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Bone drugs seen helping fight cancer spread

Health & Fitness – A drug prescribed to prevent fractures in breast cancer patients whose tumors have spread may actually help slow the cancer itself, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 11:06pm

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Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere

Science – Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus's dense atmosphere.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:27am

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Team gets inside a long-suspected HIV hideout in humans

Science – Scientists have broken inside a cell long suspected of harboring HIV during drug treatment and determined it is indeed a reservoir of the virus in humans, where it remains highly infectious.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:25am

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Molecular 'clock' could predict risk for developing breast cancer

Health & Fitness – A chemical reaction in genes that control breast cancer provides a molecular clock that could one day help researchers more accurately determine a woman's risk for developing breast cancer and provide a new approach for treatment, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:22am

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Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules

Science – Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron X-ray diffraction....

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Submitted and Voted for on May 14, 2008 08:44am

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Lab-on-a-Chip Made of Paper

Gadgets & Tech – By taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper, researchers at Harvard's Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper. The result could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and abundant enough for use in the developing world.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 14, 2008 08:41am

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Hospitals' care standards 'vary'

Health & Fitness – Most patients staying overnight in hospital are happy with their care, but this masks problems in key areas and variations in standards, a survey says.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 13, 2008 10:51pm

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A startup can detect tiny traces of cancer markers in blood samples.

Science – One of the loftier dreams of personalized medicine is to detect and eliminate tumors before they become life threatening--before they are even visible on medical images. Now a Cambridge, MA, startup called Quanterix is developing an extremely sensitive protein-detection technology that can count single molecules...

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Submitted and Voted for on May 13, 2008 08:25am

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Norway island stores wind power for still days

Science – How to keep the lights on when all is still and the local windmill won't budge? A small Norwegian island testing a way to store wind-generated energy for calm days may have found the answer.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 13, 2008 08:23am

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Calories count, but what about fat, sugar and carbs?

Health & Fitness – Kevin Kopjak doesn't care much about carbs, fat, sodium or high fructose corn syrup. He generally reads only two things on a nutrition label: the portion size and the calories. He says the strategy has helped him lose and keep off 100 pounds.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 13, 2008 08:14am

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Would you allow your child to participate in medical research?

Health & Fitness – Advances in medicine -- new treatments, cures, vaccines and medicines -- are driven by research involving humans. But when it comes to medical research that requires children to be involved, researchers often struggle to find participants.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 08:43am

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Suspected cause of type 1 diabetes caught "red-handed" for the first time

Science – Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 08:15am

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Human ageing gene found in flies

Science – Working at the University of Oxford and The Open University, Dr Lynne Cox and Dr Robert Saunders have discovered a gene in fruit flies that means flies can now be used to study the effects ageing has on DNA.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 08:13am

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A New Approach to Treating Alzheimer's

Health & Fitness – Earlier this year, neurosurgeon Andres Lozano published a startling finding. He was testing deep-brain stimulation, in which electrical current is delivered directly to the brain, as a treatment for obesity. The patient's weight showed little change, but his memory improved significantly.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 12, 2008 08:10am

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Newer Prostate Cancer Treatment Similar to Traditional Surgery

Health & Fitness – According to a new study, many patients are getting a newer, minimally invasive surgery, because they think it is better than conventional surgery, even though there is little data on actual differences in outcomes between the two.

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