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Cell Therapies, More Functional and Efficient
Jan 13, 2014Harvard stem cells scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT can now engineer cells that are more easily controlled following transplantation, potentially making cell therapies, hundreds of which are currently in clinical trials ...
Tags: stem cells
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Preschool-Aged Children Require The Majority of Their Waking Day
Jan 13, 2014Preschool-aged children require the majority of their waking day, approximately 11 hours, to achieve their recommended daily physical activity, a Vanderbilt study published in Obesity found. Children in the study, ages 3-5, achieved this ...
Tags: Preschool-aged children health, daily physical activity
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Concussions Can't Be Prevented, Treated or Cured with Dietary Supplements
Jan 13, 2014Concussions can't be prevented, treated or cured with dietary supplements, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency issued a warning against these products in response to a number of false claims, including promises ...
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More Than a Week After Marijuana Prohibition Came to an End in Colorado
Jan 13, 2014More than a week after marijuana prohibition came to an end in Colorado, the joy has faded as residents adjust to the new normal of having the most liberal marijuana laws in the U.S. Long lines are gone from the 37 -- and counting -- pot ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approved Mekinist for Use with Another Drug
Jan 13, 2014The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Mekinist for use with another drug, Tafinlar, to treat advanced melanoma that is spreading or cannot be removed by surgery. Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer, ...
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Innovative Work Shows The Structural and DNA Breakdown of a Bacteria-Invading Virus
Jan 13, 2014Innovative work by two Florida State University scientists that shows the structural and DNA breakdown of a bacteria-invading virus is being featured on the cover of the February issue of the journal Virology. Kathryn Jones and Elizabeth ...
Tags: Florida State University, bacteria-invading virus, bacteriophage
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The Number of People Who Develop Lung Cancer Continues to Drop
Jan 13, 2014As fewer Americans smoke, the number of people who develop lung cancer continues to drop, U.S. health officials report. Between 2005 and 2009, lung cancer rates went down 2.6 percent each year among men, from 87 to 78 cases per 100,000, ...
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How Cilia Have Come to Be Used for So Many Different Tasks in Nature?
Jan 13, 2014Cilia—short, hair-like fibers—are widely present in nature. Single-celled paramecia use one set of cilia for locomotion and another set to sweep nutrients into their oral grooves. Researchers at Brown have discovered that those ...
Tags: Cilia, Single-celled paramecia, locomotion, fibers
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Major Food Companies Are Keeping Their Word by Removing 6.4 Trillion Calories
Jan 13, 2014Major food companies are keeping their word by removing 6.4 trillion calories from the U.S. marketplace in an effort to promote healthy weight, a new report says. The report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), a ...
Tags: Food, Calories Cut
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Yahoo's Service Sites Were Used by Hackers to Enslave Massive Numbers of Ordinary PCs
Jan 13, 2014Yahoo, has acknowledged that its service sites were used by hackers to enslave massive numbers of ordinary PCs who did so to generate bitcoins, and by extension, real earnings. Ads were placed on Yahoo web sites that when clicked by users, ...
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Certain Drugs Taken to Control Seizures Might Be Unsafe for Use by Pregnant Women
Jan 13, 2014There's long been concern that certain drugs taken to control seizures might be unsafe for use by pregnant women, due to potential effects on the fetus. Now, new British research suggests that the drug levetiracetam does not pose a major ...
Tags: Weighs Safety, Epilepsy Drugs, Safety of Epilepsy Drugs in Pregnancy
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Recent Developments Combining Machines and Organisms Have Great Potentials
Jan 13, 2014Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great potentials, but also give rise to major ethical concerns. In their review ...
Tags: cyborgs, cybernetic organism, medical implants, electronics
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Wheat Supplies Are Unchanged , But Wheat Exports Are Projected 25 Million Bushels Higher
Jan 13, 2014WHEAT: U.S. wheat supplies for 2013/14 are unchanged this month, but lower expected use raises projected ending stocks 33 million bushels. Feed and residual use is lowered 60 million bushels reflecting disappearance for June-November as ...
Tags: Wheat Exports, Wheat, Bushels
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Kepler Team Today Reports on Four Years of Observations
Jan 13, 2014The Kepler team today reports on four years of observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory targeting Kepler's exoplanet systems, announcing results this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington. These observations, ...
Tags: Kepler team, W.M.Keck Observatory, exoplanet systems, observations
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US-Based Vuzix Showed off Its First Commercially Available "Smart Glasses"
Jan 13, 2014While many of the digital glitterati thronging this week's Consumer Electronics Show were wearing Google's new Internet glasses, rival online eyewear products abounded among the trade stands. US-based Vuzix showed off what it billed as ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Google, Internet glasses, smart glasses
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