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		<title>Folic Acid, B12 May Increase Cancer Risk</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is new evidence that folic acid, taken in large doses, may promote some cancers.
Heart patients in Norway who took folic acid and vitamin B12 supplements were found to have a slightly increased risk for cancer and death from all causes, compared to heart patients who did not take the supplements in a study published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1829&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacationing in Thailand over Greece? That&#8217;s the dopamine talking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People constantly make complex decisions, from the more mundane—which restaurant to go to for dinner or which movie to go see—to the more profound—whether to have kids or not. Now, a new study published online on November 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, confirms an important role for the brain chemical dopamine in how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1826&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. That&#8217;s the conclusion of a report in the November 13th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, that provides some of the first evidence in mice and rats that new neurons sprouted in the hippocampus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1824&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Hope for Neuron Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)&#8211;also known as Lou Gehrig&#38;apos;s disease&#8211;has been a frustrating and elusive quest. Even after decades of research, the biological roots of ALS are only partially understood. Now a new form of treatment offers fresh hope.
Trophos, a company based in Marseilles, France, has discovered a drug compound that appears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1822&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New study links vitamin D deficiency to cardiovascular disease and death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While mothers have known that feeding their kids milk builds strong bones, a new study by researchers at the Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City suggests that Vitamin D contributes to a strong and healthy heart as well – and that inadequate levels of the vitamin may significantly increase a person&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1819&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cool a Brain, Save a Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chilling the brains of people in cardiac arrest as they are rushed to the hospital improves the chances they will survive &#8212; and without brain damage, researchers report.
In cardiac arrest, the heart stops beating, cutting off the blood supply to the body and brain. Even if a patient can be resuscitated, brain damage often results.
But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1817&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How cells tolerate DNA damage &#8212; start signal for cell survival program identified</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cancer researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have gained new insights into how cells react to DNA damage. Dr. Michael Stilmann, Dr. Michael Hinz and Professor Claus Scheidereit have shown that the protein PARP-1, which detects DNA damage within seconds, activates the transcription factor NF-kappaB, a well-known regulator of gene [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1815&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study shows link between influenza virus and fever</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viruses are microscopically sized parasites. They plant their genes in the cells of their victim in order to &#8216;reprogram&#8217; them. The infected cells then no longer produce what they need to live, making lots of new viruses instead.
Luckily, in most cases this hostile takeover does not go unnoticed. This is ensured by the cells&#8217; own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1813&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists guide immune cells with light and microparticles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies. Their findings are described in the November 15 issue of Nature MethodsAdvanced Online Publication.
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When bacteria enter our bodies they secrete molecules, leaving behind chemical trails as they move through our system. It has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1811&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists discover cells that control inflammation in chronic disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new type of immune cell that can be out of control in certain chronic inflammatory diseases, worsening the symptoms of conditions like psoriasis and asthma, is described for the first time this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The authors of the study, from Imperial College London, the Istituto Dermopatico dell&#8217;Immacolata in Rome and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1809&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low Vitamin D Levels May Raise Heart Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some men with low levels of vitamin D in their blood are at particularly high risk of developing heart disease and weakened bones that can lead to osteoporosis, researchers report.
In a study of more than 1,000 men, those with low levels of both vitamin D and the sex hormone estrogen were at significantly increased risk of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1806&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
&#8220;Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent,&#8221; according to Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary&#8217;s Research Centre for Psychology and University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1804&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughtful words help couples stay fighting fit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system.
&#8220;Previous research has shown that couples who are hostile to each other show health impairments and are at greater risk of disease,&#8221; said Jennifer Graham, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1802&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Niacin Tops Zetia in Cutting Artery Plaque</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/niacin-tops-zetia-in-cutting-artery-plaque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prescription version of niacin beat out a blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug in slowing the buildup of plaque in artery walls, researchers report.The study pitted extended-release niacin, sold as Niaspan, which works by boosting levels of HDL &#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol, against ezetimibe. Ezetimibe, sold as  Zetia, lowers levels of LDL &#8220;bad&#8221; cholesterol.The findings are the second recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1800&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drink for Your Heart but Abstain for Cancer?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/drink-for-your-heart-but-abstain-for-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/?p=1798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even moderate alcohol consumption of more than two drinks a week may raise the risk of cancer, according to a new study, despite past research suggesting that light drinking can benefit your health. So whats the truth?A new study reveals that even moderate drinking can raise a womans risk.The latest piece of evidence on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1798&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/new-model-suggests-how-the-brain-might-stay-in-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/?p=1796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The human brain is made up of 100 billion neurons — live wires that must be kept in delicate balance to stabilize the world’s most magnificent computing organ. Too much excitement and the network will slip into an apoplectic, uncomprehending chaos. Too much inhibition and it will flatline. A new mathematical model describes how the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1796&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Molecular Sunglasses for Macular Degeneration</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/molecular-sunglasses-for-macular-degeneration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Molecules designed to slow the production of toxic byproducts in the eye by making it less sensitive to light are now being tested in patients with macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people age 50 and older. If successful, the compounds would provide a much needed therapy for the disease, which affects more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1794&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medicines to Deter Some Cancers Are Not Taken</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/medicines-to-deter-some-cancers-are-not-taken/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/medicines-to-deter-some-cancers-are-not-taken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/?p=1792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Americans do not think twice about taking medicines to prevent heart disease and stroke. But cancer is different. Much of what Americans do in the name of warding off cancer has not been shown to matter, and some things are actually harmful. Yet the few medicines proved to deter cancer are widely ignored.
via Forty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1792&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gut Response To What We Eat</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/the-gut-response-to-what-we-eat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A high-fat, high-sugar diet can quickly and dramatically change the population of microbes living in the digestive tract, according to a new study of human gut bugs transplanted into mice.
Trillions of microbes live inside the human gut, and one of their functions is to process parts of foods that we can&#38;apos;t digest on our own. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1790&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Signature of consciousness captured in brain scans</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/signature-of-consciousness-captured-in-brain-scans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/?p=1788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes.
It turns out that there is a similar pattern of neural activity each time we become conscious of the same picture, but not if we process information from the image unconsciously. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1788&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suite of chatterbox genes discovered</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/suite-of-chatterbox-genes-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is often thought of as one of the things that make humans unique. Now, researchers are uncovering the suite of genes that gave us our gift of the gab.
