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		<title>Researchers identify genetic markers for metastasis formation in colorectal cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/researchers-identify-genetic-markers-for-metastasis-formation-in-colorectal-cancer/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, only a few genes had been associated with the formation of metastases in colorectal cancer. Now, researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany, have identified 115 genes that are disregulated both in the primary tumor and in its metastases. In the future, their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1302&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salamanders, regenerative wonders, heal like mammals, people</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The salamander is a superhero of regeneration, able to replace lost limbs, damaged lungs, sliced spinal cord &#8212; even bits of lopped-off brain.
But it turns out that remarkable ability isn&#8217;t so mysterious after all &#8212; suggesting that researchers could learn how to replicate it in people.
Scientists had long credited the diminutive amphibious creature&#8217;s outsized capabilities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1299&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood stem cell growth factor reverses memory decline in mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in the bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, researchers at the University of South Florida and James A. Haley Hospital found. The granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (GCSF) significantly reduced levels of the brain-clogging protein beta amyloid deposited in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1297&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Purple sweet potato means increased amount of anti-cancer components</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Kansas State University researcher is studying the potential health benefits of a specially bred purple sweet potato because its dominant purple color results in an increased amount of anti-cancer components.
K-State&#8217;s Soyoung Lim, doctoral student in human nutrition, Manhattan, is working with George Wang, associate professor of human nutrition at K-State, to understand the pigment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1294&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aerobic activity may keep the brain young</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine finds that aerobic activity may keep the brain young.
In the study published July 9 in the American Journal of Neuroradiology, physically active elderly people showed healthier cerebral blood vessels.

Researchers led by Elizabeth Bullitt, M.D., Van L. Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor of neurosurgery, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1292&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extending the shelf life of antibody drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new computer model developed at MIT can help solve a problem that has plagued drug companies trying to develop promising new treatments made of antibodies: Such drugs have a relatively short shelf life because they tend to clump together, rendering them ineffective.
Antibodies are the most rapidly growing class of human drugs, with the potential [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1290&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists find key culprits in lupus</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/scientists-find-key-culprits-in-lupus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more than 1.5 million Americans with systemic lupus erythematosus (or lupus) suffer from a variety of symptoms that flare and subside, often including painful or swollen joints, extreme fatigue, skin rashes, fever, and kidney problems. Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have now identified the main trigger for the development of this disease.

Lupus is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1288&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neural stem cell differentiation factor discovered</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/neural-stem-cell-differentiation-factor-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neural stem cells represent the cellular backup of our brain. These cells are capable of self-renewal to form new stem cells or differentiate into neurons, astrocytes or oligodendrocytes. Astrocytes have supportive functions in the environment of neurons, while oligodendrocytes form the myelin layer around axons in order to accelerate neuronal signal transmission.
But how does a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1286&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daily sex helps to reduce sperm DNA damage and improve fertility</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/daily-sex-helps-to-reduce-sperm-dna-damage-and-improve-fertility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Daily sex (or ejaculating daily) for seven days improves men&#8217;s sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage, according to an Australian study presented today (Tuesday) to the 25th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam.

Until now there has been no evidence-based consensus amongst fertility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1284&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helmholtz Zentrum München &#8211; German Research Center for Environmental Health</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/helmholtz-zentrum-munchen-german-research-center-for-environmental-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history—significantly longer lifespans. The discovery, featured on the cover of the July 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), shows that proper protein folding over time in long-lived bats explains why they live [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1282&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, even modern technologies have failed to produce high-resolution fluorescence images from this depth because of the strong scattering of light. In the Nature Photonics journal, the Munich researchers describe how they can reveal genetic expression within live fly larvae and fish by &#8220;listening to light&#8221;. In the future this technology may facilitate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1280&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metabolic factors may play a role in risk for breast cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/metabolic-factors-may-play-a-role-in-risk-for-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physiological changes associated with the metabolic syndrome may play a role in the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, according to study results published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &#38; Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

The metabolic syndrome, or insulin resistance syndrome, consists of a constellation of factors including abdominal obesity, high blood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1278&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Current search for heart disease treatment may not be fruitful</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/current-search-for-heart-disease-treatment-may-not-be-fruitful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A protein used by doctors to indicate a patient&#8217;s risk of coronary heart disease may have drug developers barking up the wrong treatment tree, according to the authors of a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Their research suggests that C-reactive protein, an enticing target for scientists working on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1277&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common diabetes drug may &#8216;revolutionize&#8217; cancer therapies</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/common-diabetes-drug-may-revolutionize-cancer-therapies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that a widely used anti-diabetic drug can boost the immune system and increase the potency of vaccines and cancer treatments. Their findings will be published June 3 in the journal Nature.
The scientists discovered that the widely prescribed diabetes treatment metformin increases the efficiency of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1275&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists discover new genetic immune disorder in children</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/scientists-discover-new-genetic-immune-disorder-in-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your immune system plays an important function in your health—it protects you against viruses, bacteria, and other toxins that can cause disease. In autoinflammatory diseases, however, the immune system goes awry, causing unprovoked and dangerous inflammation. Now, researchers from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1272&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reconstructing the evolution of laughter in great apes and humans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like human infants, young apes are known to hoot and holler when you tickle them. But is it fair to say that those playful calls are really laughter? The answer to that question is yes, say researchers reporting online on June 4th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.
&#8220;This study is the first phylogenetic test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1270&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists discover new way to enhance stem cells to stimulate muscle regeneration</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/scientists-discover-new-way-to-enhance-stem-cells-to-stimulate-muscle-regeneration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa have discovered a powerful new way to stimulate muscle regeneration, paving the way for new treatments for debilitating conditions such as muscular dystrophy.
The research, to be published in the June 5 issue of Cell Stem Cell, shows for the first time that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1267&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers test nanoparticle to treat cardiovascular disease in mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists and engineers at UC Santa Barbara and other researchers have developed a nanoparticle that can attack plaque –– a major cause of cardiovascular disease. The new development is described in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The treatment is promising for the eventual development of therapies for cardiovascular disease, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1264&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to posting exciting advances on biology and medicine</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/back-to-posting-exciting-advances-on-biology-and-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last three months, I neglected my posts here. However, I am now back to posting. As you can imagine there is a huge back log of articles, so expect an increase in the frequency of posts for some time, assuming I can keep up with them.
Thanks to all who find value from this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1260&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists’ Discovery Opens Door to Synthetic Life</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/scientists%e2%80%99-discovery-opens-door-to-synthetic-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard University scientists are a step closer to creating synthetic forms of life, part of a drive to design man-made organisms that may one day be used to help produce new fuels and create biotechnology drugs.
