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Novel stroke treatment passes safety stage of clinical trial

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A clinical research trial of a new treatment to restore brain cells damaged by stroke has passed an important safety stage, according to the neurologist who led the effort.
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Fewer platelets could be used for some cancer and bone-marrow transplantation patients

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Physicians may be able to safely lower the platelet dosage in transfusions for cancer and bone-marrow transplant patients without risking increased bleeding, according to new research.
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Shocking recipe for making killer electrons

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Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by ESA's Cluster mission.
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Youth baseball throwing arm injuries are rising dramatically

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Throwing arm injuries are on the rise in Little League and other youth baseball programs. After these injuries occur, many players are out for the season; others require surgery and must refrain from play for an even longer duration; still others sustain injuries so severe that they cause permanent damage and are unable to continue playing baseball. Three new studies address this critical issue, each offering new solutions to help prevent these injuries.
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If bonobo Kanzi can point as humans do, what other similarities can rearing reveal?

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You may have more in common with Kanzi, Panbanisha and Nyota, three language-competent bonobos living at Great Ape Trust, than you thought. And those similarities, right at your fingertip, might one day tell scientists more about the effect of culture on neurological disorders that limit human expression. A recently published pointing study supports the assertion that the success of language studies with bonobos is tied to rearing.
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Inventing new oat and barley breads

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Scientists are working on a delicious new all-oat or all-barley bread.
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A tale of two Scandinavian cities

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Research funding changes trigger hiring in Lund but firing in Copenhagen.
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Movement disorder symptoms are lessened by an antibiotic: Treating worms with ampicillin helps restore normal movement

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Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits, according to scientists.
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Years of smoking associated with lower Parkinson's risk, not number of cigarettes per day

Science Daily - 40 min 1 sec ago
Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new study shows that smoking for a greater number of years may reduce the risk of the disease, but smoking a larger number of cigarettes per day may not reduce the risk.
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World crude oil production may peak a decade earlier than some predict

Science Daily - 40 min 1 sec ago
In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014 -- almost a decade earlier than some other predictions.
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Scientists solve puzzle of chickens that are half male and half female

Science Daily - 40 min 1 sec ago
A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries -- why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on the other -- has been solved by researchers. The research, which involved studying rare naturally occurring chickens with white (male) plumage on one side and brown (female) plumage on the other, sheds new light on the sexual development of birds.
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Physicists take atoms for a quantum walk

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A team of physicists has achieved a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. It is the first time that this quantum process using trapped ions has been demonstrated in detail. This latest advance promises to be important for the development of quantum computers in finding search quantum algorithms that outperform their classical counterparts as different directions could be chosen simultaneously.
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Massage eases anxiety, but no better than simple relaxation does

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A randomized trial shows three months after 10 massages, patients' anxiety symptoms were halved -- an improvement like that previously reported with psychotherapy, medications, or both. But the trial also found massage no more effective than simple relaxation.
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Conferences:High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy: past, present, and future[Mon, 15 Mar 2010]

ESA - 1 hour 10 min ago
High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy has become a powerful tool for astrophysics since the launch of Chandra and XMM-Newton, now 10 years ago. The grating spectrometers on both instruments still continue to provide excellent data, while imaging calorimeters are being prepared for future missions like Astro-H and IXO. The synergy with other wavelength bands like the UV will be boosted by the addition of COS to HST. X-ray spectroscopy offers unique diagnostics to study almost any object in the Universe. In this meeting presentations on highlights and the state-of-the-art of X-ray spectroscopy for a broad range of objects and on the prospects for future studies are foreseen.
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Cluster:Shocking recipe for 'killer electrons'

ESA - 1 hour 10 min ago
Interplanetary shocks can create "killer electrons" in the near-Earth space environment within 15 minutes of the shock reaching the Earth's protective magnetic bubble. The underlying mechanism for this process has now been revealed as a result of a rare configuration of satellites, including Cluster, SOHO and Double Star.
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IYA2009:Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2010 (CAP 2010) - Building on IYA 2009[Mon, 15 Mar 2010]

ESA - 1 hour 10 min ago
This conference builds on the astounding success of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). It will bring together producers of astronomical information (research scientists), public information officers (connected with large observatories and space missions), and mediators (science reporters and writers, staff members from museums, planetariums). CAP2010 will focus on the outcome of the IYA2009 activities, their evaluation and plans for future work. Furthermore, as this meeting will be held in South Africa, another major theme will be 'stimulating astronomy communication in the emerging world'.
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Conferences:9th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: Pickup Ions Throughout the Heliosphere and Beyond[Sun, 14 Mar 2010]

ESA - 1 hour 10 min ago
This conference is set up to review the state of our understanding of pickup ion physics and its consequences, identify outstanding problems, and consider potential new approaches. It is now recognized that pickup ions are present in almost all possible space environments, created from atoms originating at comets, planets, the satellites of the gas giants, and the interstellar medium. Indeed, pickup ions can be formed whenever a neutral gas and plasma interact.
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Hubble:Bully galaxy rules the neighbourhood [heic1004]

ESA - 1 hour 10 min ago
In general, galaxies can be thought of as "social" - hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies appear to be hungry loners. These cosmic oddities have set astronomers on the "case of the missing neighbour galaxies".
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JWST:James Webb Space Telescope sunshield passes critical design review

ESA - 1 hour 10 min ago
The James Webb Space Telescope sunshield has passed its critical design review, marking the successful completion of another mission milestone. The review certified that the sunshield design is complete and meets all the mission requirements; this clears the way for the start of manufacturing of the flight model sunshield.
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Director's Desk:Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team Workshop: A Roadmap for Exoplanets

ESA - 1 hour 10 min ago
The Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team (EPR-AT) invites interested parties from the scientific community to attend a workshop on "A Roadmap for Exoplanets", to be held 7-8 April 2010 at University College London. A draft roadmap document, in preparation by the EPR-AT for submission to ESA, will be discussed at this workshop. Input from the community is solicited in preparation for the final report to ESA later this year.
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