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• WEDNESDAY 22. MAY, 2013
• 06:00 'Boys will be boys' in US, but not in Asia

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  A new study shows there is a gender gap when it comes to behavior and self-control in American young children -- one that does not appear to exist in children in Asia.  

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• 06:00 2 miniature spider species discovered in Giant Panda Sanctuaries of China

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  Two tiny, bizarre shaped spider species have been discovered in the Sichuan province and Chongqing city of China. The two species belong to the understudied Mysmenidae family, which prove difficult to find due to their small size (under 2 mm in total) and their cryptic lifestyle habits. The study was published in the open access journal Zookeys.  

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• 06:00 A pan-European study: Signs of motor disorders can appear years before disease manifestation

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  It is known that signs of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease can appear years before the disease becomes manifest; these signs take the form of subtle changes in the brain and behavior of individuals affected. For the first time, an international group of researchers led by the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Bonn University Hospital has proven the existence of such signatures for motor disorders belonging to the group of "spinocerebellar ataxias."  

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• 06:00 Addiction as a disorder of decision-making

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  New research shows that craving drugs such as nicotine can be visualized in specific regions of the brain that are implicated in determining the value of actions, in planning actions and in motivation. Dr. Alain Dagher, from McGill University, suggests abnormal interactions between these decision-making brain regions could underlie addiction. These results were presented at the 2013 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience -- Association Canadienne des Neurosciences.  

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• 06:00 Addiction to unhealthy foods could help explain the global obesity epidemic

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  Research presented today shows that high-fructose corn syrup can cause behavioral reactions in rats similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine. These results, presented by addiction expert Francesco Leri, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Guelph, suggest food addiction could explain, at least partly, the current global obesity epidemic. These results were presented at the 2013 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience -- Association Canadienne des Neurosciences.  

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• 06:00 Alleviating hunger in the US -- researcher says, it's a SNAP

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  University of Illinois researcher Craig Gundersen says that the cornerstone of our efforts to alleviate food insecurity should be to encourage more people to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) "because it works."According to Gundersen, SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a great social safety net program and with some additional improvements could be even more successful at reducing the number of food-insecure households.  

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• 06:00 Ants and carnivorous plants conspire for mutualistic feeding

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  An insect-eating pitcher plant teams up with ants to prevent mosquito larvae from stealing its nutrients, according to research published May 22 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Mathias Scharmann and colleagues from the University of Cambridge and the University Brunei Darussalam.  

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• 06:00 Baby's life saved with groundbreaking 3-D printed device that restored his breathing

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  A specially-designed tracheal splint, made from a biopolymer using 3D printing, was created and used at the University of Michigan to save a baby from life-threatening tracheobronchomalacia.  

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• 06:00 Brain can be trained in compassion, study shows

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  A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, published Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, investigates whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion.  

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• 06:00 Calcium supplements linked to longer lifespans in women

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  Taking a calcium supplement of up to 1,000 mg per day can help women live longer, according to a recent study accepted for publication in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.  

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• 06:00 Calcium supplements linked to longer lifespans in women

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  Taking a calcium supplement of up to 1,000 mg per day can help women live longer, according to a study whose lead author was Lisa Langsetmo, a Ph.D. research associate at McGill University, and whose senior author was professor David Goltzman, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and researcher in the Musculoskeletal Disorders axis at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.  

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• 06:00 Calorie information in fast food restaurants used by 40 percent of 9-18 year olds when making food choices

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  A new study published online today in the Journal of Public Health has found that of young people who visited fast food or chain restaurants in the US in 2010, girls and youth who were obese were more likely to use calorie information given in the restaurants to inform their food choices.  

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• 06:00 Captive-bred wallabies may carry antibiotic resistant bacteria into wild populations

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  Endangered brush-tail rock wallabies raised in captive breeding programs carry antibiotic resistance genes in their gut bacteria and may be able to transmit these genes into wild populations, according to research published May 22 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Michelle Power and colleagues from Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia.  

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• 06:00 Children of married parents less likely to be obese

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  Children living in households where the parents are married are less likely to be obese, according to new research from Rice University and the University of Houston.  

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• 06:00 Costs to treat stroke in America may double by 2030

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  Stroke costs are predicted to more than double in the next 20 years. Americans 45-64 years old are expected to have the highest increase in stroke incidence.  

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• 06:00 Detecting mirror molecules

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  Harvard physicists have developed a novel technique that can detect molecular variants in chemical mixtures -- greatly simplifying a process that is one of the most important, though time-consuming, processes in analytical chemistry.  

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• 06:00 DNA damage: The dark side of respiration

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  Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing of subunits in the double helix.  

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• 06:00 Drought makes Borneo's trees flower at the same time

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  A drought period causes the trees in Borneo's tropical forests to flower at the same time. Evolutionary biologists from the University of Zurich have identified two genes that indicate when the plants are about to flower. By monitoring these genes specifically, scientists are better able to predict when mass flowering will occur. This means that plant seeds can be collected in a targeted manner and used for reforestation.  

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• 06:00 Enzyme-activating antibodies revealed as marker for most severe form of rheumatoid arthritis

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  In a series of lab experiments designed to unravel the workings of a key enzyme widely considered a possible trigger of rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that in the most severe cases of the disease, the immune system makes a unique subset of antibodies that have a disease-promoting role.  

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• 06:00 Eyes on the prey

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  For most animal species, moving objects play a major role in the processing of sensory impressions in the brain, as they often signal the presence of a welcome prey or an imminent threat. This is also true of the zebrafish larva, which has to react to the movements of its prey. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have investigated how the brain uses the information from the visual system for the execution of quicker movements.  

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• 06:00 Fast new, 1-step genetic engineering technology

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  A new, streamlined approach to genetic engineering drastically reduces the time and effort needed to insert new genes into bacteria, the workhorses of biotechnology, scientists are reporting. Published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology, the method paves the way for more rapid development of designer microbes for drug development, environmental cleanup and other activities.  

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• 06:00 Fetch, boy! Study shows homes with dogs have more types of bacteria

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  New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado shows that households with dogs are home to more types of bacteria -- including bacteria that are rarely found in households that do not have dogs. The finding is part of a larger study to improve our understanding of the microscopic life forms that live in our homes.  

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• 06:00 Fish oil may help the heart beat mental stress

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  Why is fish oil good for the heart? A new study suggests that this omega 3 fatty acid-rich nutrient could blunt some cardiovascular effects of mental stress.  

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• 06:00 Fish oil supplements may help fight against Type 2 diabetes

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  Widely-used fish oil supplements modestly increase amounts of a hormone that is associated with lower risk of diabetes and heart disease, according to a study accepted for publication in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.  

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• 06:00 Footwear's (carbon) footprint

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  Study finds the bulk of shoes' carbon footprint comes from manufacturing processes.  

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