All of them appear to be controlled by a master-switch gene called Foxp2. When inactive, this gene causes severe speech and language problems in humans. Although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1786&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Chocolate Takes Bite Out of Stress</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/dark-chocolate-takes-bite-out-of-stress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/?p=1784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those stress-induced chocolate cravings may be justified after all. A new study shows that eating dark chocolate may lower levels of stress hormones in people feeling stressed out.Researchers found that eating the equivalent of one average-sized dark chocolate candy bar 1.4 ounces each day for two weeks reduced levels of the stress hormone cortisol as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1784&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diet Sodas May Be Hard on the Kidneys</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/diet-sodas-may-be-hard-on-the-kidneys-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/?p=1782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Diet soda may help keep your calories in check, but drinking two or more diet sodas a day may double your risk of declining kidney function, a new study shows.Women who drank two or more diet sodas a day had a 30% drop in a measure of kidney function during the lengthy study follow-up, according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1782&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity Linked to Many Cancer Cases in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/obesity-linked-to-many-cancer-cases-in-u-s-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many as 100,000 cases of cancer could be prevented in the U.S. each year if Americans get rid of their excess body fat.
That&#8217;s according to estimates released by the American Institute for Cancer Research. The estimates suggest that heart disease, diabetes, and joint problems aren&#8217;t the only illnesses in which rampant obesity is causing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1780&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early life stress &#8216;changes&#8217; genes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/early-life-stress-changes-genes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study in mice has hinted at the impact that early life trauma and stress can have on genes, and how they can result in behavioural problems.
Scientists described the long-term effects of stress on baby mice in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Stressed mice produced hormones that &#8220;changed&#8221; their genes, affecting their behaviour throughout their lives.
via BBC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1778&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Therapy Halts Brain Disease in Two Boys</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/gene-therapy-halts-brain-disease-in-two-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have used a modified AIDS virus to halt a devastating brain disease in two young boys. The treatment, in which the virus delivered a therapeutic gene, marks the first time gene therapy has been successfully used against X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)&#8211;a disorder that is always fatal if untreated. With this proof of principle, scientists hope [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1776&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity Linked to Many Cancer Cases in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/obesity-linked-to-many-cancer-cases-in-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many as 100,000 cases of cancer could be prevented in the U.S. each year if Americans get rid of their excess body fat.Thats according to estimates released by the American Institute for Cancer Research. The estimates suggest that heart disease, diabetes, and joint problems arent the only illnesses in which rampant obesity is causing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1774&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Grows Heart Tissue, Watches it Beat</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/harvard-grows-heart-tissue-watches-it-beat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Alive! Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital have succeeded in taking embryonic stem cells from mice and growing cardiovascular tissue. The research team, led by Dr. Kenneth Chien, believes that a similar process may one day serve to repair cardiac damage in humans. The work was recently published in the journal Science. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1766&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stealthy Nanoparticles Attack Cancer Cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/technology-review-stealthy-nanoparticles-attack-cancer-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a small manufacturing space on a Cambridge, MA, street dotted with biotech companies, Greg Troiano tinkers with a series of gleaming metal vats interweaved with plastic tubes. The vats are designed to violently shake a mix of chemicals into precise nanostructures, and Troiano&#8217;s task, as head of process development at start-up BIND Biosciences, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1758&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Life Hedged Its Bets to Survive</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/early-life-hedged-its-bets-to-survive-wired-science-wired-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By forcing bacteria to evolve in ever-changing conditions, scientists have induced a behavior in which colonies formed by microbes with identical genes take radically different forms, as if one sibling in a set of identical quadruplets could sprout gills.
Technically known as “stochastic switching between phenotypic states” — or, more conversationally, hedging your bets — the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1756&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Slowly May Help Weight Control</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/eating-slowly-may-help-weight-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eyeball your food a little longer if you&#8217;re looking to shed some pounds, because wolfing it down too fast may make you prone to overeat, a new study shows.
So savor those aromas, relish the meal&#8217;s presentation, and don&#8217;t just dig in like you&#8217;ve got to finish it off in a hurry, researchers report in The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1754&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Th17 Cells Summon an Immune System Strike Against Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A specific type of T helper cell awakens the immune system to the stealthy threat of cancer and triggers an attack of killer T cells custom-made to destroy the tumors, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the early online edition of the journal Immunity.
The role of Th17, one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1752&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is your brain on fatty acids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturated fats have a deservedly bad reputation, but Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a sticky lipid occurring naturally at high levels in the brain may help us memorize grandma’s recipe for cinnamon buns, as well as recall how, decades ago, she served them up steaming from the oven.
The Hopkins team, reporting Oct. 29 in Neuron, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1750&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slimming gene regulates body fat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a previously unknown fruit fly gene that controls the metabolism of fat. Larvae in which this gene is defective lose their entire fat reserves. Therefore the researchers called the gene &#8217;schlank&#8217; (German for &#8217;slim&#8217;). Mammals carry a group of genes that are structurally very similar to &#8217;schlank&#8217;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1747&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study reveals a &#8216;missing link&#8217; in immune response to disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The immune system&#8217;s T cells have the unique responsibilities of being both jury and executioner. They examine other cells for signs of disease, including cancers or infections, and, if such evidence is found, rid them from the body. Precisely how T cells shift so swiftly from one role to another, however, has been a mystery.
In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1742&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers identify the 3 killer indicators that are even worse than high cholesterol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Warwick have identified a particular combination of health problems that can double the risk of heart attack and cause a three-fold increase in the risk of mortality.
The team, led by Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at Warwick Medical School Dr Oscar Franco, has discovered that simultaneously having obesity, high [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1740&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cholesterol and cancer: Answers and some new questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pair of studies in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &#38; Prevention, lay to rest the decades-long concern that lower total cholesterol may lead to cancer, and in fact lower cholesterol may reduce the risk of high-grade prostate cancer.
