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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Major Step Forward In Understanding How Memory Works</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/major-step-forward-in-understanding-how-memory-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our ability to remember the objects, places and people within our environment is essential for everyday life, although the importance of this is only fully appreciated when recognition memory beings to fail, as in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.
By blocking certain mechanisms that control the way that nerve cells in the brain communicate, scientists from the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers unmask proteins in telomerase, a substance that enables cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/researchers-unmask-proteins-in-telomerase-a-substance-that-enables-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the more intriguing workhorses of the cell, a protein conglomerate called telomerase, has in its short history been implicated in some critical areas of medicine including cancer, aging and keeping stem cells healthy. With such a resume, telomerase has been the subject of avid interest by basic scientists and pharmaceutical companies alike, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists create &#8216;designer enzymes&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Chemists from UCLA and the University of Washington have succeeded in creating &#8220;designer enzymes,&#8221; a major milestone in computational chemistry and protein engineering.
Designer enzymes will have applications for defense against biological warfare, by deactivating pathogenic biological agents, and for creating more effective medications.

The research, by a UCLA chemistry group led by professor Kendall Houk and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s Last Message to Humanity</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/arthur-c-clarkes-last-message-to-humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s best known writer of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke was the first to propose satellite communications in 1945. One of his short stories inspired the World Wide Web, while another was later expanded to make the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-wrote with director Stanley Kubrick. He has lived in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/steven-pinker-the-stuff-of-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive preview of his new book, The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analyzing common sentences and words, he shows us how, in what we say and how we say it, we&#8217;re communicating much more than we realize 
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		<title>US stands to lose a generation of young researchers</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/us-stands-to-lose-a-generation-of-young-researchers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Five consecutive years of flat funding the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is deterring promising young researchers and threatening the future of Americans’ health, a group of seven preeminent academic research institutions warned today. In a new report released here, the group of concerned institutions (six research universities and a major teaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity chokes up the cellular power plant</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/obesity-chokes-up-the-cellular-power-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
		
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The machinery responsible for energy production in fat cells is working poorly as a result of obesity. Finnish research done at the University of Helsinki and the National Public Health Institute shows that this may aggravate and work to maintain the obese state in humans.

Studying rare cases of young (25 year old) identical twins with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists identify new longevity genes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/scientists-identify-new-longevity-genes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Scientists at the University of Washington and other institutions have identified 25 genes regulating lifespan in two organisms separated by about 1.5 billion years in evolutionary change. At least 15 of those genes have very similar versions in humans, suggesting that scientists may be able to target those genes to help slow down the aging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/craig-venter-on-the-verge-of-creating-synthetic-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/craig-venter-on-the-verge-of-creating-synthetic-life/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can we create new life out of our digital universe?&#8221; asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into &#8220;fourth-generation fuels&#8221; &#8212; biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups of neurons in the brain rewire by changing images</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/groups-of-neurons-in-the-brain-rewire-by-changing-images/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Neuroscientists studying the mind&#8217;s ability to process images have completed the first empirical study to demonstrate, using animal models, how populations of nerve cells in visual cortex adapt to changing images. Their findings could lead to sight-improving therapies for people following trauma or stroke. The study at The University of Texas Health Science Center at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soy compound may halt spread of prostate cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/soy-compound-may-halt-spread-of-prostate-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
		
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A compound found in soybeans almost completely prevented the spread of human prostate cancer in mice, according to a study published in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Researchers say that the amount of the chemical, an antioxidant known as genistein, used in the experiments was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genes that protect against atherosclerosis identified</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/genes-that-protect-against-atherosclerosis-identified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cholesterol]]></category>

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One way of combating atherosclerosis is to reduce levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood. Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now identified the genes that bring about this beneficial effect.

In a new study on mice, which is presented in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, the research group has shown that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New chemical can kill latent tuberculosis bacteria</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/new-chemical-can-kill-latent-tuberculosis-bacteria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
		
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Success in the laboratory suggests that a new compound can point the way to preventing active tuberculosis in people infected with the latent form of the bacterium, says a team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. A drug with such properties could also be useful in treating people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fascinating split brain behavioral experiments</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/fascinating-split-brain-behavioral-experiments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway. This is an extraordinary insight into the machinary of the mind. Here&#8217;s what happens as a result:

   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers make first direct observation of 3-D molecule folding in real time</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/researchers-make-first-direct-observation-of-3-d-molecule-folding-in-real-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Snowcrash</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[All the crucial proteins in our bodies must fold into complex shapes to do their jobs. These snarled molecules grip other molecules to move them around, to speed up important chemical reactions or to grab onto our genes, turning them &#8220;on&#8221; and &#8220;off&#8221; to affect which proteins our cells make.

