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Medicine and Technology
(a monthly brownbag series)
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(email suggestions-questions to either Tim Cannon, Gary Kwiecinski, Ed Kosmahl,
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September 28th, Brennan 205
Science,
Medicine,
Technology
Science
- Water shortage 'a global problem'
- Secrets of ocean birth laid bare
- 'More disasters' for warmer world
- Frozen mice 'have healthy pups'
- Experts meet to decide Pluto fate
- Younger siblings 'more amusing'
- Rare bats take to new villa roost
- Greenland melt 'speeding up'
- Overweight 'top world's hungry'
- Security 'bad news for sex drive'
- Scientists find brain evolution gene
- Planets plan boosts tally to 12
- Whale fossil sports fierce teeth
- Research finds 'unique human DNA'
- Hubble glimpses faintest stars
- Japan bans 'contaminated' US rice
- Map details global water stress
- 'Ethical' stem cell lines created
- Pluto loses status as a planet
- Scientists find sourness detector
- Thera eruption was bigger still
- Seed: Men (And Sometimes Women) Lure Mates Creatively
- Fatherhood alters the structure of your brain--if you are a marmoset
- Chimps make great teachers and students
- Brain scan of nuns finds no single 'God spot' in the brain, Université de Montréal study finds
- Top scientist's fears for climate
- Supernova captured in 'real time'
- Iraq marshes' recovery 'in doubt'
- Wanted: Assistant for Stephen Hawking
- Chinese drought affects millions
- Alarm sounded for farmland birds
- Why doesn't America believe in evolution? - being-human
- Special Report on Evolution
- Ferocious ants bite like a bullet
- Pluto vote 'hijacked' in revolt
- Climate changes shift springtime
- Galapagos 'face species threat'
- Maths genius declines top prize
- Team finds 'proof' of dark matter
- Taller people are smarter: study - Yahoo! News
- NASA - SMART-1 to Crash the Moon
- Professor-Turned-Pope Leads a Seminar on Evolution
- Clarification Issued on Stem Cell Work
- Mother deer cannot recognize the calls of their own offspring but sheep and reindeer can
- Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human - From mice to monkeys to chimps to people, a brain-protein gene pumps up.
- Focus on climate adaptation urged
- Rover nears crater science trove
- Earth-like planets may be common
- Methane bubbles climate trouble
- Men Smarter than Women, Scientist Claims
- Why adolescents put themselves first - being-human
- The nose knows
- Researchers Offer a New Date for Neanderthals’ Last Stand
- Ants' own chemical may control them
- Colourful beginning for humanity
- Probe to study mighty explosions
- Drastic' shrinkage in Arctic ice
- 'Oldest' New World writing found
- New El Nino sparks weather fears
- Giant Bat-Eating Centipede
- Seeds 200 years old breathe again
- Science And Salvation - washingtonpost.com
- Flying sex pest silences the crickets - life - 21 September 2006 - New Scientist
- news @ nature.com - Brain electrodes conjure up ghostly visions - Simple stimulation may underpin complex mental illusions.
- Pregnancy and lactation may affect maternal behavior and coping skills
- Little 'Lucy' fossil found - Toddler hominin has arms for swinging and legs for walking.
- Science/Nature | New ring discovered around Saturn
Medicine
Top, Science, Medicine,
Technology
- Early Alzheimer's skin test hope
- Herceptin 'linked to heart risk'
- UK experts say Indian Coke 'safe'
- Mornings 'best time for surgery'
- Protein 'may stop asthma attacks'
- Hormone 'connected to death risk'
- Autism 'affects all of the brain'
- Stroke risk peaks every 12 hours
- US criticised for HIV aid effort
- Bluetongue virus hits Dutch farm
- HIV 'switches off' immune cells
- Snails poison diners in Beijing
- 'Simple' way to test for anthrax
- 'Friendly bacteria' gum for teeth
- Tobacco companies lose civil case
- US backs morning-after pill sales
- Tea 'healthier' drink than water
- Sterilisation 'may not kill CJD'
- Joke generator raises a chuckle
- Alzheimer mice memories restored
- Brain enzyme treatment relieves memory lapse in Alzheimer's mice
- Ever-happy mice may hold key to new treatment of depression
- Cancer cell 'executioner' found
- Chimps make great teachers and students
- Invention: Tongue-o-vision
- Juices 'may cut Alzheimer's risk'
- Older dads boost risk of autistic children - health
- UCLA study uncovers new risk factor for schizophrenia
- Global alert over deadly new TB strains
- Nerves Conquer Pain
- 'X' marks the spot in hunt for autism genes
- Thoughts of woman in 'waking coma' revealed - Brain
scans of vegetative patient ignites debate over her awareness.