Demetrius Albanes, M.D., a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute, said early studies suggested that low cholesterol could increase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1738&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How saturated fatty acids &#8216;anger&#8217; the immune system (and how to stop them)</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/how-saturated-fatty-acids-anger-the-immune-system-and-how-to-stop-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have new evidence to explain how saturated fatty acids, which soar in those who are obese, can lead the immune system to respond in ways that add up to chronic, low-grade inflammation. The new results could lead to treatments designed to curb that inflammatory state, and the insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1736&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8217;spoonful of sugar&#8217; makes the worms&#8217; life span go down</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[f worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, say it might also be taking years off your life.
By adding just a small amount of glucose to C. elegans usual fare of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1735&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diet Sodas May Be Hard on the Kidneys</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diet soda may help keep your calories in check, but drinking two or more diet sodas a day may double your risk of declining kidney function, a new study shows.Women who drank two or more diet sodas a day had a 30% drop in a measure of kidney function during the lengthy study follow-up, according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1733&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Molecules in Infrared Could Lead to New Medicines &#8211; US News and World Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Premature death risk factor analysis points to inflammation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article published online on September 1, 2009 in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences reported the results of a study of men and women aged 65 and older which revealed risk factors associated with dying over a 13 year average period.
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		<title>Human variation revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have generated the most comprehensive map of the structural variation that exists among normal, healthy humans, according to a study published online today in Nature. Understanding normal variation between individuals is critical to identifying abnormal changes that may contribute to a wide variety of heritable diseases.
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		<title>Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.
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		<title>Researchers find brain cell transplants help repair neural damage</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/researchers-find-brain-cell-transplants-help-repair-neural-damage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Swiss research team has found that using an animal&#8217;s own brain cells (autologous transplant) to replace degenerated neurons in select brain areas of donor primates with simulated but asymptomatic Parkinson&#8217;s disease and previously in a motor cortex lesion model, provides a degree of brain protection and may be useful in repairing brain lesions and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1721&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HIV tamed by designer &#8216;leash&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have shown how an antiviral protein produced by the immune system, dubbed tetherin, tames HIV and other viruses by literally putting them on a leash, to prevent their escape from infected cells. The insights reported in the October 30th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, allowed the research team to design a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1719&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Widely used cholesterol-lowering drug may prevent progression</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simvastatin, a commonly used, cholesterol-lowering drug, may prevent Parkinson&#8217;s disease from progressing further. Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center conducted a study examining the use of the FDA-approved medication in mice with Parkinson&#8217;s disease and found that the drug successfully reverses the biochemical, cellular and anatomical changes caused by the disease.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A natural probiotic therapy may offer a new treatment option to ease symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease and promote the bodys own healing process.Up to 1 million people in the U.S. have inflammatory bowel disease IBD; the main types are ulcerative colitis and Crohns disease. With inflammatory bowel disease the inner lining of the intestines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1714&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yale Scientists Diagnose Illness Through Genome Sequencing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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A doctor has some tried and true methods of helping her diagnose a disease: examining the lymph nodes, taking your temperature, that whole “turn your head and cough” thing. Now, we need to add one more: whole genome sequencing. Researchers at Yale have sequenced the genome of a patient in order to diagnose his condition, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1711&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Milliseconds, Brain Zips From Thought To Speech : NPR</title>
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An unusual experiment is offering some tantalizing clues about what goes on in the brain before we speak.
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		<title>Unusual bacteria help balance the immune system in mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical researchers have long suspected that obscure bacteria living within the intestinal tract may help keep the human immune system in balance. An international collaboration co-led by scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center has now identified a bizarre-looking microbial species that can single-handedly spur the production of specialized immune cells in mice.
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		<title>Fighting sleep, researchers reverse the cognitive impairment caused by sleep deprivation</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fighting-sleep-researchers-reverse-the-cognitive-impairment-caused-by-sleep-deprivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. Just as important, the team believes that the cognitive deficits caused by sleep deprivation, such as an inability to focus, learn or memorize, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1698&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Culture of we&#8217; buffers genetic tendency to depression</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/culture-of-we-buffers-genetic-tendency-to-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A genetic tendency to depression is much less likely to be realized in a culture centered on collectivistic rather than individualistic values, according to a new Northwestern University study.
In other words, a genetic vulnerability to depression is much more likely to be realized in a Western culture than an East Asian culture that is more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1695&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why fish oils help and how they could help even more</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/why-fish-oils-help-and-how-they-could-help-even-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research from Queen Mary, University of London and Harvard Medical School has revealed precisely why taking fish oils can help with conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.
In a paper published in Nature today*, researchers describe how the body converts an ingredient found in fish oils into another chemical called Resolvin D2 and how this chemical reduces the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1692&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cockroach Superpower: They Don’t Need to Pee &#124; Wired Science &#124; Wired.com</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/cockroach-superpower-they-don%e2%80%99t-need-to-pee-wired-science-wired-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To survive in hostile environments, cockroaches rely on their own vermin: Blattabacterium, a microbe that hitched a ride inside roaches 140 million years ago, and hasn’t left since.
Researchers who sequenced the Blattabacterium genome have found that it converts waste into molecules necessary for a roach to survive. Every cockroach is a testimony to the power [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1689&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing 3D animation of biological machinery!</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/amazing-3d-animation-of-biological-machinery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Scientists discover gene that &#8216;cancer-proofs&#8217; rodent&#8217;s cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/scientists-discover-gene-that-cancer-proofs-rodents-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a 30-year lifespan that gives ample time for cells to grow cancerous, a small rodent species called a naked mole rat has never been found with tumors of any kind—and now biologists at the University of Rochester think they know why.
The findings, presented in today&#8217;s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1682&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers discover mechanism that prevents two species from reproducing</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/researchers-discover-mechanism-that-prevents-two-species-from-reproducing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cornell researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism in fruit flies that prevents two closely related species from reproducing, a finding that offers clues to how species evolve.
When two populations of a species become geographically isolated from each other, their genes diverge from one another over time.