Researchers led by George Church, whose findings helped spur the U.S. human genome project in the 1980s, have copied the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1258&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zinc from supplements associated with reduced risk of advanced prostate cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/zinc-from-supplements-associated-with-reduced-risk-of-advanced-prostate-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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The March, 2009 issue of Nutrition and Cancer published the finding of Seattle&#8217;s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center of an association between long term consumption of zinc supplements and a reduced risk of advanced prostate cancer in men.
Prostate tissue contains ten times the level of zinc than other soft tissues in the body, while adenocarcinoma [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1257&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New and unexpected mechanism identifies how the brain responds to stress</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/new-and-unexpected-mechanism-identifies-how-the-brain-responds-to-stress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronic stress takes a physical and emotional toll on our bodies and scientists are working on piecing together a medical puzzle to understand how we respond to stress at the cellular level in the brain. Being able to quickly and successfully respond to stress is essential for survival.
Using a rat model, Jaideep Bains, PhD, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1255&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene therapy shows early promise for treating obesity</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/gene-therapy-shows-early-promise-for-treating-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With obesity reaching epidemic levels, researchers at the Ohio State University Medical Center are studying a potentially long-term treatment that involves injecting a gene directly into one of the critical feeding and weight control centers of the brain. 
&#8220;Obesity significantly increases the risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke and some cancers,&#8221; says Dr. Matthew During, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1253&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Bush Ban Gone, Stem Cell Research Will Proliferate</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/with-bush-ban-gone-stem-cell-research-will-proliferate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strange and confused chapter in the history of American medical research ended Monday morning, when President Obama signed an executive order ending a ban on federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell lines that were developed after August 9, 2001.
The ban has been roundly denounced as hypocritical and destructive, stunting advances in one of the most exciting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1250&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protein structure determined in living cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/protein-structure-determined-in-living-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The function of a protein is determined both by its structure and by its interaction partners in the cell. Until now, proteins had to be isolated for analyzing them. An international team of researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Goethe University, and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) has, for the first time, determined the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1248&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Show me your DNA and I&#8217;ll tell you your eye color</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/show-me-your-dna-and-ill-tell-you-your-eye-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more information is being gathered about how human genes influence medically relevant traits, such as the propensity to develop a certain disease. The ultimate goal is to predict whether or not a given trait will develop later in life from the genome sequence alone (i.e. from the sequence of the bases that make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1247&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New research reveals how cranberry products prevent urinary tract infections</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/new-research-reveals-how-cranberry-products-prevent-urinary-tract-infections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chemicals present in cranberries—and not the acidity of cranberry juice, as previously thought—prevent infection-causing bacteria from attaching to the cells that line the urinary tract, as documented in a report published in Journal of Medicinal Food, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) burden the healthcare system with more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1244&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live fast, die young? Maybe not</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/live-fast-die-young-maybe-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theory that a higher metabolism means a shorter lifespan may have reached the end of its own life, thanks to a study published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. The study, led by Lobke Vaanholt (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), found that mice with increased metabolism live just as long as those with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1242&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stem cell breakthrough gives new hope to sufferers of muscle-wasting diseases</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/stem-cell-breakthrough-gives-new-hope-to-sufferers-of-muscle-wasting-diseases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An experimental procedure that dramatically strengthens stem cells&#8217; ability to regenerate damaged tissue could offer new hope to sufferers of muscle-wasting diseases such as myopathy and muscular dystrophy, according to researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
The world-first procedure has been successfully used to regrow muscles in a mouse model, but it could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1241&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compound in broccoli may help protect against asthma and other respiratory disease</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/compound-in-broccoli-may-help-protect-against-asthma-and-other-respiratory-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the March, 2009 issue of Clinical Immunology, researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report that sulforaphane, a compound that occurs in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, may help protect against respiratory inflammation and the diseases it causes, including asthma, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1239&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thumbs up for 3D bone printer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/thumbs-up-for-3d-bone-printer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EXACT replicas of a man&#8217;s thumb bones have been made for the first time using a 3D printer. The breakthrough paves the way for surgeons to replace damaged or diseased bones with identical copies built from the patients&#8217; own cells.
&#8220;In theory, you could do any bone,&#8221; says Christian Weinand of the Insel Hospital in Berne, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1238&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The making of an intestinal stem cell</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/the-making-of-an-intestinal-stem-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found the factor that makes the difference between a stem cell in the intestine and any other cell. The discovery reported in the March 6th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, is an essential step toward understanding the biology of the stem cells, which are responsible for replenishing all other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1237&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enzyme behind cancer spread found</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/enzyme-behind-cancer-spread-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists say they have discovered a way to stop cancer spreading to other parts of the body.
Cancer metastasis, where the cancer spreads from its original location, is known to be responsible for 90% of cancer-related deaths.
Institute of Cancer Research scientists have found that an enzyme called LOX is crucial in promoting metastasis, Cancer Cell journal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1236&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breakthrough produces Parkinson&#8217;s patient-specific stem cells free of harmful reprogramming genes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/breakthrough-produces-parkinsons-patient-specific-stem-cells-free-of-harmful-reprogramming-genes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deploying a method that removes potentially cancer-causing genes, Whitehead Institute researchers have &#8220;reprogrammed&#8221; human skin cells from Parkinson&#8217;s disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. Whitehead scientists then used these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to create dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson&#8217;s disease patients.
This marks first time researchers have generated human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1234&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Personalized&#8217; genome sequencing reveals coding error in gene for inherited pancreatic cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/personalized-genome-sequencing-reveals-coding-error-in-gene-for-inherited-pancreatic-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used &#8220;personalized genome&#8221; sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a mutation in a gene called PALB2 that is responsible for initiating the disease. The discovery marks their first use of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1232&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new way to assemble cells into 3-D microtissues</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/a-new-way-to-assemble-cells-into-3-d-microtissues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can now control how cells connect with one another in vitro and assemble themselves into three-dimensional, multicellular microtissues. The researchers demonstrated their method by constructing a tailor-made artificial cell-signaling system, analogous to natural cell systems that communicate via growth factors.

Artificial tissues are presently used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1230&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not so sweet: Over-consumption of sugar linked to aging</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/not-so-sweet-over-consumption-of-sugar-linked-to-aging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that lifespan can be extended in animals by restricting calories such as sugar intake. Now, according to a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, Université de Montréal scientists have discovered that it&#8217;s not sugar itself that is important in this process but the ability of cells to sense its presence.