Recently, scientists have discovered that RNA-the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What gives us fingertip dexterity?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/what-gives-us-fingertip-dexterity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a novel experiment, a USC biomedical engineer examines the intricate circuitry between hand manipulation skills and specialized neural circuits in the brain
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But researchers at the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military-grade gel-based liquid bandages: new frontline wound treatment</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/military-grade-gel-based-liquid-bandages-new-frontline-wound-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GelSpray Liquid Bandage is a major advance in the management and care of combat casualty and civilian wounds. Much like epoxy is dispensed in household kits, the dressing is applied with a dual syringe that releases two polymer ingredients. These polymers react rapidly upon mixing to form a gel-based dressing that frontline combat soldiers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lab-on-a-Chip Breaks Protein-Expression Bottleneck</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/lab-on-a-chip-breaks-protein-expression-bottleneck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nucleic Acid Programmable Protein Array (NAPPA) was developed at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics and led to the spin-out of Auguron about a year ago. The firm says this technology enables proteins from any gene in the genome to be generated on microchips from surface printed DNA.

According to the Harvard Institute of Proteomics, existing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers find trigger gene for muscle development</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/researchers-find-trigger-gene-for-muscle-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Oregon scientists say they have identified a gene that is the key switch that allows embryonic cells to form into muscles in zebrafish.

Graphic depicts protein interaction in muscle formation: The bottom embryo is normal, not yet expressing the early muscle genes. In the top embryo, researchers forced early expression of Smarcd3, which switches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative and noncreative problem solvers exhibit different patterns of brain activity</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/creative-and-noncreative-problem-solvers-exhibit-different-patterns-of-brain-activity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some people solve problems more creatively than others? Are people who think creatively somehow different from those who tend to think in a more methodical fashion?
These questions are part of a long-standing debate, with some researchers arguing that what we call “creative thought” and “noncreative thought” are not basically different. If this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New MIT tool probes brain circuits</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/new-mit-tool-probes-brain-circuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Jan. 24 online edition of Science that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of blocking and unblocking a single neural circuit in a living animal.
This revolutionary method allowed Susumu Tonegawa, Picower Professor of Biology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Telepathic&#8217; Genes Recognize Similarities In Each Other</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/telepathic-genes-recognize-similarities-in-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genes have the ability to recognise similarities in each other from a distance, without any proteins or other biological molecules aiding the process, according to new research. This discovery could explain how similar genes find each other and group together in order to perform key processes involved in the evolution of species.

This new study shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly Engineered Genetic Switches Enhance Production Of Proteins, Pharmaceuticals</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/newly-engineered-genetic-switches-enhance-production-of-proteins-pharmaceuticals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bacteria have evolved complex mechanisms called quorum sensing systems that provide for cell-to-cell communication, an adaptation that allows them to wait until their population grows large enough before mounting an attack on a host or competing for nutrients. Lianhong Sun, a chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has engineered one of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camera In A Pill Offers Cheaper, Easier Window To Your Insides</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/camera-in-a-pill-offers-cheaper-easier-window-to-your-insides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect the earliest signs of cancer? The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality, color pictures in confined spaces. Such a device could find warning signs of esophageal cancer, the fastest growing cancer in the United States.
A fundamentally new design has created a smaller endoscope that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The missing link between belly fat and heart disease?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/the-missing-link-between-belly-fat-and-heart-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, everyone knows that overweight people have a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and other problems that arise from clogged, hardened arteries. And people who carry their extra weight around their waist – giving them a “beer belly” or an “apple” shape &#8212; have the highest risk of all.But despite the impact on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JoVE: Youtube for scientists</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/jove-youtube-for-scientists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following JoVE is the Journal of Visualized Experiments, for some time. This very unique &#8220;video journal&#8221; focuses on publishing videos of experimental procedures in life sciences. 
Today I learned JoVE may soon be indexed on Pubmed, which will give it a credibility of peer reviewed scientific journal. Apparently they have also signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elusive pancreatic stem cells found in adult mice</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/elusive-pancreatic-stem-cells-found-in-adult-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as many scientists had given up the search, researchers have discovered that the pancreas does indeed harbor stem cells with the capacity to generate new insulin-producing beta cells. If the finding made in adult mice holds for humans, the newfound progenitor cells will represent an obvious target for therapeutic regeneration of beta cells in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protein that controls hair growth also keeps stem cells slumbering</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/protein-that-controls-hair-growth-also-keeps-stem-cells-slumbering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like fine china and crystal, which tend to be used sparingly, stem cells divide infrequently. It was thought they did so to protect themselves from unnecessary wear and tear. But now new research from Rockefeller University has unveiled the protein that puts the brakes on stem cell division and shows that stem cells may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Create the First Synthetic Bacterial Genome</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/scientists-create-first-synthetic-bacterial-genome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of 17 researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has created the largest man-made DNA structure by synthesizing and assembling the 582,970 base pair genome of a bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0. This work, published online today in the journal Science by Dan Gibson, Ph.D., et al, is the second of three key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low vitamin E levels associated with physical decline in elderly</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/low-vitamin-e-levels-associated-with-physical-decline-in-elderly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that a low concentration of vitamin E in the blood is linked with physical decline in older persons.