Eventually, when a male from one group mates with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1680&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Therapy Helps Blind Children See</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/gene-therapy-helps-blind-children-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A single injection of DNA into the eyes of four children born with a blindness-causing disease has given them enough vision to walk without help. The study, published today, confirms that if patients with this disease are given gene therapy early in life, the results can be dramatic.
via 		Gene Therapy Helps Blind Children See &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1678&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The food-energy cellular connection revealed</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-food-energy-cellular-connection-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our body&#8217;s activity levels fall and rise to the beat of our internal drums—the 24-hour cycles that govern fundamental physiological functions, from sleeping and feeding patterns to the energy available to our cells. Whereas the master clock in the brain is set by light, the pacemakers in peripheral organs are set by food availability. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1663&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awakening Paralyzed Limbs</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/awakening-paralyzed-limbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Brain signals can drive arm movement in a monkey with a paralyzed arm. A monkey with a paralyzed arm can still grasp a ball, thanks to a novel system designed to translate brain signals into complex muscle movements in real time. The research, presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago this week, could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1661&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic 3D animation of Transcription and Translation</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/fantastic-3d-animation-of-transcription-and-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fish vision discovery makes waves in natural selection</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/fish-vision-discovery-makes-waves-in-natural-selection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an animal deleting a molecule to change its visual spectrum.
Their findings on scabbardfish, linking molecular evolution to functional changes and the possible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1654&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Master regulator found for regenerating nerve fibers in live animals</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/master-regulator-found-for-regenerating-nerve-fibers-in-live-animals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Children&#8217;s Hospital Boston report that an enzyme known as Mst3b, previously identified in their lab, is essential for regenerating damaged axons (nerve fibers) in a live animal model, in both the peripheral and central nervous systems. Their findings, published online by Nature Neuroscience on October 25, suggest Mst3b – or agents that stimulate it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1652&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small mechanical forces have big impact on embryonic stem cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applying a small mechanical force to embryonic stem cells could be a new way of coaxing them into a specific direction of differentiation, researchers at the University of Illinois report. Applications for force-directed cell differentiation include therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine.
&#8220;Our results suggest that small forces may indeed play critical roles in inducing strong biological [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1645&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fate Therapeutics announces creation of small molecule platform for commercial-scale reprogramming</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/fate-therapeutics-announces-creation-of-small-molecule-platform-for-commercial-scale-reprogramming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fate Therapeutics, Inc. announced today the generation of human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using a combination of small molecules that significantly improves the speed and efficiency of reprogramming. The discoveries, which were made by Sheng Ding, Ph.D. under a research collaboration between Fate Therapeutics and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), represent a more than 200-fold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1643&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Sleepyheads Forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red-eye flights, all-night study sessions, and extra-inning playoff games all deprive us of sleep and can leave us forgetful the next day. Now scientists have discovered that lost sleep disrupts a specific molecule in the brain&apos;s memory circuitry, possibly leading to treatments for tired brains.
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	Why Sleepyheads Forget &#8212; Torrice 2009 (1021): 1 &#8212; ScienceNOW.
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		<title>A major step in making better stem cells from adult tissue</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/a-major-step-in-making-better-stem-cells-from-adult-tissue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 15, 2009 A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has developed a method that dramatically improves the efficiency of creating stem cells from human adult tissue, without the use of embryonic cells. The research makes great strides in addressing a major practical challenge in the development of stem-cell-based medicine.
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		<title>Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 21-year Michigan State University experiment that distills the essence of evolution in laboratory flasks not only demonstrates natural selection at work, but could lead to biotechnology and medical research advances, researchers said.
Charles Darwin&#8217;s seminal Origin of Species first laid out the case for evolution exactly 150 years ago. Now, MSU professor Richard Lenski and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1638&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A master mechanism for regeneration?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/a-master-mechanism-for-regeneration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts. Newts, for example, can lose a leg and grow a new one identical to the original. Zebrafish can re-grow fins.
These animals and others also can repair damaged heart tissue and injured structures in the eye. In contrast, humans have only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1636&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The book of life can now literally be written on paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George Whitesides and cell biologist Don Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells – and it&#8217;s as cheap and simple as reaching for a paper towel.
Ratmir Derda, a postdoctoral student co-mentored by Whitesides and Ingber at Harvard&#8217;s new Wyss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1633&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phytochemicals in plant-based foods could help battle obesity, disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[he cheeseburger and French fries might look tempting, but eating a serving of broccoli or leafy greens first could help people battle metabolic processes that lead to obesity and heart disease, a new University of Florida study shows.
Eating more plant-based foods, which are rich in substances called phytochemicals, seems to prevent oxidative stress in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1632&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time-keeping brain neurons discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groups of neurons that precisely keep time have been discovered in the primate brain by a team of researchers that includes Dezhe Jin, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University and two neuroscientists from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). &#8220;This research is the first time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1630&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists first to see RNA network in live bacterial cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA&#8217;s movements in a living cell when they can&#8217;t see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in a live bacteria cell—a sight that could offer new information about how the molecule moves and works.
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		<title>Drugs May Save Memory of the Sleep-Deprived</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memory fuzzy after missing out on sleep? Researchers may be one step closer to figuring out what to do about it.
Sleep deprivation makes it harder for the brain to memorize newly learned information, and scientists may have found a way around that problem.
Writing in Nature, University of Pennsylvania graduate student Christopher G. Vecsey, professor Ted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1625&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How bacteria sense the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center have addressed how environmental stimuli are converted into biological signals using the highest resolution analysis of its kind to date. Their findings reveal that interaction between a particular kinase sensor and catalytic domains act as an on/off “switch” that triggers phosphorylation in response to environmental stimuli.
While advancing our understanding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1620&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melatonin Helps Autistic Kids Sleep</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/melatonin-helps-autistic-kids-sleep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low doses of melatonin may help children with autism get a better night&#8217;s rest, researchers report.
Melatonin Helps Autistic Kids Sleep.
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		<title>Nuts, Vegetables, Fish Cut Alzheimer&#8217;s Risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/nuts-vegetables-fish-cut-alzheimers-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A diet rich in cruciferous and green leafy vegetables, nuts, fish, and tomatoes and low in red meat and high-fat dairy products may protect against Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, a study suggests.
Nuts, Vegetables, Fish Cut Alzheimer&#8217;s Risk.