Aging is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1228&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic biology can help extend anti-malaria drug effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/synthetic-biology-can-help-extend-anti-malaria-drug-effectiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to providing a simple and much less expensive means of making artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today, synthetic biology can also help to extend the effectiveness of this drug. Fermenting artemisinin via engineered microbes, such as yeast, can be done at far lower costs than extracting the drug from Artemsisia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1226&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers identify a critical growth factor that stimulates sperm stem cells to thrive</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/researchers-identify-a-critical-growth-factor-that-stimulates-sperm-stem-cells-to-thrive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Pennsylvania State University have identified for the first time a specific &#8220;niche factor&#8221; in the mouse testes called colony stimulating factor 1, Csf1, that has a direct effect on sperm stem cell self-renewal. Moreover, the study shows that the origin of this growth factor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1223&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists engineer new type of vaccination that provides instant immunity</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/scientists-engineer-new-type-of-vaccination-that-provides-instant-immunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute has found a way to use specially programmed chemicals to elicit an immediate immune response in laboratory animals against two types of cancer. The experiments, thus far performed only in mice, appear to overcome a major drawback of vaccinations—the lag time of days, or even weeks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1221&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technique may help stem cells generate solid organs</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/technique-may-help-stem-cells-generate-solid-organs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stem cells can thrive in segments of well-vascularized tissue temporarily removed from laboratory animals, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Once the cells have nestled into the tissue&#8217;s nooks and crannies, the so-called &#8220;bioscaffold&#8221; can then be seamlessly reconnected to the animal&#8217;s circulatory system.
The new technique neatly sidesteps a fundamental stumbling block [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1219&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research Shows That Improving Brain Processing Speed Helps Memory</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/research-shows-that-improving-brain-processing-speed-helps-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of memory, compared to a control group. 
&#8220;What&#8217;s unique in this study is that brain-processing activities seemed to help aspects of memory that were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1217&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DETERMINING RISK FOR PANCREATIC CANCER</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/determining-risk-for-pancreatic-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest clinical trial for a technique to detect pancreatic cancer, researchers found they could differentiate cells that are cancerous from those that are benign, pre-cancerous, or even early stage indicators called mucinous cystic lesions.

Pancreatic cancer is dangerous to screen for, yet deadly if ignored. The pancreas is extremely sensitive&#8211;biopsies can lead to potentially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1216&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science grants rise with stimulus spending</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/science-grants-rise-with-stimulus-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stimulus bill was conceived as a way to jumpstart the economy with &#8217;shovel-ready&#8217; infrastructure and construction projects. At agencies such as the NSF and the Department of Energy&#8217;s (DoE) office of science, however, much of the money will be spent on grants, and details are emerging this week of how those grants will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1214&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greater carotenoid intake linked with longer cancer-free survival in breast cancer patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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The February, 2009 issue of the American Association for Cancer Research journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &#38; Prevention published the discovery of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Arizona, and other research centers of a positive effect of high carotenoid intake on recurrence-free survival in breast cancer patients. Carotenoids, such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1212&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multivitamin Use Not Associated With Women&#8217;s Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease or Death</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/multivitamin-use-not-associated-with-womens-risk-of-cancer-heart-disease-or-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postmenopausal women who take multivitamins appear to have the same risk of most common cancers, cardiovascular disease or dying of any cause as women who do not take multivitamin supplements, according to a report in the February 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. 
About half of Americans use dietary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1209&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial cells, simple model for complex structure</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/artificial-cells-simple-model-for-complex-structure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple, chemical materials model may lead to a better understanding of the structure and organization of the cell according to a Penn State researcher.
&#8220;Cells are interesting because they show organization even at the level of the cytoplasm, and while it is thought to be important for cell functions, it is not always clear how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1206&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next gen sequencing technology pinpoint &#8216;on-off switches&#8217; in genomes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/next-gen-sequencing-technology-pinpoint-on-off-switches-in-genomes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California, San Diego have developed a set of molecular tools that provide important insight into the complex genomes of multicellular organisms. The strategy promises to clarify the longstanding mystery of the role played by vast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1205&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skin Cells Reprogrammed As Heart Cells Beat in a Dish</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/skin-cells-reprogrammed-as-heart-cells-beat-in-a-dish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heart tissue is created by induced pluripotency, which genetically reprograms adult cells into a near-embryonic state, capable of becoming almost any cell type.

Video: University of Wisconsin
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		<title>Scientists read minds with infrared scan</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/scientists-read-minds-with-infrared-scan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Canada&#8217;s largest children&#8217;s rehabilitation hospital have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference – with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children who can&#8217;t speak or move.
In a study published this month in The Journal of Neural Engineering, Bloorview scientists demonstrate the ability to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1201&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In New Procedure, Artificial Arm Listens to Brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/in-new-procedure-artificial-arm-listens-to-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Kitts lost her left arm in a car accident three years ago, but these days she plays football with her 12-year-old son, and changes diapers and bearhugs children at the three Kiddie Cottage day care centers she owns in Knoxville, Tenn.
Ms. Kitts, 40, does this all with a new kind of artificial arm that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1199&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Early Signs of Arthritis</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/finding-early-signs-of-arthritis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atomic-force microscopy could advance osteoarthritis drug development. 
Osteoarthritis, which affects about 14 million people in the United States alone, occurs when cartilage between joints degrades and disappears, leaving joint bones to grind painfully against each other. Therapies can alleviate some of the pain, and some patients undergo joint replacements, but there is no cure. Now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1198&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super-Resolution Microscopy Takes on a Third Dimension</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/super-resolution-microscopy-takes-on-a-third-dimension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces the best three-dimensional resolution ever seen with an optical microscope.
With this new tool, scientists can pinpoint fluorescent labels in their images [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1196&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-regulating molecular &#8216;transformers&#8217; control intracellular protein delivery</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/self-regulating-molecular-transformers-control-intracellular-protein-delivery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the Transformer like properties of molecules responsible for carrying and depositing proteins to their correct locations within cells. The research could eventually lead to novel treatments for diseases that result from flaws in protein delivery as well as the development of new types of antibiotics.
Shu-ou [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1195&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new gene silencing platform &#8212; silence is golden</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/a-new-gene-silencing-platform-silence-is-golden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers led by Rutgers&#8217; Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new class of drugs to treat a wide array of diseases. Critical to the technology is the approach this team took to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1193&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A BETTER MESH: RESEARCHERS ‘TIGHTEN’ BODY’S PROTECTIVE COATING</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/a-better-mesh-researchers-%e2%80%98tighten%e2%80%99-body%e2%80%99s-protective-coating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A net with large holes won’t catch small fish. Likewise, the microscopic fibers in the protective mucus coatings of the eyes, lungs, stomach or reproductive system naturally bundle together and allow the tiniest disease-causing bugs, allergens or pollutants to slip by. But Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a way to chemically shrink the holes in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1190&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arginine shows promise against obesity</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/arginine-shows-promise-against-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
In research scheduled for presentation at the 11th International Symposium on Amino Acids, to be held in August, 2009 in Vienna, Austria, scientists at Texas A &#38; M University have shown that the amino acid arginine helps reduce fat gain in obese rats, a finding that may prove to be useful against human obesity. 
