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Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth
Although morphine has been the
gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells. Two new studies advance that argument and demonstrate how shielding lung ...
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'Fingerprinting' RFID tags: Researchers develop anti-counterfeiting technology
Engineering researchers have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive
radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rather than information stored on them, will prevent the production of ...
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'Fly paper' created to capture circulating
cancer cells
Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor. These cells, known as circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, can provide critical information for examining and diagnosing cancer metastasis, determining ...
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Nutrigenomics researchers replicate gene interaction with saturated fat
Rsearchers have identified a gene-diet interaction that appears to influence body weight and have replicated their findings in three independent studies. Men and women carrying the CC genotype demonstrated higher
body mass index scores and a higher incidence of obesity, but only if they consumed a ...
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Bees can learn differences in food's temperature, study finds
Biologists have discovered that honeybees can discriminate between food at different temperatures, an ability that may assist bees in locating the warm, sugar-rich nectar or
high-protein pollen produced by many flowers.
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Started 6 days, 15 hours ago (2009-11-21 00:28:00)
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Software knowledge unnecessarily lost
All too often the knowledge acquired by
software architects is unnecessarily lost. Moreover, it is difficult to simply and quickly assess the quality of software. According to researchers these problems can, however, be easily resolved. They investigated how architectural knowledge can be better disseminated and retrieved.
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Saliva proteins change as women age
In a step toward using human saliva to tell whether those stiff joints, memory lapses, and other telltale signs of aging are normal or
red flags for disease, scientists are describing how the protein content of women's saliva change with advancing age. The discovery could lead to a simple, noninvasive test for better diagnosing and ...
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Brain disease 'resistance gene' evolves in
Papua New Guinea community; could offer in
A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by scientists in the UK.
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Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports
Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution -- a well-recognized problem at major airports -- may pose an important but largely overlooked
health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems...
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Barn personnel experience higher-than-
average rates of respiratory symptoms
The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study.
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