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		<title>Suppressing A Gene In Mice Prevents Heart From Aging, Preserves Its Function</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/suppressing-a-gene-in-mice-prevents-heart-from-aging-preserves-its-function/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene, in a study reported inCirculation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
“The study provides evidence that delaying or preventing heart failure in humans may be possible,” said Tetsuo Shioi, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1613&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists jump-start heart cells by gene transfer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/scientists-jump-start-heart-cells-by-gene-transfer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota show in a research report published online in the FASEB Journal(http://www.fasebj.org) that gene therapy may be used to improve an ailing heart&#8217;s ability to contract properly. In addition to showing gene therapy&#8217;s potential for reversing the course of heart failure, it also offers a tantalizing glimpse of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1611&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nexavar May Treat Advanced Breast Cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/nexavar-may-treat-advanced-breast-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/nexavar-may-treat-advanced-breast-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adding the cancer drug Nexavar to standard chemotherapy significantly extends the time until advanced breast cancerprogresses, researchers report.
Nexavar May Treat Advanced Breast Cancer.
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		<title>Genetic Fountain of Youth</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/genetic-fountain-of-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By disabling a gene involved in an important biochemical signaling pathway, scientists have discovered a way to mimic the well-known anti-aging benefits of caloric restriction, allowing mice to live longer and healthier lives. This finding, published online today in Science, offers a promising drug target for combating the many health problems associated with aging.
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Weight Tied to Healthy Aging</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/womens-weight-tied-to-healthy-aging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For women, the odds of being healthy at age 70 are best for those who don&apos;t gain a lot of weight between ages 18 and 50 and who aren&apos;t obese at 50.
via Women&#8217;s Weight Tied to Healthy Aging  .
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		<title>Brain-wave boost sets us to slow motion</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/brain-wave-boost-sets-us-to-slow-motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boosting brain waves can make people move in slow motion. This finding is one of the first to show that brain waves directly influence behaviour, and it could lead to new treatments for Parkinson&apos;s disease and other disorders that affect movement.
via Brain-wave boost sets us to slow motion &#8211; health &#8211; 02 October 2009 &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1603&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ultrafast DNA Nanosensor</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/ultrafast-dna-nanosensor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A portable instrument based on an ultrasensitive nanoscale sensor could detect bacteria in minutes, helping to catch infectious diseases early and prevent their spread. The simple, low-cost device should be available within three years, says Benjamin Miller, professor of dermatology and biomedical engineering at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and codeveloper of the sensor.
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		<title>Mediterranean Diet May Fight Depression</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/mediterranean-diet-may-fight-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study suggests people who follow a traditional Mediterranean diet, rich in foods like vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains, olive oil, and fish, may be less likely to develop depression.
via Mediterranean Diet May Fight Depression.
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		<title>Does Vitamin D Protect Against High BP?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/does-vitamin-d-protect-against-high-bp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women who do not have enough vitamin D before menopause may have an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure years later, new research suggests.
via Does Vitamin D Protect Against High BP?.
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		<title>Modeling Diabetes with Stem Cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/modeling-diabetes-with-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Reprogrammed adult cells could be used to reconstruct diabetes in the laboratory.
Technology Review: Modeling Diabetes with Stem Cells.
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		<title>New Drug Shrinks Skin Cancer Tumors</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/new-drug-shrinks-skin-cancer-tumors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An experimental drug appears to dramatically and rapidly shrink deadly skin cancer tumors, researchers report.
New Drug Shrinks Skin Cancer Tumors.
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		<title>Lack of Sleep Increases the Risk of Catching a Cold</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/lack-of-sleep-increases-the-risk-of-catching-a-cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Studies have demonstrated that poor sleep and susceptibility to colds go hand in hand, and scientists think it could be a reflection of the role sleep plays in maintaining the body’s defenses.
Really? &#8211; The Claim &#8211;  Lack of Sleep Increases the Risk of Catching a Cold. &#8211; Question &#8211; NYTimes.com.
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		<title>In One Study, a Heart Benefit for Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/in-one-study-a-heart-benefit-for-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	In a study that will provide comfort to chocoholics everywhere, researchers in Sweden have found evidence that people who eat chocolate have increased survival rates after a heart attack — and it may be that the more they eat, the better.
In One Study, a Heart Benefit for Chocolate &#8211; NYTimes.com.
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		<title>Mediterranean Diet Helps Control Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/mediterranean-diet-helps-control-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ating a Mediterranean-style diet may help people with type 2 diabetes keep their disease under control without drugs better than following a typical low-fat diet.
Mediterranean Diet Helps Control Diabetes.
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		<title>American Heart Association Recommends Limiting Added Sugars</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/american-heart-association-recommends-limiting-added-sugars-2/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/american-heart-association-recommends-limiting-added-sugars-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Heart Association today released new recommendations on limiting intake of added dietary sugars.
American Heart Association Recommends Limiting Added Sugars.
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		<title>New biosensor can detect bacteria instantaneously</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/new-biosensor-can-detect-bacteria-instantaneously/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/new-biosensor-can-detect-bacteria-instantaneously/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research group from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona has developed a biosensor that can immediately detect very low levels of Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever. The technique uses carbon nanotubes and synthetic DNA fragments that activate an electric signal when they link up with the pathogen.


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		<title>Too-Thin Thighs Unhealthy?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/too-thin-thighs-unhealthy/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/too-thin-thighs-unhealthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[		Thighs Less Than 23 Inches Around May Be Risky, Maybe Because of Too Little Muscle
Too-Thin Thighs Unhealthy?    .
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		<title>Human fat is easily converted to pluripotent stem cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, than are the skin cells most often used by researchers, according to a new study from Stanford&#8217;s School of Medicine.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve identified a great natural resource,&#8221; said Stanford surgery professor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1579&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study of huge numbers of genetic mutations point to oxidative stress as underlying cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study that tracked genetic mutations through the human equivalent of about 5,000 years has demonstrated for the first time that oxidative DNA damage is a primary cause of the process of mutation &#8211; the fuel for evolution but also a leading cause of aging, cancer and other diseases.
The research, just published in Proceedings of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1577&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Late, Put on Weight?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/eat-late-put-on-weight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excessive late-night eating has long had a bad reputation, with studies showing it leads to weight gain.