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1188&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Prophetic Brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/the-prophetic-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a commonly held belief that information from the outside world impinges upon our brains through our senses to cause perception, then action. But this reasonable assumption now appears to be false.
&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62; Article in SEED magazine
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		<title>Predicting Cancer Drugs&#8217; Impact</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/predicting-cancer-drugs-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New imaging probes show whether cancer drugs will work.



Devising the right chemotherapy regimen as soon as possible can spare cancer patients from painful side effects and increase their chances of survival. Two new imaging contrast agents could help by showing doctors whether a drug will reach the target tumor before it is administered.
&#62;&#62;&#62; Article in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1184&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers observe evolution chain reaction</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/researchers-observe-evolution-chain-reaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers are reporting the ongoing emergence of a new species of fruit fly&#8211;and the sequential development of a new species of wasp&#8211;in the February 6 issue of the journal Science.
Jeff Feder, a University of Notre Dame biologist, and his colleagues say the introduction of apples to America almost 400 years ago ultimately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1182&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of smoking linked to accelerated aging protein</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A University of Iowa study is apparently the first to make a connection between a rare, hereditary premature aging disease and cell damage that comes from smoking. The study results point to possible therapeutic targets for smoking-related diseases.
The investigation found that a key protein that is lost in Werner&#8217;s syndrome is decreased in smokers with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1179&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long-sought protein structure may help reveal how &#8216;gene switch&#8217; works</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/1177/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bacterium behind one of mankind&#8217;s deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the Commerce Department&#8217;s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Energy&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) move closer to answering the decades-old question of what controls the switching on and off of genes that carry out all of life&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1177&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An amazing case of parasitic twin: video of the operation</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/an-amazing-case-of-parasitic-twin-video-of-the-operation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating documentary about a toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Lakshmi(correction.) She is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs.
Lakshmi Tatma was born joined to a &#8216;parasitic twin&#8217; and will go under the knife at the hands of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1175&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genes That Fend Off Breast Cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/genes-that-fend-off-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women who carry mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a dramatically increased risk of developing breast cancer: a 36 to 85 percent chance of developing the disease during their lifetime, which is three to five times greater than the average risk rate. Ken Offit, chief of the clinical genetics service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1173&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Possible new drug target for obesity treatment</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/possible-new-drug-target-for-obesity-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/possible-new-drug-target-for-obesity-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered a gene that when mutated causes obesity by dampening the body&#8217;s ability to burn energy while leaving appetite unaffected.
The new research could potentially lead to new pharmacologic approaches to treating obesity in humans that do not target the brain, according to study senior author Yi Zhang, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1171&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Younger men with erectile dysfunction may be at increased risk for heart disease</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/younger-men-with-erectile-dysfunction-may-be-at-increased-risk-for-heart-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/younger-men-with-erectile-dysfunction-may-be-at-increased-risk-for-heart-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the February, 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings,  a study found that men between the ages of 40 and 49 who experience erectile dysfunction (ED) have a significantly higher risk of developing heart disease compared to those not affected by the condition.
The study builds on previous research published in the Journal of the American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1168&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singularity University to Study Accelerating Technologies, Launches at Silicon Valley</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/singularity-university-to-study-accelerating-technologies-launches-at-silicon-valley/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/singularity-university-to-study-accelerating-technologies-launches-at-silicon-valley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
With the support of NASA, Google and a broad range of technology thought leaders and entrepreneurs, a new university will launch in Silicon Valley this summer with the goal of preparing the next generation of leaders to address “humanity’s grand challenges.” Singularity University (SU) (www.singularityu.org) will open its doors in June 2009 on the NASA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1166&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living longer thanks to the &#8216;longevity gene&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/living-longer-thanks-to-the-longevity-gene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A variation in the gene FOXO3A has a positive effect on the life expectancy of humans, and is found much more often in people living to 100 and beyond – moreover, this appears to be true worldwide. A research group in the Faculty of Medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (CAU) has now confirmed this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1164&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grow Your Own Eggs and Sperm</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/grow-your-own-eggs-and-sperm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For couples who can&#8217;t seem to get pregnant, one of the more common causes is egg or sperm quality: sperm that never make it to the egg or that can&#8217;t fertilize it once they&#8217;re there, and eggs that resist fertilization or implantation in the uterine wall. Now, for the first time, scientists have turned adult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1157&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inflammation in colon may get doused by quercetin before fueling cancer development</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/inflammation-in-colon-may-get-doused-by-quercetin-before-fueling-cancer-development/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/inflammation-in-colon-may-get-doused-by-quercetin-before-fueling-cancer-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tiny molecule found in most plant-based foods douses the flames before damaging lesions can form in the colon, according to a study by Texas AgriLife Research scientist Dr. Nancy Turner.
Even better, the compound can be obtained easily by eating vegetables and fruit rather than by taking expensive prescriptions or supplements, Turner said.
The molecule is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1155&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cell-building discovery could reduce need for some animal research</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/cell-building-discovery-could-reduce-need-for-some-animal-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown University biomedical engineers can now grow and assemble living microtissues into complex three-dimensional structures in a way that will advance the field of tissue engineering and may eventually reduce the need for certain kinds of animal research.
The team, led by Brown professor Jeffrey Morgan, successfully used clusters of cells grown in a 3-D Petri [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1154&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Topical treatment wipes out herpes with RNAi</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/topical-treatment-wipes-out-herpes-with-rnai/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/topical-treatment-wipes-out-herpes-with-rnai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biotechnology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether condoms or abstinence, most efforts to prevent sexually transmitted diseases have a common logic: keep the pathogen out of your body altogether. While this approach is certainly reasonable enough, it doesn&#8217;t help the countless people worldwide who, for a number of reasons, are not in a position to control their sexual circumstances.
Now, Harvard Medical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1152&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fibroblasts invade at a snail&#8217;s pace</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/fibroblasts-invade-at-a-snails-pace/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/fibroblasts-invade-at-a-snails-pace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A transcription factor known to drive the formation of fibroblasts during development also promotes their ability to invade and remodel surrounding tissues, report Rowe et al. in the February 9, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.

The conversion of epithelial cells into fibroblast-like mesenchymal cells is a critical event in both normal development and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1149&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pavlov&#8217;s Neurons: Brain Cells That Are A Key To Learning Discovered</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/pavlovs-neurons-brain-cells-that-are-a-key-to-learning-discovered/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/pavlovs-neurons-brain-cells-that-are-a-key-to-learning-discovered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a century after Ivan Pavlov&#8217;s dog was conditioned to salivate when it heard the sound of a tone prior to receiving food, scientists have found neurons that are critical to how people and animals learn from experience.
