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• Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  December 22, 2009 -- (BRONX, NY) -- Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a new approach for treating and healing skin abscesses caused by bacteria resistant to most antibiotics. The study appears in the journal PLoS One.
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• Cool Green Morning: Friday, December 18

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 503
  Five great green stories to distract you while you wait anxiously for the latest news from Copenhagen : Weird Solar Device of the Day goes to…this solar-powered, Joseph Cornell-like live insect theater box ( Treehugger ). Buy an electric car for less than $900 ? You can in Oklahoma through New Year’s ...
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• Study finds orphanages are viable options for some children

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University study of more than 3,000 orphaned and abandoned children in five Asian and African countries has found that children in institutional orphanages fare as well or better than those who live in the community. Link:  ...
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• Public Access to Publicly Funded Research – Be Heard at the White House

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 487
  I’m cross-posting this from everyone , the community blog of PLoS ONE, who are asking all those with an interest to involve themselves in this initiative from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, (OSTP) , who state the following: Yesterday we announced the launch of the Public Access ...
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• DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  The DNA of a 1st century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. Details of the research will be published December 16 in the PloS ONE Journal. ...
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• MCG scientists decode memory-forming brain cell conversations

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  The conversations neurons have as they form and recall memories have been decoded by Medical College of Georgia scientists. Link:  http://www.mcg.edu
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• MRSA leads to worse outcomes, staggering expenses for surgical patients

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  DURHAM, N.C. -- Post-surgical infections significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and death and cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who conducted the largest study of its kind to date. ...
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• New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers, however, have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious virus particles can bind to the surface of red blood cells isolated from each of 30 normal ...
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• UCLA researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV

  
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  Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells — a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases. ...
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• Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies

  
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  Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according to findings reported Dec. 3 by researchers, including two from Arizona State University, in the ...
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• Music and speech based on human biology

  
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  DURHAM, N.C. -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.
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• Why Do People Vote? III

  
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  Even after I left the field of rational choice theory of politics and became an evolutionary psychologist, the paradox of voter turnout (and my own theoretical resolution of the paradox) continued to haunt me.  Why do people act like their vote made a difference in the past electoral outcome? From an evolutionary ...
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• Food Waste in US and its environmental impact

  
  Pro-science — Authority: 109
  PLoS One has an interesting article The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact by Kevin D. Hall et al Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 25

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 503
  There’s a lot to be thankful this morning, readers. The majority of Americans believe that climate change is happening , and want to do something about it.  Someday, your cell phone’s waste heat could actually make its battery last longer .  There’s hope for a rise in e-recycling . Something else we’re ...
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• Researchers identify proteins in lung cancer cells that may provide potential drug targets

  
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  (Boston) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Boston University Biomedical Engineering Department have identified a number of proteins whose activation allows them to distinguish between cancer and normal cells with almost 97 percent accuracy.
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• Montana State University study explores violent world of raptors

  
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  BOZEMAN, Mont. -- A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.
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