Published in the January 23 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, the study included 698 people age 65 or older who were randomly selected from the population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stem-cell transplantation improves muscles in muscular dystrophy animal model</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/stem-cell-transplantation-improves-muscles-in-md-animal-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Using embryonic stem cells from mice, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have prompted the growth of healthy – and more importantly, functioning – muscle cells in mice afflicted with a human model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The study represents the first time transplanted embryonic stem cells have been shown to restore function to defective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why fish oil is good for you</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/why-fish-oil-is-good-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s good news that we are living longer, but bad news that the longer we live, the better our odds of developing late-onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.
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Many Alzheimer&#8217;s researchers have long touted fish oil, by pill or diet, as an accessible and inexpensive &#8220;weapon&#8221; that may delay or prevent this debilitating disease. Now, UCLA scientists have confirmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programming Biomolecular Self-Assembly Pathways</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/programming-biomolecular-self-assembly-pathways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Nature knows how to make proteins and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) dance to assemble and sustain life. Inspired by this proof of principle, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have demonstrated that it is possible to program the pathways by which DNA strands self-assemble and disassemble, and hence to control the dynamic function [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists restore walking after spinal cord injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord. For the first time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People not always needed to alleviate loneliness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
“Biological reproduction is not a very efficient way to alleviate one’s loneliness, but you can make up people when you’re motivated to do so,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/contact-lenses-with-circuits-lights-a-possible-platform-for-superhuman-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes – visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineers create carbon nanopipettes that are smaller than cells and measure electric current</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/engineers-create-carbon-nanopipettes-that-are-smaller-than-cells-and-measure-electric-current/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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University of Pennsylvania engineers and physicians have developed a carbon nanopipette thousands of times thinner than a human hair that measures electric current and delivers fluids into cells. Researchers developed this tiny carbon-based tool to probe cells with minimal intrusion and inject fluids without damaging or inhibiting cell growth.
 
 

Caption: From top to bottom: the carbon pipe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Molecular Biology Visualization of DNA (Animation)</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/molecular-biology-visualization-of-dna-animation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very informative animation of how DNA is packaged and replicated within the cell nucleus.   
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		<title>Lipoic acid could reduce atherosclerosis, weight gain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/lipoic-acid-could-reduce-atherosclerosis-weight-gain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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A new study done with mice has discovered that supplements of lipoic acid can inhibit formation of arterial lesions, lower triglycerides, and reduce blood vessel inflammation and weight gain – all key issues for addressing cardiovascular disease.
Although the results cannot be directly extrapolated beyond the laboratory, researchers report that “they strongly suggest that lipoic acid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanotechnology innovation may revolutionize gene detection in a single cell</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/nanotechnology-innovation-may-revolutionize-gene-detection-in-a-single-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Scientists at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have developed the world’s first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. The results, appearing in the January 11 issue of the journal Science, could have broad implications for gene chip technology and may also revolutionize the way in which gene expression is analyzed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biohacking and programming DNA</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/biohacking-and-programming-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biological engineering does not have to be confined to the laboratories of high-end industry laboratories. Rather, it is desirable to foster a more open culture of biological technology. This talk is an effort to do so; it aims to equip you with basic practical knowledge of biological engineering.  
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		<title>Scientists find that culture influences brain function</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the first brain imaging study of its kind.
Psychological research has established that American culture, which values the individual, emphasizes the independence of objects from their contexts, while East Asian societies emphasize the collective and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beating Heart Created In Laboratory: Method May Revolutionize How Organ Tissues Are Developed</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/beating-heart-created-in-laboratory-method-may-revolutionize-how-organ-tissues-are-developed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The research will be published online in the January 13 issue of Nature Medicine.