Using a new imaging technique called Arc catFISH, researchers from the University of Washington have visualized individual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1027&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have the Results of Some Brain Scanning Experiments Been Overstated?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/have-the-results-of-some-brain-scanning-experiments-been-overstated/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/have-the-results-of-some-brain-scanning-experiments-been-overstated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Ed Vul is a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Intitute of Technology. He’s also the lead author of a recent paper, “Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience,” which explored the high correlations between measures of personality or emotionality in the individual—such as the experience of fear, or the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1146&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Studies point to novel target for treating arrhythmias</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/studies-point-to-novel-target-for-treating-arrhythmias/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/studies-point-to-novel-target-for-treating-arrhythmias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abnormal heart rhythms – arrhythmias – are killers. They strike without warning, causing sudden cardiac death, which accounts for about 10 percent of all deaths in the United States.
Vanderbilt investigators have discovered a new molecular mechanism associated with arrhythmias. Their findings, reported in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, could lead to novel arrhythmia treatments. 
&#8220;The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1144&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imaging study illustrates how memories change in the brain over time</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/imaging-study-illustrates-how-memories-change-in-the-brain-over-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new brain imaging study illustrates what happens to memories as time goes by. The study, in the January 28 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, shows that distinct brain structures are involved in recalling recent and older events.
The findings support earlier studies of memory-impaired patients with damage limited to the hippocampus. These patients show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1142&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nano-tetherball biosensor precisely detects glucose</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/nano-tetherball-biosensor-precisely-detects-glucose/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/nano-tetherball-biosensor-precisely-detects-glucose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have created a precise biosensor for detecting blood glucose and potentially many other biological molecules by using hollow structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes anchored to gold-coated &#8220;nanocubes.&#8221;
The device resembles a tiny cube-shaped tetherball. Each tetherball is a sensor and is anchored to electronic circuitry by a nanotube, which acts as both a tether and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1140&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The breakdown of barriers in old cells may hold clues to aging process</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/the-breakdown-of-barriers-in-old-cells-may-hold-clues-to-aging-process/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/the-breakdown-of-barriers-in-old-cells-may-hold-clues-to-aging-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like guards controlling access to a gated community, nuclear pore complexes are communication channels that regulate the passage of proteins and RNA to and from a cell&#8217;s nucleus. Recent studies by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies offer new insights about the pores&#8217; lifespan and how their longevity affects their function.
Their findings, reported [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1138&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fishy&#8217; clue helps establish how proteins evolve</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/fishy-clue-helps-establish-how-proteins-evolve/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/fishy-clue-helps-establish-how-proteins-evolve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three billion years ago, a &#8220;new&#8221; amino acid was added to the alphabet of 20 that commonly make up proteins in organisms today. Now researchers at Yale and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated how this rare amino acid — and, by example, other amino acids — made its way into the menu for protein [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1136&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers identify that the suppressor T cells limit stroke damage</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/researchers-identify-that-the-suppressor-t-cells-limit-stroke-damage/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/researchers-identify-that-the-suppressor-t-cells-limit-stroke-damage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research team including Serge Rivest of University Laval&#8217;s Faculty of Medicine has demonstrated the existence of a type of cells that limits brain damage after a stroke. The study was recently published in the online version of Nature Medicine.
Laboratory experiments showed that three days after a stroke, the affected area of the brain is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1134&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I feel your pain: Neural mechanisms of empathy</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/i-feel-your-pain-neural-mechanisms-of-empathy/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/i-feel-your-pain-neural-mechanisms-of-empathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to share a pain that you observe in another but have never actually experienced yourself? A new study uses a sophisticated brain-imaging technique to try and answer this question. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 29th issue of the journal Neuron, provides insight into brain mechanisms involved in empathy.
Brain-imaging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1132&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stretchy Electrodes Wire Up Cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/stretchy-electrodes-wire-up-cells/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/stretchy-electrodes-wire-up-cells/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New kinds of bioelectrodes will help researchers study beating hearts and brain trauma.
The cells of the heart can be stretched by as much as 100 percent with every beat. But traditional platforms for studying cells are static, limiting researchers&#8217; ability to study these cells in a realistic way in the lab. Now researchers at Purdue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1129&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New technology discovery holds promise for improved breast cancer treatment</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/new-technology-discovery-holds-promise-for-improved-breast-cancer-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/new-technology-discovery-holds-promise-for-improved-breast-cancer-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a study published by Nature Biotechnology online on February 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital researchers have unveiled a new technology tool that analyzes breast cancer tumours to determine a patient&#8217;s best treatment options. The tool can predict with more than 80 per cent accuracy a patient&#8217;s chance of recovering from breast cancer.
&#8220;Breast cancer is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1127&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists uncover new class of non-protein coding genes in mammals with key functions</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/scientists-uncover-new-class-of-non-protein-coding-genes-in-mammals-with-key-functions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has uncovered a vast new class of previously unrecognized mammalian genes that do not encode proteins, but instead function as long RNA molecules. Their findings, presented in the February 1st advance online issue of the journal Nature, demonstrate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1125&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural brain substance blocks weight gain in mice</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/natural-brain-substance-blocks-weight-gain-in-mice/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/natural-brain-substance-blocks-weight-gain-in-mice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mice with increased levels of a natural brain chemical don&#8217;t gain weight when fed a high-fat diet, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
The chemical, orexin, works by increasing the body&#8217;s sensitivity to the &#8220;weight-loss hormone,&#8221; leptin, the researchers report. 
Finding a way to boost the orexin system may prove useful as a therapy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1123&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Army&#8217;s Remote-Controlled Beetle</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/the-armys-remote-controlled-beetle/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/the-armys-remote-controlled-beetle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The insect&#8217;s flight path can be wirelessly controlled via a neural implant.



A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Scientists at the University of California developed a tiny rig that receives control signals from a nearby computer. Electrical signals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1119&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivating minds</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/motivating-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TO SOME there is nothing so urgent that it cannot be postponed in favour of a cup of tea. Such procrastination is a mystery to psychologists, who wonder why people would sabotage themselves in this way. A team of researchers led by Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz, in Germany, reckon they have found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1117&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists discover how cancer cells survive a chemotherapy drug</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/scientists-discover-how-cancer-cells-survive-a-chemotherapy-drug/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/scientists-discover-how-cancer-cells-survive-a-chemotherapy-drug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What separates the few cancer cells that survive chemotherapy – leaving the door open to recurrence – from those that don&#8217;t? Weizmann Institute scientists developed an original method for imaging and analyzing many thousands of living cells to reveal exactly how a chemotherapy drug affects each one. 
