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PC Magazine
October 10, 2007
John Brandon |
Computing a Cure Scientists are building digital libraries of drug data to fight potential outbreaks.   |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2007
John Bonner |
Brain Mood Hormone Linked to Milk Production Milk production in mammalian breast tissue is regulated by serotonin - the same hormone that acts in the brain to control a person's mood, according to researchers. |
Reason
October 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You? The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest." |
Reason
October 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Ties That Bind Considering that thousands of clinical trials are undertaken every year, it's reassuring that the pharmaceutical industry's critics can turn up only a few instances of bad behavior caused by financial conflicts of interest during the last two decades. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2007
Michael Gross |
Blood Transfusion Risk Explained Two research groups have discovered that nitric oxide disappears rapidly from banked blood -- a finding that may explain recent medical studies showing that blood transfusions can sometimes increase a patient's chances of dying from a lack of oxygen. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
MRI Sensitivity Boosted by 10000 Times A technique that significantly boosts the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging is on the verge of clinical trials which, if successful, could allow doctors to assess the effects of cancer drugs on a tumor within hours. |
Science News
October 6, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Food for Thought: Diminishing Obesity's Risks Mouse data suggest that, properly managed, obesity can be benign. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
Chemistry World
October 3, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Spicing up Pain Relief Scientists in the US have developed an anaesthetic that can completely block pain without causing numbness. The technique uses capsaicin - the active ingredient in chilli peppers - to target only pain-sensing neurons, and not those associated with feeling or movement. |
Chemistry World
October 3, 2007
Jonathan Edwards |
The Sourest Points with Sweetest Terms Japanese scientists have shown for the first time how the protein curculin performs its unique trick of turning sour tastes sweet. |
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