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293 articles from FRIDAY 1.6.2012

• FRIDAY 1. JUNE, 2012
• 06:00 JCI early table of contents for June 1, 2012

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  This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, June 1, 2012, in the JCI: "Improving obesity-induced insulin sensitivity," "The right combination: overcoming drug resistance in cancer," "Finding new treatment options in inflammatory brain diseases," "Breathing abnormalities uncovered in Leigh Syndrome," and more.  

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• 06:00 LICR highlights a dozen-plus abstracts at ASCO

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  Scientists from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) will share research findings from more than a dozen studies both as posters and as part of the published proceedings during the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) taking place June 1-5 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.  

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• 06:00 Low-fiber diet puts adolescents at higher risk of cardiovascular disease

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  Adolescents who don't eat enough fiber tend to have bigger bellies and higher levels of inflammatory factors in their blood, both major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, researchers report.  

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• 06:00 Magnets may help prevent rare complication of spinal anesthesia

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  A simple technique using local anesthetic mixed with magnetized "ferrofluids" may provide a new approach to preventing a rare but serious complication of spinal anesthesia, reports the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.  

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• 06:00 More than 9-in-10 ED patients who receive CT of the abdomen and pelvis are clinically complex

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  The overwhelming majority (93.8 percent) of patients undergoing computed tomography of the abdomen and pelvis in the emergency department (ED) setting are classified as clinically complex, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Clinically complex is used to describe patients who are, based on documentation of their ED physician, much sicker than others.  

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• 06:00 NASA infrared satellite imagery shows Tropical Storm Mawar strengthening

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  The infrared instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured temperature data on Tropical Storm Mawar in the western North Pacific Ocean and showed that the cloud top temperatures were growing colder. That's an indication that the thunderstorms within are higher and stronger -- a sign of strengthening.  

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• 06:00 NASA mission sending unmanned aircraft over hurricanes this year

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  Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information about hurricane formation and intensity changes.  

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• 06:00 Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping project

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  Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory reached an important milestone today, publicly releasing the first installment out of 500 terabytes of data so far collected in their pathbreaking project to construct the first whole-brain wiring diagram of a vertebrate brain, that of the mouse.  

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• 06:00 New compound could become 'cool blue' for energy efficiency in buildings

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  A new type of durable, environmentally-benign blue pigment discovered at Oregon State University has also been found to have unusual characteristics in reflecting heat -- it's a "cool blue" compound that could become important in new approaches to saving energy in buildings.  

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• 06:00 New finding important to heart health, also changed faculty member's entire research path

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  Medical scientist Howard Young's research has taken a dramatic, unexpected turn in the last few months, thanks to a serendipitous chain of events that could lead to a genetic test that can predict heart failure in certain people before it happens.  

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• 06:00 New therapy on the horizon for ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer

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  A new compound that targets anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) non-small cell lung cancer is well-tolerated by patients and is already showing early signs of activity, including in patients who no longer respond to crizotinib -- the only approved ALK inhibitor. Results of this Novartis-sponsored sudy will be presented by a researcher from Fox Chase Cancer Center during the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on Sunday, June 3.  

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• 06:00 New understanding of terrestrial formation has significant and far reaching future implications

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  The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to three billion years ago, the theory isn't sufficient in explaining the dynamics of the earth and crust formation before that point and through to the earliest formation of planet, some 4.6 billion years ago.  

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• 06:00 Noninvasive brain stimulation shown to impact walking patterns

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  In a step towards improving rehabilitation for patients with walking impairments, researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute found that noninvasive stimulation of the cerebellum, an area of the brain known to be essential in adaptive learning, helped healthy individuals learn a new walking pattern more rapidly. The findings suggest that cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation may be a valuable therapy tool to aid people relearning how to walk following a stroke or brain injury.  

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• 06:00 Online tool to quit smoking

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  StopAdvisor is a new Web-based smoking cessation program, which takes smokers from preparation for the target quit date to the quit date itself. In their study Robert West and Susan Michie from University College London and collaborators describe the development process of the StopAdvisor intervention. Their work appears online in Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research, published by Springer.  

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• 06:00 Optical tweezers help researchers uncover key mechanics in cellular communication

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  By using a laser microbeam technology called optical tweezers, UC Irvine and UCLA researchers have uncovered fundamental properties of the Notch network, a key molecular signaling system involved with development, cancer and cardiovascular disease.  

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• 06:00 Plant research funding crucial for the future

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  The scientific community needs to make a 10-year, $100 billion investment in food and energy security, says Carnegie's Wolf Frommer and Tom Brutnell of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in an opinion piece published in the June issue of The Scientist. They say the importance of addressing these concerns in light of a rapidly growing global population is on par with President John Kennedy's promise to put man on the moon -- a project that took a decade and cost $24 billion.  

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• 06:00 Potential new approach to regenerating skeletal muscle tissue

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  An innovative strategy for regenerating skeletal muscle tissue using cells derived from the amniotic fluid is outlined in new research published by scientists at the UCL Institute of Child Health. The paper shows that damaged muscle tissues can be treated with cells derived from the fluids which surround the fetus during development, leading to satisfactory regeneration and muscle activity.  

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• 06:00 Quantum computers will be able to simulate particle collisions

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  Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theoretical physicists can already make the claim "there's an app for that." The theorists, including one from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, have developed a mathematical algorithm that will be used by a future quantum computer to study the inner workings of the universe in ways that are far beyond the reach of even the most powerful conventional supercomputers.  

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• 06:00 Radiology programs would benefit from incorporating tablet devices into education of residents

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  Radiology programs and their residents would benefit from incorporating tablet devices, like the iPad, into residency education, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.  

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• 06:00 Researchers discover new combination of 2 previously approved FDA drugs to treat lung cancer

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  A team of researchers led by Dr. Goutham Narla at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in collaboration with scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, have discovered a previously unrecognized signaling network disrupted in lung cancer that can be turned back on by a novel combination of two previously approved FDA drugs.  

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• 06:00 Researching tomorrow's innovative textiles

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  Around 200 textile research professionals met at the end of May in St. Gallen at the international Fiber Society Spring Conference to keep abreast of current trends in research and development in this field. The host organization was Empa, where intensive work is being carried out on fiber and textile innovations.  

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• 06:00 Sandia National Laboratories' unique approach to materials allows temperature-stable circuits

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  Sandia has developed a unique materials approach to multilayered, ceramic-based, 3-D microelectronics circuits, such as those used in cell phones. The approach compensates for how changes due to temperature fluctuations affect something called the temperature coefficient of resonant frequency, a critical property of materials used in radio and microwave frequency applications.  

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• 06:00 SDO to observe Venus transit

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  On June 5, 2012, at 6:03 PM EDT, the planet Venus will do something it has done only seven times since the invention of the telescope: cross in front of the sun. This transit is among the rarest of planetary alignments and it has an odd cycle. Two such Venus transits always occur within eight years of each other and then there is a break of either 105 or 121 years before it happens again.  

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• 06:00 Skeleton key

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  Northwestern University researchers are the first to discover that very different complex networks -- ranging from global air traffic to neural networks -- share very similar backbones. By stripping each network down to its essential nodes and links, they found each network possesses a skeleton and these skeletons share common features, much like vertebrates do. The findings could be particularly useful in understanding how something -- a disease, a rumor or information -- spreads across a network.  

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• 06:00 Some butterfly species particularly vulnerable to climate change

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  A recent study of the impact of climate change on butterflies suggests that some species might adapt much better than others, with implications for the pollination and herbivory associated with these and other insect species.  

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