For research student Ariel Cohen, together with Naama [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1115&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Omega-3s ease depressive symptoms related to menopause</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/omega-3s-ease-depressive-symptoms-related-to-menopause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omega-3s ease psychological distress and depressive symptoms often suffered by menopausal and perimenopausal women, according to researchers at Université Laval&#8217;s Faculty of Medicine. Their study, published in the February issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, presents the first evidence that omega-3 supplements are effective for treating common menopause-related mental health problems.
Dr. Michel Lucas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1113&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Astrocytes regulate sleep pressure and memory deficits associated with sleep deprivation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered an unexpected brain mechanism that modulates the regulation of sleep and the consequences of sleep deprivation. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 29th issue of the journal Neuron, opens new avenues for development of treatments for disorders and cognitive deficits associated with sleep loss.
Glial cells are brain cells that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1110&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers identify new function of protein in cellular respiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that the protein Stat3 plays a key role in regulating mitochondria, the energy-producing machines of cells. This discovery could one day lead to the development of new treatments for heart disease to boost energy in failing heart muscle or to master the abnormal metabolism of cancer.
In the study, published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1108&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biologists find stem cell-like functions in other types of plant cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ordinary cells have the ability to replace lost organs in plants—a function previously thought to be limited to stem cells—researchers at New York University&#8217;s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have found. The findings, which suggest that some roles of stem cells in organ regeneration may be shared by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1106&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plums poised to give blueberries run for the money</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/plums-poised-to-give-blueberries-run-for-the-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an emerging star in the super-food world.
Plums are rolling down the food fashion runway sporting newly discovered high levels of healthy nutrients, say scientists at Texas AgriLife Research.
Plainly, &#8220;blueberries have some stiff competition,&#8221; said Dr. Luis Cisneros, AgriLife Research food scientist.&#8221;Stone fruits are super fruits, with plums as emerging stars.&#8221;
Far from fruit snobbery, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1104&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery could lead to a new animal model for hepatitis C</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/discovery-could-lead-to-a-new-animal-model-for-hepatitis-c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During its career, the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus has banked its success on a rather unusual strategy: its limitations. Its inability to infect animals other than humans and chimpanzees has severely hampered scientists in developing a useful small animal model for the disease. But now, in a breakthrough to be published in the January [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1098&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>research shows that newly discovered drug reduces heart enlargement</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/research-shows-that-newly-discovered-drug-reduces-heart-enlargement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered that a prototype drug reduces heart enlargement, one of the most common causes of heart failure.
Heart failure, which occurs when the heart can&#8217;t pump enough blood throughout the body, affects 5 million people in the United States. The condition contributes to 300,000 deaths each year. 
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		<title>Bioengineers develop novel method for accelerated bone growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have come up with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use of nanotubes and stem cells. This new finding could lead to quicker and better recovery, for example, for patients who undergo orthopedic surgery. 
In recent years, stem cells have become a hot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1094&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 Awesome Open Courses to Learn About the Human Body</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/100-awesome-open-courses-to-learn-about-the-human-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extensive and very nice compilation of biology and medical open-source courses.
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		<title>Human induced plurtipotent stem cells reprogrammed into germ cell precursors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time, UCLA researchers have reprogrammed human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the cells that eventually become eggs and sperm, possibly opening the door for new treatments for infertility using patient-specific cells.
The iPS cells were coaxed into forming germ line precursor cells which include genetic material that may be passed on to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1087&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sensor in artery measures blood pressure</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/sensor-in-artery-measures-blood-pressure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High blood pressure can be a trial of patience for doctors and for sufferers, whose blood pressure often has to be monitored over a long time until it can be regulated. This will now be made easier by a pressure sensor that is inserted in the femoral artery.




If a person’s blood flows through their arteries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1085&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Implants mimic infection to rally immune system against tumors</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/implants-mimic-infection-to-rally-immune-system-against-tumors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bioengineers at Harvard University have shown that small plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin can reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors.
The research &#8212; which ridded 90 percent of mice of an aggressive form of melanoma that would usually kill the rodents within 25 days &#8212; represents the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1082&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Glucose-Monitoring Tattoo</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/the-glucose-monitoring-tattoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a modern medical twist on an ancient art. Scientists at Draper Laboratory, in Cambridge, MA, are developing a nanosensor that could be injected into the skin, much like tattoo dye, to monitor an individual&#8217;s blood-sugar level. As the glucose level increases, the &#8220;tattoo&#8221; would fluoresce under an infrared light, telling a diabetic whether or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1077&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nicotine activates more than just the brain&#8217;s pleasure pathways</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/nicotine-activates-more-than-just-the-brains-pleasure-pathways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duke University Medical System researchers have discovered there are differing taste pathways for nicotine, which could provide a new approach for future smoking-cessation products.
Using genetic engineering and measurements of nervous system activity in mice, the researchers found that nicotine sends signals directly to the brain&#8217;s sensory systems by several pathways, similar to the way taste [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1075&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists unlock possible aging secret in genetically altered fruit fly</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/scientists-unlock-possible-aging-secret-in-genetically-altered-fruit-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown University researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that could someday help fight the aging process.
The finding by Stephen Helfand and Nicola Neretti and others adds another piece to the puzzle that Helfand, a professor of biology, molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, first discovered in 2000. Back then, he identified a mutation in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1073&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Obama</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/letter-to-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-nine American Nobel laureates and other distinguished American scientists call the president&#8217;s attention to the importance of increasing federal funding for scientific research.
&#62;&#62;&#62; Article at Seed

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		<title>The Power of Berries</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/the-power-of-berries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several studies show that people who eat diets high in fruits and vegetables have lower cancer rates. Now a large body of research suggests that berries may be among the most potent cancer-fighting fruits.
&#62;&#62;&#62;  Article : New York Times
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		<title>Researchers identify 4 genetic hotspots associated with psoriasis</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/researchers-identify-4-genetic-hotspots-associated-with-psoriasis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A genomewide scan of millions of genetic mutations has revealed four new DNA &#8220;hotspots&#8221; that affect the risk for psoriasis.
Appearing Jan. 25 in Nature Genetics online, the study also confirmed that two other previously identified DNA sites, discovered by researchers at the University of Utah and Celera Group, have a high association with psoriasis, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1060&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statins may treat blood vessel disorder that can lead to fatal strokes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/statins-may-treat-blood-vessel-disorder-that-can-lead-to-fatal-strokes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a finding that could save thousands of lives a year, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have shown that a blood vessel disorder leading to unpredictable, sometimes fatal, hemorrhagic strokes, seizures, paralysis or other problems is treatable with the same statin drugs that millions of people take to control high cholesterol.
