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Harvard nutrition expert offers family physician group no-cost alternative to funding from Coca-Cola

Leading Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) nutrition and health researcher Walter Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H., has written a letter to the President-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) offering an alternative to the organization's decision, announced in October, to accept a six-figure grant from the Coca-Cola Company to develop web content on beverages and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Nov 12, 2009

Technology

Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2009 -- Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually.

Nov 12, 2009

Health

CSHL team solves structure of NMDA receptor unit that could be drug target for neurological diseases

Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports on Thursday their success in solving the molecular structure of a key portion of a cellular receptor i

Nov 12, 2009

Earth & Environment

UT Knoxville and ORNL researchers turn algae into high-temperature hydrogen source

KNOXVILLE -- In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an

Nov 12, 2009

Health

Researchers discover mechanism of insulin production that can lead to better treatment for diabetes

Jerusalem, November 12, 2009 -- How a specific gene within the pancreas affects secretion of insulin has been discovered by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration wi

Nov 12, 2009

Health

Hemianopiacs have difficulty detecting pedestrians while driving

Boston, MA -- Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists have found that--when tested in a driving simulator--patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) have

Nov 12, 2009

Health

African-Americans with colorectal cancer have poorer outcomes, lower survival rates

CHICAGO (November 12, 2009) -- New research published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that African-American patients with colorectal cancer ar

Nov 12, 2009

Health

Mechanical ventilation for patients with lung damage don't always work as planned

TORONTO, Ont., November 12, 2009 -- As more Canadians are diagnosed with H1N1 influenza infection, some will be admitted to hospital.

Nov 12, 2009

Uncategorized

how can EVERY coincidence really not only have a logical story to0 long to tell or learn all on one's own?

i can see why somethings are known to not be able 2 B explained with scientific tools but that doesn't make them totally unscientifically proved through philosophy and its FAMILY of things of thought*

Nov 11, 2009

Health

Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body

AMES, Iowa -- James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at

Nov 11, 2009

Health

Texas Children's discharges first pediatric patient with implanted mechanical heart device

HOUSTON -- (Nov.

Nov 11, 2009

Technology

*outdated"new"scientific discoveries and what they did and helped me to discover in my mind*

i can understand what i am taught or shown that has already been explained in most cases,but somethings i cannot find the answer to!

Nov 11, 2009

Health

Neural mechanism reveals why dyslexic brain has trouble distinguishing speech from noise

New research reveals that children with developmental dyslexia have a deficit in a brain mechanism involved in the perception of speech in a noisy environment.

Nov 11, 2009

Health

Aileron collaborates study in Nature: Stapled peptides inhibit Notch1 transcription factor

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- November 11, 2009 -- Aileron Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company leading the development of a new class of drugs called Stapled Peptides, announced today that its collabora

Nov 11, 2009