“The idea would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging gracefully requires taking out the trash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Suppressing a cellular cleanup-mechanism known as autophagy can accelerate the accumulation of protein aggregates that leads to neural degeneration. In an upcoming issue of Autophagy, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report for the first time that the opposite is true as well: Boosting autophagy in the nervous system of fruit flies prevented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkeys can perform mental addition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated that monkeys have the ability to perform mental addition. In fact, monkeys performed about as well as college students given the same test.
The findings shed light on the shared evolutionary origins of arithmetic ability in humans and non-human animals, according to Assistant Professor Elizabeth Brannon, Ph.D. and Jessica Cantlon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers create mathematical model of fruit fly eyes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/researchers-create-mathematical-model-of-fruit-fly-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal.
Researchers at Northwestern University have now created a functional equation &#8212; using only two parameters &#8212; to show how cells pack together to create the eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10-fold life span extension reported in simple organism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biologists have created baker’s yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects. The basic but important discovery, achieved through a combination of dietary and genetic changes, brings science closer to controlling the survival and health of the unit of all living systems: the cell.

The study is scheduled to appear in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) song by Scientists for Better PCR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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This is &#8220;The PCR Song&#8221; by &#8220;Scientists for a Better PCR&#8221;. It was done by the good folks at Bio-Rad to promote their 1000 Series Thermal Cyclers (a pcr machine). This is probably the best geek ad  and will provide laughs to all (especially those who remember when pcr meant dipping your samples in individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New clinical trial results show how personalized medicine will alter treatment of genetic disorders</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/new-clinical-trial-results-show-how-personalized-medicine-will-alter-treatment-of-genetic-disorders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the nation’s pre-eminent genetic researchers, Eric Hoffman, PhD, of Children’s Research Institute at Children’s National Medical Center, predicts that in relatively short order, medicine’s next innovation&#8211;individualized molecular therapies&#8211;will have the unprecedented ability to treat muscular dystrophies, and other disorders.

In the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Hoffman posits that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genomic screen nets hundreds of human proteins exploited by HIV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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In some ways, HIV resembles a minimalist painter, using a few basic components to achieve dramatic effects. The virus contains just nine genes encoding 15 proteins, which wreak havoc on the human immune system. But this bare bones approach could have a fatal flaw. Lacking robust machinery, HIV hijacks human proteins to propagate, and these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat less or exercise more? Either way leads to more youthful hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Overweight people who lose a moderate amount of weight get an immediate benefit in the form of better heart health, according to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. And the heart improvements happen whether that weight is shed by eating less or exercising more.

&#8220;If individuals want to do something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug that targets cannabinoid receptors cuts appetite, burns more energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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The first clinical studies of an experimental drug have revealed that obese people who take it for 12 weeks lose weight, even at very low doses. Short-term studies also suggest that the drug, called taranabant—the second drug designed to fight obesity by blocking cannabinoid receptors in the brain—causes people to consume fewer calories and burn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New insight into factors that drive muscle-building stem cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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A report in the January issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press, provides new evidence explaining how stem cells known as satellite cells contribute to building muscles up in response to exercise. These findings could lead to treatments for reversing or improving the muscle loss that occurs in diseases such as cancer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oatmeal&#8217;s health claims strongly reaffirmed, science shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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A new scientific review of the most current research shows the link between eating oatmeal and cholesterol reduction to be stronger than when the FDA initially approved the health claim&#8217;s appearance on food labels in 1997.