- DEA Revises Rule on Prescribing Painkillers
- HIV drug can stop cervical cancer
- Semen 'may fuel cervical cancer'
- Gene therapy rids men of cancer
- Low vitamin E linked to asthma
- Vitamin D call for Asian children
- Menopause alternative remedy fear
- Fears over homeopathy regulation
- Spain extends smoking restriction
- Cancer jab 'stops 75% of deaths'
- Children of alcoholics 'damaged'
- 'Donor eggs for science' debated
- Vegetative patient 'communicates
- Premature ejaculation drug hope
- Alzheimer's 'self-defence found'
- Scientists reveal how H5N1 kills
- Rotating-shift work tied to prostate cancer risk
- UCLA neuroscience research leads to a possible treatment for Diabetes
- Calorie restriction in non-human primates may prevent and reduce Alzheimer's disease neuropathology
- Vitamin D cuts pancreatic cancer risk
- ncreased dietary fish oil may prevent many deaths
- Food allergies 'gone in 10 years
- Call to ban pro-suicide websites
- 'Too few' sports doctors for 2012
- Mandarins 'cut liver cancer risk'
- Alzheimer's drug also combats brain injuries
- || DukeMedNews || Nicotine Lessens Symptoms of Depression in Nonsmokers
- Hope for tuberculosis blood test
- Seaweed anti-obesity tablet hope
- Green tea cuts fatal illness risk
- 13% of young men have chlamydia'
- DNA blood test 'could save lives'
- WHO backs DDT for malaria control
- Drug 'could slash diabetes cases'
- Cancer drug slows muscular dystrophy in mice
- Botox therapy 'may be addictive'
- Vitamin 'may block MS disability'
- Post-traumatic stress drug hope
- Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?
- Mosquitoes' sweet tooth targeted
- Have Friends, Will Slumber
- Study explores 'manic' thinking
- Tone deafness shows up in the brain - Can't sing? It could all be down to a lack of white matter.
- Mouse Brain Mapped in Detail
- 'Egg on your face is dangerous'
- Alzheimer’s may 'seed' itself like mad cow disease
- 'Pack-a-day crisp habit' warning
- Food chemicals 'may harm humans'
- EU approves cervical cancer jab
- Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes
- Mother's Stress May Affect Fetus - washingtonpost.com
Technology Top, Science,
Medicine, Technology
- 'Toxic ship' docks in Indian port
- Dell recalls 4m laptop batteries
- Time lists 50 'coolest websites'
- Unhappy eBay traders boycott site
- File-sharing 'darknet' unveiled
- Hackers target latest Windows fix
- Speedy silicon sets world record
- Shuttle ready for August launch
- Artificial muscles light up TVs
- Games industry is 'failing women'
- Apple recall on laptop batteries
- Nasa names new spacecraft 'Orion'
- Wearable Computer Gives Eyes to Blind
- Google to target software market
- Microsoft tackles anti-copy hole
- Not as wiki as it used to be
- Building a skyscraper after 9/11
- Zune challenge beckons for iPod
- SanDisk Drops a Flash Bomb
- Spammers manipulate stock markets
- Microsoft fixes flawed bug patch
- PlayStation 3 tackles world ills
- Toshiba to make Microsoft's Zune
- Innovators seek greener PC future
- 'Adware' attack on privacy tool
- Google makes novels free to print
- Hackers steal AT&T customer data
- A380 starts passenger flight test
- 'Chatty George' talks himself up
- November launch date for HD-DVD
- Fastest supercomputer to be built
- Airline bans 'fire fear' laptops
- Google opens up 200 years of news
- Students given free MP3 players
- Shedding light on the world
- Security breach hits online world
- Nintendo Wii to make debut in US
- 3D TV 'could be three years away'
- Projector size of sugar cube made
- Roll-up screens 'moving closer'
- Yahoo 'to buy Facebook for $1bn'
- Double disc might end hi-def war
- Browser flaw seen on porn sites
- Amazing video - self-parking car!
Top, Science,
Medicine, Technology