Now, in a new study, researchers from Northwestern University have found that eating at the &#8220;wrong&#8221; time leads to more than twice as much weight gain, even when the overall calories consumed are the same as those eaten at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1575&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers identify critical gene for brain development, mental retardation</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/researchers-identify-critical-gene-for-brain-development-mental-retardation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In laying down the neural circuitry of the developing brain, billions of neurons must first migrate to their correct destinations and then form complex synaptic connections with their new neighbors.
When the process goes awry, neurodevelopmental disorders such as mental retardation, dyslexia or autism may result. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1572&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Molecular &#8216;GPS&#8217; helps researchers probe processes important in aging and disease</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/molecular-gps-helps-researchers-probe-processes-important-in-aging-and-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the hype about beneficial antioxidants in everything from face cream to cereal bars, you&#8217;d think their targets&#8212;oxygen radicals&#8212;must be up to no good. It&#8217;s true, the buildup of oxygen radicals and other reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cells contributes to aging and possibly to diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer&#8217;s.
But in moderate amounts, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1570&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers find that protein believed to protect against cancer has a Mr. Hyde side</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a biological rendition of fiction&#8217;s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida and Harvard Medical School have found that a protein thought to protect against cancer development can actually spur the spread of tumors.
The scientists, reporting in the Sept. 3 issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1568&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists identify genetic cause for type of deafness</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/scientists-identify-genetic-cause-for-type-of-deafness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a genetic cause of progressive hearing loss. The findings will help scientists better understand the nature of age-related decline in hearing and may lead to new therapies to prevent or treat the condition.
The findings were published the September 3, 2009, in an advance, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1566&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mice Can Eat &#8216;Junk&#8217; And Not Get Fat: Researchers Find Gene That Protects High-fat-diet Mice From Obesity</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/mice-can-eat-junk-and-not-get-fat-researchers-find-gene-that-protects-high-fat-diet-mice-from-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Michigan researchers have identified a gene that acts as a master switch to control obesity in mice. When the switch is turned off, even high-fat-diet mice remain thin.
Deleting the gene, called IKKE, also appears to protect mice against conditions that, in humans, lead to Type 2 diabetes, which is associated with obesity and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1564&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE FIRST DNA BARCODES OF COMMONLY TRADED BUSHMEAT ARE PUBLISHED</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/the-first-dna-barcodes-of-commonly-traded-bushmeat-are-published/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leather handbags and chunks of red meat: when wildlife specialists find these items in shipping containers, luggage, or local markets, they can now use newly published genetic sequences known as “DNA barcodes” to pinpoint the species of origin. Experts hope that this simple technique will track the harvesting of bushmeat (or wildlife hunted largely in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1562&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moderate Drinking Over 60 May Lower  Dementia Risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/moderate-drinking-over-60-may-lower-dementia-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People over 60 who consume moderate amounts of alcohol have a reduced risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, according to a large review of studies.
Vital Signs &#8211; Moderate Drinking Over 60 May Lower  Dementia Risk &#8211; NYTimes.com.
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		<title>Hedgehog Drug Helps Late-Stage Cancers</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/hedgehog-drug-helps-late-stage-cancers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advanced Skin, Brain Cancers Improve With Experimental Hedgehog Drug
Hedgehog Drug Helps Late-Stage Cancers.
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		<title>Alcohol a Motivator for Exercise?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/alcohol-a-motivator-for-exercise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Study: Drinkers Appear to Get More Exercise Than Non-Drinkers, but Longer Workouts Don&#8217;t Outweigh Health Woes of Heavy Drinking
Alcohol a Motivator for Exercise?.
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		<title>Scientists identify gene that predicts post-surgical survival from brain metastasis of breast cancer patients</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/scientists-identify-gene-that-predicts-post-surgical-survival-from-brain-metastasis-of-breast-cancer-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have identified a gene that may play a role in breast cancer metastasis to the brain, according to a report in Molecular Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Diane Palmieri, Ph.D., a staff scientist at the NCI, said Hexokinase 2 overexpression was more highly expressed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1553&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Central gears of the mammalian circadian clock exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The circadian clock, a 24-hour metabolic rhythm governing sleep cycles and other physiological processes, has long been known to play a central role in regulating the daily activities of living organisms. Its detailed biochemical mechanisms, however, have largely remained a mystery.

That mystery is one step closer to being unraveled with the latest discovery by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1551&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low-carb diets &#8216;damage arteries&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/low-carb-diets-damage-arteries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Low-carb slimming diets may clog arteries and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, a study suggests.
Diets based on eating lots of meat, fish and cheese, while restricting carbohydrates have grown in popularity in recent years.
But the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the US found such habits caused artery damage in tests on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1549&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think zinc: Molecular sensor could reveal zinc&#8217;s role in diseases</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/think-zinc-molecular-sensor-could-reveal-zincs-role-in-diseases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have developed a new molecular sensor that can reveal the amount of zinc in cells, which could tell us more about a number of diseases, including type 2 diabetes. The research, published today in Nature Methods, opens the door to the hidden world of zinc biology by giving scientists an accurate way of measuring the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1547&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense of personal space.
The discovery, described in the August 30 issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, could offer insight into autism and other disorders where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1545&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing A Cell&#8217;s Biological Battery</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/changing-a-cells-biological-battery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[		A new method tested in monkeys for replacing mitochondrial DNA could one day prevent devastating diseases.
Technology Review: Changing A Cell&#8217;s Biological Battery .

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		<title>Key Feature of Immune System Survived in Humans, Other Primates for 60 Million Years</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/key-feature-of-immune-system-survived-in-humans-other-primates-for-60-million-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study has concluded that one key part of the immune system, the ability of vitamin D to regulate anti-bactericidal proteins, is so important that is has been conserved through almost 60 million years of evolution and is shared only by primates, including humans – but no other known animal species. The fact that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1535&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Heart Association Recommends Limiting Added Sugars</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/american-heart-association-recommends-limiting-added-sugars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Heart Association today released new recommendations on limiting intake of added dietary sugars.
Back in 2006, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommended minimizing consumption of beverages and foods with added sugars.
Now, the AHA is getting more specific, with recommendations detailed down to the teaspoon based on a person&#8217;s age, sex, and activity level.
American Heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1533&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why a broken heart really does hurt &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/why-a-broken-heart-really-does-hurt-telegraph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found a genetic link between physical pain and social rejection, which means that breaking up with a partner really can be painful.
Psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles say the human body has a gene which connects physical pain sensitivity with social pain sensitivity.
The findings back the common theory that rejection &#8216;hurts&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1531&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Popcorn, Cereal Pack Antioxidant Punch</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/popcorn-cereal-pack-antioxidant-punch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole grains pack a powerful antioxidant punch along with their well-known fiber muscle, according to a new study.
For the first time, researchers have measured the total antioxidant content of many popular breakfast cereals and whole-grain snacks, and it turns out that the fiber powerhouses are also heavyweights in the cancer-fighting antioxidant division as well.
Raisin Bran [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1529&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression Dulls Brain&#8217;s Pleasure Sites</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/depression-dulls-brains-pleasure-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Depression is well known for dulling people&#8217;s sense of pleasure, and now, researchers have used high-tech brain scans to watch that happen inside the depressed brain.
Their findings &#8212; which appear in the advance online edition of NeuroReport &#8212; show that when depressed people listened to music they liked, the brain&#8217;s reward-processing areas weren&#8217;t as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1527&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Microfluidic Palette’ May Paint Clearer Picture of Biological Processes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/%e2%80%98microfluidic-palette%e2%80%99-may-paint-clearer-picture-of-biological-processes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The masterpieces that spring from the talents of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other artists often begin with the creation of a gradient of colors on a palette. In a similar manner, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created an innovative device called the “microfluidic palette” to produce multiple, steady-state chemical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1523&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music is the engine of new lab-on-chip device</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/music-is-the-engine-of-new-lab-on-chip-device/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music, rather than electromechanical valves, can drive experimental samples through a lab-on-a-chip in a new system developed at the University of Michigan. This development could significantly simplify the process of conducting experiments in microfluidic devices.
A paper on the research will be published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1521&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic surgeons&#8217; dream? Scar-free surgery with nanotechnology sealant</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/plastic-surgeons-dream-scar-free-surgery-with-nanotechnology-sealant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much attention of nanotechnology researchers has recently been paid to the fabrication of free-standing, ultra-thin films. These systems have been developed for use in a wide variety of fields such as nano-separation membranes or nanosensors for electrochemical and photochemical applications. In a first report on the fabrication of free-standing nanosheets for biomedical applications, scientists in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1516&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/scientists-immobilize-bacteria-in-fibrous-hydrogel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Bacteria play a role in myriad industrial processes from fermentation to cleaning up environmental pollution. But floating freely in solution, the microbial cells constantly multiply, generating biomass that must be removed periodically, causing downtime. Additionally, the microorganisms cannot be localized to a specific region of interest.
Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1514&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Therapy Creates a New Fovea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve months after receiving an experimental gene therapy for a rare, inherited form of blindness, a patient discovered that she could read an illuminated clock in the family car for the first time in her life. The unexpected findings suggest that the brain can adapt to new sensory capacity, even in people who have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1510&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cell-sized vesicle assembly line</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/cell-sized-vesicle-assembly-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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A production line for uniform lipid-coated microspheres has been created by Japanese scientists. Using a microfluidic device, the team can continuously generate fluid-filled vesicles that are all the same size and all have a single lipid bilayer surrounding them, and could one day be used in drug delivery or artificial cells. 

Cell-sized vesicle assembly line.
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		<title>Bionanomachines &#8212; proteins as resistance fighters</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/bionanomachines-proteins-as-resistance-fighters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dresden research team used laser tweezers to measure the friction between a single motor protein molecule and its track. The team found that also within our cells, motors work against the resistance of friction and are restrained in its operation—usually by far not as much though as their macroscopic counterparts. These first experimental measurements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1504&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An apple a day keeps kidney stones away</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found another reason to eat well: a healthy diet helps prevent kidney stones. Loading up on fruits, vegetables, nuts, low-fat dairy products, and whole grains, while limiting salt, red and processed meats, and sweetened beverages is an effective way to ward off kidney stones, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1502&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science magazine and JoVE announce scientific-video partnership</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/science-magazine-and-jove-announce-scientific-video-partnership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science, the journal of scientific research, news, and commentary published by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and JoVE, the scientific video journal, announced that they have entered into a partnership for joint production and publication of scientific videos online. The purpose of the partnership is to enhance scientific articles published in Science [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1500&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systems Biology Graphical Notation: A Visual Language for Biology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues in 30 laboratories worldwide have released a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information—the biology equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics. This visual language should make it easier to exchange complex information, so that biological models are depicted more accurately, consistently, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1498&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer Death Rate Is Going Down in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/cancer-death-rate-is-going-down-in-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Death rates from cancer have been decreasing in all age groups in recent years, but the steepest declines have been among younger people, a new study shows.

The findings suggest that measures for prevention, screening, and treatment are leading to lower death rates, researchers report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Cancer Death [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1496&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Organ Replaced: Fully Functional Bioengineered Tooth Debuts</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/an-organ-replaced-fully-functional-bioengineered-tooth-debuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Researchers used stem cells to grow a replacement tooth for an adult mouse, the first time scientists have developed a fully functioning three-dimensional organ replacement, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers at the Tokyo University of Science created a set of cells that contained genetic instructions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1493&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immortality improves cell reprogramming</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/immortality-improves-cell-reprogramming-nature-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knocking out genes with a role in cancer prevention helps produce stem cells.

Switching off the p53 pathway helped researchers to make stem-like cells.
Immortality improves cell reprogramming : Nature News.
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		<title>Breastfeeding May Cut Breast Cancer Risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/breastfeeding-may-cut-breast-cancer-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Women with a family history of breast cancer who have ever breastfed reduce their risk of getting premenopausal breast cancer by nearly 60%, according to a new study.
Breastfeeding May Cut Breast Cancer Risk.
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		<title>First compound that specifically kills cancer stem cells found</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[he cancer stem cells that drive tumor growth and resist chemotherapies and radiation treatments that kill other cancer cells aren&#8217;t invincible after all. Researchers reporting online on August 13th in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have discovered the first compound that targets those cancer stem cells directly.