If the results [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1059&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene may lead to early onset of brain tumor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People with a particular gene variant may be more likely to develop brain tumors, and at an earlier age, than people without the gene, according to a study published in  Neurology.
The study involved 254 people with brain tumors and 238 people with no cancers. All those with tumors had glioblastoma multiforme, the most common type [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1057&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Major immune system branch has hidden ability to learn</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/major-immune-system-branch-has-hidden-ability-to-learnmajor-immune-system-branch-has-hidden-ability-to-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half of the immune system has a hidden talent, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered.
They found the innate immune system, long recognized as a specialist in rapidly and aggressively combating invaders, has cells that can learn from experience and fight better when called into battle a second time. Scientists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1055&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting salt isn&#8217;t the only way to reduce blood pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people know that too much sodium from foods can increase blood pressure.
A new study suggests that people trying to lower their blood pressure should also boost their intake of potassium, which has the opposite effect to sodium.
Researchers found that the ratio of sodium-to-potassium in subjects&#8217; urine was a much stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1053&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural selection is not the only process that drives evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why have some of our genes evolved rapidly? It is widely believed that Darwinian natural selection is responsible, but research led by a group at Uppsala University, suggests that a separate neutral (nonadaptive) process has made a significant contribution to human evolution. Their results have been published today in the journal PLoS Biology.
The researchers identified [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1051&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling your words: Hearing with your face</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/feeling-your-words-hearing-with-your-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research laboratory.

Caption: This is a listener wired for sounds.
Credit: Takayuki Ito [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1047&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer-causing gene discovery suggests new therapies</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/cancer-causing-gene-discovery-suggests-new-therapies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered a novel way by which a much-studied cancer-promoting gene accelerates the disease. The finding suggests a new strategy to halt cancer&#8217;s progress.
Up to now, research has largely focused on how the mutated gene, Myc, disrupts the ability of DNA to be &#8220;transcribed&#8221; into RNA – the first step in making proteins that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1045&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Warrior Gene&#8217; Predicts Aggressive Behavior After Provocation</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/warrior-gene-predicts-aggressive-behavior-after-provocation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Individuals with the so-called “warrior gene” display higher levels of aggression in response to provocation, according to new research co-authored by Rose McDermott, professor of political science at Brown University. In the experiment, which is the first to examine a behavioral measure of aggression in response to provocation, subjects were asked to cause physical pain to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1039&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helicos High Speed Gene Sequencing</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/3d-medical-animation-antibody-immune-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/nanotubes-sniff-out-cancer-agents-in-living-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
The sensors, made of carbon nanotubes wrapped in DNA, can detect chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin as well as environmental toxins and free radicals that damage DNA.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve made a sensor that can be placed in living cells, healthy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1032&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New genes suggest obesity is in your head, not your gut</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/brain-genes-associated-with-increased-body-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A genetic study of more than 90,000 people has identified six new genetic variants that are associated with increased Body Mass Index (BMI), the most commonly used measure of obesity. Five of the genes are known to be active in the brain, suggesting that many genetic variants implicated in obesity might affect behaviour, rather than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1029&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harnessing miRNA Natural Gene Repressors For Anticancer Therapy</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/harnessing-mirna-natural-gene-repressors-for-anticancer-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michel Sadelain and colleagues, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, have developed a new approach to modulate the expression of genes for therapeutic purposes, and used this to mediate effective anticancer therapy in mice.
Their study is published online, Dec. 1, 2008, in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Small, noncoding RNA molecules known as miRNAs are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1025&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silencing growth inhibitors could help recovery from brain injury</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/silencing-growth-inhibitors-could-help-recovery-from-brain-injury/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/silencing-growth-inhibitors-could-help-recovery-from-brain-injury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silencing natural growth inhibitors may make it possible to regenerate nerves damaged by brain or spinal cord injury, finds a study from Children&#8217;s Hospital Boston. In a mouse study published in the November 7 issue of Science, researchers temporarily silenced genes that prevent mature neurons from regenerating, and caused them to recover and re-grow vigorously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1022&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/new-hope-for-multiple-sclerosis-sufferers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A drug which was developed in Cambridge and initially designed to treat a form of leukaemia has also proven effective against combating the debilitating neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS).
The study, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge, has found that alemtuzumab not only stops MS from advancing in patients with early stage active relapsing-remitting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1018&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How eating fruit and vegetables can improve cancer patients&#8217; response to chemotherapy</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/how-eating-fruit-and-vegetables-can-improve-cancer-patients-response-to-chemotherapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells.
Now a study by UC Riverside biochemists that focuses on cancer cells reports that ingesting apigenin – a naturally occurring dietary agent found in vegetables [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1016&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists find potential strategy to eliminate poisonous protein from Alzheimer brains</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/scientists-find-potential-strategy-to-eliminate-poisonous-protein-from-alzheimer-brains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified a new strategy to destroy amyloid-beta (AB) proteins, which are widely believed to cause Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD). Li Gan, PhD, and her coworkers discovered that the activity of a potent AB-degrading enzyme can be unleashed in mouse models of the disease by reducing its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1014&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research uncovers new steps on pathway to enlarged heart</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/research-uncovers-new-steps-on-pathway-to-enlarged-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have new insight into the mechanisms that underlie a pathological increase in the size of the heart. The research, published by Cell Press in the October 24th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, may lead to the development of new strategies for managing this extremely common cardiac ailment that often leads to heart failure.
High [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1012&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemists devise self-assembling &#8216;organic wires&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/chemists-devise-self-assembling-organic-wires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient&#8217;s body can&#8217;t discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by organic electronics read like something from a science fiction novel.
Derived from carbon-based compounds (hence the term &#8220;organic&#8221;), these &#8220;soft&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1010&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green tea may delay onset of type 1 diabetes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/green-tea-may-delay-onset-of-type-1-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A powerful antioxidant in green tea may prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Researchers were testing EGCG, green tea&#8217;s predominant antioxidant, in a laboratory mouse with type 1 diabetes and primary Sjogren&#8217;s syndrome, which damages moisture-producing glands, causing dry mouth and eyes. 