Dr. James W. Anderson, professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, co-authors &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novel mechanism for long-term learning identified</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Practice makes perfect — or at least that’s what we’re told as we struggle through endless rounds of multiplication tables, goal kicks and piano scales — and it seems, based on the personal experience of many, to be true. That’s why neuroscientists have been perplexed by data showing that at the level of individual synapses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers find key to avian flu transmission in humans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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MIT researchers have uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian flu strains and aid in the development of vaccines against a deadly flu pandemic.
The researchers found that a virus&#8217;s ability to infect humans depends on whether it can bind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embryonic stem cell division animation</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/characteristics-of-stem-cells-part-1-of-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This awesome animation  shows the characteristics, growth and function of stem cells; starting from embryonic stage. (Revised)
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		<title>4 health behaviors can add 14 extra years of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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People who adopt four healthy behaviours – not smoking; taking exercise; moderate alcohol intake; and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day – live on average an additional fourteen years of life compared with people who adopt none of these behaviours, according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.

Rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake up and smell the coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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A forthcoming article in the British Journal of Nutrition, published online on December 6, 2007, reported the finding of Finnish researchers that an increased intake of coffee is associated with lower mortality over a 14.5 year period.

Dr Pertti Happonen and associates evaluated data from 311 men and 506 women born during or before 1920 who were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human embryonic stem cell lines created that avoid immune rejection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Scientists from International Stem Cell (ISC) Corp. derived four unique embryonic stem cell lines that open the door for the creation of therapeutic cells that will not provoke an immune reaction in large segments of the population. The stem cell lines are “HLA-homozygous,” meaning that they have a simple genetic profile in the critical areas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human genetic variation &#8212; Science&#8217;s &#8216;Breakthrough of the Year&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/human-genetic-variation-sciences-breakthrough-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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In 2007, researchers were dazzled by the degree to which genomes differ from one human to another and began to understand the role of these variations in disease and personal traits. Science and its publisher, AAAS, the nonprofit science society, recognize “Human Genetic Variation” as the Breakthrough of the Year, and identify nine other of the year’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers reveal missing link in a heart disease pathway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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University of Michigan scientists and their colleagues have helped characterize a previously unknown link in the chain of biochemical reactions implicated in some forms of heart disease.
The finding provides a new target for future drug therapies.

A team led by U-M structural biologist John Tesmer obtained a high resolution image of three proteins caught in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC Irvine scientists find new way to sort stem cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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UC Irvine scientists have found a new way to sort stem cells that should be quicker, easier and more cost-effective than current methods. The technique could in the future expedite therapies for people with conditions ranging from brain and spinal cord damage to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

The method uses electrodes on a tiny, inch-long glass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea cucumber protein used to inhibit development of malaria parasite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (21 December) in PLoS Pathogens. Researchers say this development is a step towards developing future methods of preventing the transmission of malaria.

Malaria is caused by parasites whose lives begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light powered platinum more targeted and 80 times more powerful than similar cancer treatments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Researchers from the Universities of Warwick, Edinburgh, Dundee and the Czech Republic’s Institute of Biophysics have discovered a new light-activated platinum-based compound that is up to 80 times more powerful than other platinum-based anti-cancer drugs and which can use “light activation” to kill cancer cells in much more targeted way than similar treatments.

The platinum-based compound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive &#8216;fog&#8217; of normal aging linked to brain system disruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Comparisons of the brains of young and old people have revealed that normal aging may cause cognitive decline due to deterioration of the connections among large-scale brain systems. The researchers linked the deterioration to a decrease in the integrity of the brain’s “white matter,” the tissue containing nerve cells that carry information. The researchers found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The closest look ever at native human tissue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Seeing proteins in their natural environment and interactions inside cells has been a long-standing goal. Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have visualised proteins responsible for cell-cell contacts for the first time. In this week’s issue of Nature they publish the first 3D image of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers aim to harness sperm power for nano-robots</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/researchers-aim-to-harness-sperm-power-for-nano-robots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Cornell are working to use the same energy that drives sperm to power nanoscale robots or to deliver chemo drugs or antibiotics, for example, to targeted sites within the body. The findings were presented at the American Society for Cell Biology&#8217;s 47th annual meeting, Dec. 3, in Washington, D.C.

By breaking down the individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists uncover how the brain controls what the eyes see</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/scientists-uncover-how-the-brain-controls-what-the-eyes-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vase or face&#8221; When presented with the well known optical illusion in which we see either a vase or the faces of two people, what we observe depends on the patterns of neural activity going on in our brains.
“In this example, whether you see faces or vases depends entirely on changes that occur in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regular exercise reduces risk of blood clots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new study published in Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, regular participation in sports reduces the risk of developing blood clots by 39 percent in women and 22 percent in men.

Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands evaluated 7,860 people aged 18-70. Patients who had suffered their first blood clot in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a major breakthrough scientists reprogram human adult cells into embryonic stem cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Acclaimed stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, has reported that he and his Kyoto University colleagues have successfully reprogrammed human adult cells to function like pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells. Because it circumvents much of the controversy and restrictions regarding generation of ES cells from human embryos, this breakthrough, reported in the journal Cell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Molecular Motor Permits Speedy Assembly of Viruses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of physicists at the University of California, San Diego and biologists at Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. has shown that a tiny viral motor generates twice as much power, relative to its size, as an automobile engine. The finding explains why even very large viruses can self-assemble so rapidly.
In the study, published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Micro&#8217; livers could aid drug screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers have devised a novel way to create tiny colonies of living human liver cells that model the full-sized organ. The work could allow better screening of new drugs that are potentially harmful to the liver and reduce the costs associated with their development.

Liver toxicity is one of the main reasons pharmaceutical companies pull [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diet of Walnuts, blueberries found to improve cognition; may help maintain brain function and treat brain disorders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Junk food junkies take notice. What you eat does more than influence your gut. It also may affect your brain. Increasing evidence shows that mom was right: You should eat your vegetables, and your blueberries and walnuts, too.
Scientists are confirming that this age-old adage is worth following. And new studies show that diet may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists have developed a way to operate machines only by thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neuroscientists have significantly advanced brain-machine interface (BMI) technology to the point where severely handicapped people who cannot contract even one leg or arm muscle now can independently compose and send e-mails and operate a TV in their homes. They are using only their thoughts to execute these actions.
Thanks to the rapid pace of research on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful story inside the body</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commissioned by Wall to Wall Television for Channel 4, the Discovery Channel and ITEL, Body Story is a series of programmes that takes the audience on six thrilling journeys inside the human body.

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		<title>Enzymes Key To Brainpower Identified</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bolstering disintegrating neural connections may help boost brainpower in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease patients, MIT researchers and colleagues will report in the Nov. 8 issue of Neuron.
The researchers zeroed in on the enzymes that manipulate a key scaffolding protein for synapses, the connections through which brain cells communicate. Synapses are weakened and lost in neurodegenerative diseases such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research shows the brain&#8217;s processing speed is significantly faster than real time</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/research-shows-the-brains-processing-speed-is-significantly-faster-than-real-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at The University of Arizona have added another piece of the puzzle of how the brain processes memory.
Bruce McNaughton, a professor of psychology and physiology, and his colleague David Euston have shown that, during sleep, the reactivated memories of real-time experiences are processed within the brain at a higher rate of speed. That rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infertility Treatment For Women Suggested By Mouse Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A discovery in mice of immune cells that promote the formation of new blood vessels could lead to new treatments for endometriosis, a painful condition associated with infertility that affects up to 15 percent of women of reproductive age. The new research in vascular biology may point the way to treating endometriosis nonsurgically &#8212; by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating your greens could prove life-saving if a heart attack strikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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A diet rich in leafy vegetables may minimize the tissue damage caused by heart attacks, according to researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings, published in the November 12 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that the chemical nitrite, found in many vegetables, could be the secret [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers take first steps towards spinal cord reconstruction following injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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A new study has identified what may be a pivotal first step towards the regeneration of nerve cells following spinal cord injury, using the body’s own stem cells.
This seminal study, published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, identifies key elements in the body’s reaction to spinal injury, critical information that could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citrus juice, vitamin C give staying power to green tea antioxidants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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To get more out of your next cup of tea, just add juice.
A study found that citrus juices enable more of green tea&#8217;s unique antioxidants to remain after simulated digestion, making the pairing even healthier than previously thought.
The study compared the effect of various beverage additives on catechins, naturally occurring antioxidants found in tea. Results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient retroviruses spurred evolution of gene regulatory networks in humans and other primates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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When ancient retroviruses slipped bits of their DNA into the primate genome millions of years ago, they successfully preserved their own genetic legacy. Today an estimated 8 percent of the human genetic code consists of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs)&#8211;the DNA remnants from these so-called &#8220;selfish parasites.&#8221;
Surprisingly, the infected hosts and their primate descendants also appear [...]]]></description>
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