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245 articles from FRIDAY 13.1.2012

• FRIDAY 13. JANUARY, 2012
• 06:00 Discovery of plant 'nourishing gene' brings hope for increased crop seed yield and food security

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  University of Warwick scientists have discovered a "nourishing gene" which controls the transfer of nutrients from plant to seed -- a significant step which could help increase global food production.  

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• 06:00 Emotional news framing affects public response to crises, MU study finds

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  Glen Cameron, the Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research and professor of strategic communication at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, along with Hyo Kim of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, found that the way in which news coverage of a crisis is framed affects the public's emotional response toward the company involved.  

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• 06:00 Energy-saving chaperon Hsp90

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  A special group of proteins, the so-called chaperons, helps other proteins to obtain their correct conformation. Until now scientists supposed that hydrolyzing ATP provides the energy for the large conformational changes of chaperon Hsp90. Now a research team from the Nanosystems Initiative Munich could prove that Hsp90 utilizes thermal fluctuations as the driving force for its conformational changes. The renowned journal PNAS reports on their findings.  

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• 06:00 Faulty proteins may prove significant in identifying new treatments for ovarian cancer

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  A constellation of defective proteins suspected in causing a malfunction in the body's ability to repair its own DNA could be the link scientists need to prove a new class of drugs will be effective in treating a broad range of ovarian cancer patients, an Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute study found.  

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• 06:00 Fly named in honor of Beyonce

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  A previously unnamed species of horse fly whose appearance is dominated by its glamorous golden lower abdomen has been named in honor of American pop diva, Beyonce -- a member of the former group Destiny's Child, that recorded the 2001 hit single, "Bootylicious."  

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• 06:00 High-speed CMOS sensors provide better images

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  Conventional CMOS image sensors are not suitable for low-light applications such as fluorescence, since large pixels arranged in a matrix do not support high readout speeds. A new optoelectronic component speeds up this process. It has already been patented.  

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• 06:00 I recognize you! But how did I do it?

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  Are you someone who easily recognizes everyone you've ever met? Or maybe you struggle, even with familiar faces? It is already known that we are better at recognizing faces from our own race but researchers have only recently questioned how we assimilate the information we use to recognize people.  

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• 06:00 Keeping an eye on the Universe

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  Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars and other celestial objects - 200 million in total.  

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• 06:00 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP reveals lunar surface features

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  New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness. LAMP, developed by Southwest Research Institute, uses a novel method to peer into these so-called permanently shadowed regions, making visible the invisible.  

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• 06:00 Managing private and public adaptation to climate change

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  New research has found that individuals and the private sector have an important role to play in the provision of public policies to help society adapt to the impacts of climate change.  

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• 06:00 NIH study shows 32 million Americans have autoantibodies that target their own tissues

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  More than 32 million people in the United States have autoantibodies, which are proteins made by the immune system that target the body's tissues and define a condition known as autoimmunity, a study shows. The first nationally representative sample looking at the prevalence of the most common type of autoantibody, known as antinuclear antibodies (ANA), found that the frequency of ANA is highest among women, older individuals, and African-Americans.  

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• 06:00 Predicting the value of indexing symptoms for ovarian cancer

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  The use of symptom indices to identify patients with symptoms associated with ovarian cancer who may need further screening is increasing in both the UK and the US in an attempt to promote earlier diagnosis, but they may need to be reassessed in order to help better detect cancer, according to a study published Jan. 13 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  

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• 06:00 Researchers identify possible receptor for key breast cancer regulator

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  A key protein potentially involved in regulating breast cancer progression has been identified by researchers at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. Led by professor Costel Darie, the team worked to identify the binding partner of Tumor Differentiating Factor, a pituitary hormone that had previously been shown to reduce cancer progression in breast cancer cells.  

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• 06:00 Sandia, UK partners publish groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates in Science magazine

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  In a breakthrough paper published in this week's issue of Science magazine, researchers from Sandia's Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester and Bristol University report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry.  

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• 06:00 Software for analyzing digital pathology images proving its usefulness

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  As tissue slides are more routinely digitized to aid interpretation, a software program whose design was led by the University of Michigan Health System is proving its utility.  

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• 06:00 Superconducting current limiter guarantees electricity supply of the Boxberg power plant

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  For the first time, a superconducting current limiter based on YBCO strip conductors has now been installed at a power plant. At the Boxberg power plant of Vattenfall, the current limiter protects the grid for own consumption that is designed for 12,000 volts and 800 amperes against damage due to short circuits and voltage peaks.  

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• 06:00 Surprising results from smoke inhalation study

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  A study in the Journal of Burn Care & Research includes some unexpected findings about the immune systems of smoke-inhalation patients.Contrary to expectations, patients who died from their injuries had lower inflammatory responses in their lungs than patients who survived.  

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• 06:00 The concept of 'overactive bladder' serves better commercial rather than patient interests

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  In an article published in a prestigious journal in the field of urology, two Finnish experts question the concept of the "overactive bladder syndrome." According to researchers, the definition of this syndrome is mostly beneficial to those with commercial interests, while from the patient perspective and for the development of treatments, it may be detrimental.  

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• 06:00 The current crisis follows the same patterns as in 1991

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  A study at the University of Alcala, Spain, has compared the employment crisis of 1991-1994 with the current crisis from 2007 to 2010, as well as the labor reforms that took place in 1994 and 2010 respectively. Its results show that both the evolution of labor market indicators and the response of financial authorities have been quite similar in terms of timing and the design of measures.  

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• 06:00 Walk this way: Scientists and MBL physiology students describe how a motor protein 'steps out'

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  Scientists at Harvard Medical School and from the MBL Physiology Course have discovered the unique "drunken sailor" gait of dynein, a protein that is critical for the function of every cell in the body and whose malfunction has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Lou Gehrig's disease and Parkinson's disease.  

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• 06:00 Wearing contact lenses can affect glaucoma measurements

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  Wearing contact lenses can affect measurements to detect glaucoma, a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study has found.  

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• 06:00 Zebrafish may help speed drug discovery

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  Tiny zebrafish just may give scientists one solution to information overload in the search for new drugs therapies.  

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• 05:50 Chicago News Cooperative: Robotic Technology to Help Understand and Treat Strokes

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  Dr. Julius Dewald is trying to meld medicine, science and engineering to better understand paralysis from strokes and how robotic therapy might help people.
  
   

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• 04:24 Microsoft's departure signals CES's decline

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  Monday marked the end of an era at the Consumer Electronics Show, the tech industry's gigantic annual gadget fest in Las Vegas.  

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• 04:24 Occasional marijuana use doesn't harm lungs, study finds

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  Smoking marijuana on an occasional basis does not appear to significantly damage the lungs, according to a new study.  

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