&#8220;Our study focused on Sjogren&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1008&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene therapy restores vision to mice with retinal degeneration</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/gene-therapy-restores-vision-to-mice-with-retinal-degeneration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have used gene therapy to restore useful vision to mice with degeneration of the light-sensing retinal rods and cones, a common cause of human blindness. Their report, appearing in the Oct. 14 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes the effects of broadly expressing a light-sensitive protein in other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1006&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New class of antibiotics may lead to therapy for drug-resistant tuberculosis</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/new-class-of-antibiotics-may-lead-to-therapy-for-drug-resistant-tuberculosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers are hot on the trail of a whole new class of broad-spectrum antibiotics, according to a new report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
The discovery holds promise at a time when a quarter of all deaths worldwide are the result of bacterial infectious diseases, and yet more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1004&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers identify Achilles heel of common childhood tumor</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/researchers-identify-achilles-heel-of-common-childhood-tumor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered a mechanism for the rapid growth seen in infantile hemangioma, the most common childhood tumor.
The tumors, which are made up of proliferating blood vessels, affect up to 10 percent of children of European descent, with girls more frequently afflicted than boys. The growths appear within days of birth—most often as a single, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1002&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Computer model reveals cells&#8217; inner workings</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/computer-model-reveals-cells-inner-workings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending years developing a computational model to help illuminate cell signaling pathways, a team of MIT researchers decided to see what would happen if they &#8220;broke&#8221; the model.
The results, reported in the Oct. 17 issue of the journal Cell, reveal new ways in which cells process chemical information and could indicate how to maximize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=1000&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could Dr. House be replaced by a computer?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/could-dr-house-be-replaced-by-a-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists know that different normal and diseased tissues behave differently. But a method that tells them just how they do so may one day give medical science a new way to fight obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other dangerous disorders of the metabolism.
Until now, scientists had to rely on basic observations at the cellular level, since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=998&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Border control: Study shows how proteins permit entry to a cell</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/border-control-study-shows-how-proteins-permit-entry-to-a-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The means by which proteins provide a &#8216;border control&#8217; service, allowing cells to take up chemicals and substances from their surroundings, whilst keeping others out, is revealed in unprecedented molecular detail for the first time today (16 October) in Science Express.
The scientists behind the new study have visualised the structure of a protein called Microbacterium [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=996&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emotion and scent create lasting memories &#8211; even in a sleeping brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When French memoirist Marcel Proust dipped a pastry into his tea, the distinctive scent it produced suddenly opened the flood gates of his memory.
In a series of experiments with sleeping mice, researchers at the Duke University Medical Center have shown that the part of the brain that processes scents is indeed a key part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=994&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brains Brains!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bioengineers build first-ever multi-input &#8216;plug-and-play&#8217; synthetic RNA device</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/bioengineers-build-first-ever-multi-input-plug-and-play-synthetic-rna-device/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a &#8220;plug-and-play&#8221; synthetic RNA device&#8211;a sort of eminently customizable biological computer&#8211;that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one biological or environmental signal at a time.
In the future, such devices could have a multitude of potential medical applications, including being used as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=990&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers successfully reprogram keratinocytes attached to a single hair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first reports of the successful reprogramming of adult human cells back into so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which by all appearances looked and acted liked embryonic stem cells created a media stir. But the process was woefully inefficient: Only one out of 10,000 cells could be persuaded to turn back the clock.
Now, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=988&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waste from gut bacteria helps host control weight</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/waste-from-gut-bacteria-helps-host-control-weight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A single molecule in the intestinal wall, activated by the waste products from gut bacteria, plays a large role in controlling whether the host animals are lean or fatty, a research team, including scientists from UT Southwestern Medical Center, has found in a mouse study.
When activated, the molecule slows the movement of food through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=986&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nanotechnology boosts war on superbugs</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/nanotechnology-boosts-war-on-superbugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Nature Nanotechnology journal (October 12th) reveals how scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to investigate the workings of vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics that can be used to combat increasingly resistant infections such as MRSA. The researchers, led by Dr Rachel McKendry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=984&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/weight-loss-surgery-cuts-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its already known that weight-loss surgery for morbid obesity can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart problems. Now, new research shows that it may also cut a persons risk of cancer by 80-percent. 



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		<title>Scientists eliminate viral vector in stem cell reprogramming</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/scientists-eliminate-viral-vector-in-stem-cell-reprogramming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, had shown that adult cells can be reprogrammed to become embryonic stem cell–like using a cancer-causing oncogene as one of the four genes required to reprogram the cells, and a virus to transfer the genes into the cells. In the last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=980&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists develop sensitive nanowire disease detectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Letters.
The sensors use activation of immune cells by highly specific antigens — signatures of bacteria, viruses or cancer cells — as the detector. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=978&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can genetic information be controlled by light?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DNA, the molecule that acts as the carrier of genetic information in all forms of life, is highly resistant against alteration by ultraviolet light, but understanding the mechanism for its photostability presents some puzzling problems. A key aspect is the interaction between the four chemical bases that make up the DNA molecule. Researchers at Kiel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=976&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study unlocks stem cell DNA secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a groundbreaking study led by an eminent molecular biologist at Florida State University, researchers have discovered that as embryonic stem cells turn into different cell types, there are dramatic corresponding changes to the order in which DNA is replicated and reorganized.
The findings bridge a critical knowledge gap for stem cell biologists, enabling them to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=974&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fat-regenerating &#8217;stem cells&#8217; found in mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew themselves, transplants of the progenitor cells isolated from the fat tissue of normal mice can restore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=972&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists identify gene that may make humans more vulnerable to pulmonary tuberculosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and its collaborators have now identified for the first time a new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis. Their findings, published October 10 in the open access journal PLoS Genetics, reported that a gene named Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8), previously shown only to recognize some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=970&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spectacular video of zebrafish embryo developing in 24 hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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German scientists published new work on zebrafish embryonic development. This time-lapse video shows the zebrafish from 64 cells into development to 20,000 cells. For more information, visit the lab&#8217;s home page: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/digital&#8230;
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		<title>Searching For HIV&#8217;s Achilles Heel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it so hard to make an HIV vaccine? Dr. John Coffin, who is one of the fathers of modern retrovirology,  Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University asks in his insightful blog article, full of humor and historical metaphors. Dr. Coffin proposes that the answer to this question, which has eluded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=964&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The role of stem cells in renewing the cornea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of researchers in Switzerland has published a study appearing in the Oct 1 advance online edition of the Journal Nature that shows how the cornea uses stem cells to repair itself.
Using mouse models they demonstrate that everyday wear and tear on the cornea is repaired from stem cells residing in the corneal epithelium, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=962&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biology in Pictures: Clot forming in artery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Clot forming in artery on Flickr &#8211; Photo Sharing!.
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		<title>When a light goes on during thought processes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought processes made visible: An international team of scientists headed by Mazahir Hasan of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in optically detecting individual action potentials in the brains of living animals.
The scientists introduced fluorescent indicator proteins into the brain cells of mice via viral gene vectors: the illumination of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.wordpress.com&blog=38725&post=957&subd=biosingularity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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