&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t clear it would be possible to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1485&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technique enables efficient gene splicing in human embryonic stem cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/technique-enables-efficient-gene-splicing-in-human-embryonic-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A novel technique allows researchers to efficiently and precisely modify or introduce genes into the genomes of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, according to Whitehead scientists. The method uses proteins called zinc finger nucleases and is described in the August 13 issue of Nature Biotechnology.
For years, scientists have easily swapped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1482&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain innately separates living and non-living objects for processing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For unknown reasons, the human brain distinctly separates the handling of images of living things from images of non-living things, processing each image type in a different area of the brain. For years, many scientists have assumed the brain segregated visual information in this manner to optimize processing the images themselves, but new research shows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1480&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First human gene implicated in regulating length of human sleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered the first gene involved in regulating the optimal length of human sleep, offering a window into a key aspect of slumber, an enigmatic phenomenon that is critical to human physical and mental health.
The team, reporting in the Aug. 14, 2009 issue of Science, identified a mutated gene that allows two members of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1477&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mighty mice: Treatment targeted to muscle improves motor neuron disease</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/mighty-mice-treatment-targeted-to-muscle-improves-motor-neuron-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research with transgenic mice reveals that a therapy directed at the muscle significantly improves disease symptoms of a genetic disorder characterized by destruction of the neurons that control movement. The study, published by Cell Press in the August 13th issue of the journal Neuron, highlights a promising new treatment for this currently incurable and nontreatable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1475&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Antibodies to Strep Throat Bacteria Linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Mice</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/antibodies-to-strep-throat-bacteria-linked-to-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-in-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health’s Center for Infection and Immunity indicates that pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette syndrome and/or tic disorder may develop from an inappropriate immune response to the bacteria causing common throat infections. The mouse model findings, published online by Nature Publishing Group in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1472&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do high-fat diets make us stupid and lazy?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/do-high-fat-diets-make-us-stupid-and-lazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short-term memory getting worse? Exercise getting harder? Examine your diet. New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) showed that in less than 10 days of eating a high-fat diet, rats had a decreased ability to exercise and experienced significant short-term memory loss. These results show an important link between what we eat, how we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1470&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 machine, 4 weeks now enough to sequence human genome &#8211; Ars Technica</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/1-machine-4-weeks-now-enough-to-sequence-human-genome-ars-technica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Researchers have used a new machine that sequences millions of small DNA fragments in parallel to cover 90 percent of one individual&#8217;s genome in only four weeks.
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hnica.com/science/news/2009/08/human-genome-completed-using-one-machine-for-four-weeks.ars&#8217;&#62;1 machine, 4 weeks now enough to sequence human genome &#8211; Ars Technica.
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		<title>Aspirin May Help Treat Colon Cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/aspirin-may-help-treat-colon-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	 Certain patients with colorectal cancer who begin regular aspirin use after the disease develops may greatly improve their odds of survival, researchers in Boston report.
Aspirin May Help Treat Colon Cancer.
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		<title>No experience required: Category-specific brain organization in sighted and blind humans</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/no-experience-required-category-specific-brain-organization-in-sighted-and-blind-humans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study finds a surprising similarity in the way neural circuits linked to vision process information in both sighted individuals and those who have been blind since birth. The research, published by Cell Press in the August 13th issue of the journal Neuron, reveals that category-specific localized activation of a critical part of the visual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1459&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carnitine supplements reverse glucose intolerance in animals</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/carnitine-supplements-reverse-glucose-intolerance-in-animals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supplementing obese rats with the nutrient carnitine helps the animals to clear the extra sugar in their blood, something they had trouble doing on their own, researchers at Duke University Medical Center report.
A team led by Deborah Muoio (Moo-ee-oo), Ph.D., of the Duke Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, also performed tests on human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1457&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A window into the brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/a-window-into-the-bra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we absorb new information, the human brain reshapes itself to store this newfound knowledge. But where exactly is the new knowledge kept, and how does that capacity to adapt reflect our risk for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and other forms of senile dementia later in our lives?
Dr. Yaniv Assaf of Tel Aviv University&#8217;s Department of Neurobiology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1454&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping the Brain’s Highways</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/mapping-the-brain%e2%80%99s-highways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[		NEUROSCIENTISTS ARE MAPPING OUT A COMPLETE ATLAS OF CONNECTIVITY IN THE HUMAN BRAIN, BUT WHAT’S EMERGING IS A BATTLE OF SCALES.
Mapping the Brain’s Highways § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM.
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		<title>Mediterranean Diet Plus Exercise Cuts Alzheimer&#8217;s Risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/mediterranean-diet-plus-exercise-cuts-alzheimers-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	People who mostly follow the Mediterranean diet lower their risk of mental decline &#8212; and they lower this risk even more if they exercise, new studies suggest.
Mediterranean Diet Plus Exercise Cuts Alzheimer&#8217;s Risk .
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		<title>New Hope for Fixing Broken Hearts</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/new-hope-for-fixing-broken-hearts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	It has long been thought that damage to the heart is irreversible, but new research is challenging that assumption.
Investigators from Children&#8217;s Hospital Boston were able to reverse heart damage in mice by stimulating the growth of new heart muscle cells.
They did this by injecting the mice with the growth factor neuregulin1, which is a key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1448&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jumping genes&#8217; create diversity in human brain cells, offering clues to evolutionary and neurological disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than sticking to a single DNA script, human brain cells harbor astonishing genomic variability, according to scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The findings, to be published in the Aug. 5, 2009, advance online edition of Nature, could help explain brain development and individuality, as well as lead to a better understanding of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1446&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New electron microscopy images reveal the assembly of HIV</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/new-electron-microscopy-images-reveal-the-assembly-of-hiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University Clinic Heidelberg used cryoelectron tomography to peer at the structure of immature HIV, the precursor of the infectious variety. Turns out it has a fairly simple shape of a hexameric lattice that grows and seemingly randomly absorbs new proteins into the structure
Image: Top: Sections through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1441&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/humans-2-0-replacing-the-mind-and-body-livescience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday that innovation would be a key to the future of the nation, he probably was not thinking specifically of artificial brains or replacement eyeballs.
But other researchers already have such goals in mind and are well on their way to building Humans 2.0, the real-life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1437&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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