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• How brain encodes memories (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara have discovered how the brain encodes memories. According to researchers, the finding could eventually lead to the development of new drugs for diseases like Alzheimer’s.The researchers have uncovered a central process in encoding ...
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• Merry Christmas? Not for many in the US

  
  THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DR CASTRO — Authority: 128
  December 2009 California Homeless The truth can hide for a little while, but eventually all comes out to light. The mainstream media loves to tell us how good the economy is, "recovery is underway", "recession is over", lies, all lies paid for by the US government, Goldman "Sucks", JP Morgan, Bernanke, Geithner, ...
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• Scientists figure out how brain encodes memories

  
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  Washington, Dec 25 (IANS) Scientists have figured out how brain encodes memories and this could help develop new drugs for brain disorders.The University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) team is the first to uncover a central process in encoding memories, which occurs at the level of synapse, connecting neurons with ...
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• Molecular switch to thwart Huntington’s disease found

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 25 (ANI): American researchers have discovered a molecular switch to prevent Huntington’s disease from developing in mice.The study carried out by scientists from UCLA has appeared in the December 24 edition of the journal Neuron.The neurodegenerative genetic disorder impairs the ability of patients ...
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• Link between protein transport, spinal cord development established

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 25 (ANI): American scientists have broken new ground by discovering a new link between protein transport and spinal cord development in mice.Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a team from the University of California, Berkeley, conducted the study.David Ginty, professor of ...
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• Habitats will have to keep pace with climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 25 (IANS) From beetles to barnacles, pikas to pine warblers, many species are already responding to shifting climate regimes.But how fast will they — and their habitats — have to move to keep pace with global climate change over the next century? In a new study, a team of scientists including Healy ...
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• Novel therapeutic target for Huntington’s disease identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 25 (ANI): Scientists from University of California, Irvine have identified a potential therapeutic target for Huntington’s disease.In Huntington’s disease, a mutated protein in the body becomes toxic to brain cells. Researches have shown that a small region adjacent to the mutated segment plays a ...
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• Astronomers claim discovery of most distant galaxies yet

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, December 25 (ANI): In a new research, astronomers have found tentative evidence of the most distant galaxies yet, which have redshifts of around 10.In the near infrared, astronomers can detect galaxies that are so distant, and receding so quickly, that their light is stretched longer - or redder - than visible ...
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• Boston Scientific (Again) Settles - This Time, Charges of Kickbacks Disguised as Clinical Studies

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 514
  One would think that the stories about bad behavior by health care organizations would quiet down just before Christmas, but no... As reported by the AP : U.S. attorneys in Boston said Wednesday heart device maker Boston Scientific will pay $22 million to resolve allegations its Guidant division paid kickbacks to ...
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• Scheimpflug imaging. Partial coherence interferometry keratometry. “… prior to laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  “To evaluate the interchangeability of a Scheimpflug camera (Pentacam, Oculus) and a partial coherence interferometry keratometer (IOLMaster, Zeiss) for measures of keratometry and anterior chamber depth (ACD).” 1 Researchers from G B Bietti Eye Foundation-IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Studio Oculistico d’Azeglio, ...
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• Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, December 24 (ANI): A new study by University of California, Berkeley, seismologists, has suggested that the faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to ...
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• How brain encodes memories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 24 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara have discovered how the brain encodes memories. According to researchers, the finding could eventually lead to the development of new drugs for diseases like Alzheimer’s.The researchers have uncovered a central process in encoding ...
  2 days ago

• Prokaryotic microbes. Microbe genomes. “… most of them among the small number that cause disease, or that do interesting things such as producing biofuels.’

  
  Biotech — Authority: 125
  A Release dated December 23, sourced from University of California – Davis informs:‘About a thousand prokaryote genomes have been sequenced to date, most of them among the small number that cause disease, or that do interesting things such as producing biofuels.’More from the Release dated December 23, sourced ...
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• Frank H. Wu Set to Take Over U.C. Hastings Law School Next Year

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 141
  California’s fifth or sixth-best law school will be getting a new leader as of July 1, 2010, when Howard University’s Frank H. Wu will become the dean at  U.C. Hastings in San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin .  Frank’s no stranger to the bay area, having taught at Stanfoo and also having worked for ...
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• Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems from a surprising source -- ancient carbon contained in glacial runoff, researchers from four universities and the U.S. Forest Service report in the December 24, 2009, issue of the journal Nature *.
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• Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little effort, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, seismologists.
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• Opening new frontiers: First volume of microbial encyclopedia published

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  WALNUT CREEK, CA -- The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) microbes in, on, around, and under it, comprised of an unknown but very large number of distinct species.
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• Climate change puts ecosystems on the run

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  Global warming is causing climate belts to shift toward the poles and to higher elevations. To keep pace with these changes, the average ecosystem will need to shift about a quarter mile each year, says a new study led by scientists at the Carnegie Institution.
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• Winter Solstice themed SEO poisoning leads to malware – Help Net Security

  
  Best Webmasters — Authority: 139
  Winter Solstice themed SEO poisoning leads to malware – Help Net Security Any occasion seems to be good lately to launch a SEO poisoning campaign. Zscaler reports that searching for information about the Winter Solstice (21st of December) has been the latest subject whose search results have provided links to ...
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• Weighing Medical Costs of End-of-Life Care

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center is confronting a hard truth: It’s difficult to know which critically ill patients will benefit from its high-intensity approach to medicine.
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