Green Tea Extract Appears to Keep Cancer in Check in Majority of CLL Patients
ScienceDaily June 4, 2010
An extract of green tea appears to have clinical activity with low toxicity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients
Lethal Brain Tumor's Strength May Be a Weakness as Well
ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2010
An international team of scientists has discovered a new signaling pathway between GBM cells that, if ultimately blocked or disrupted, could significantly slow or reduce tumor growth and malignancy.
Shape Matters: The Corkscrew Twist of H. Pylori Enables It to 'Set Up Shop' in the Stomach
ScienceDaily Aug. 16, 2010
The bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which lives in the human stomach and is associated with ulcers and gastric cancer, is shaped like a corkscrew, or helix
Bacteria can 'smell' their environment, research shows
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News
Research has shown that bacteria - among the simplest life forms on Earth - have a sense of smell.
Software Predicts Criminal Behavior
A computer program is helping law enforcement determine who is most likely to commit crime.
By Eric Bland Mon Aug 16, 2010 08:13 AM ET
Autism explosion half explained, half still a mystery
13:40 16 August 2010 by Jim Giles
A series of a studies have shown that diagnostic changes alone cannot account for the increase. They suggest that other causes, perhaps environmental factors, are also contributing to the rise in cases.
Medical treatment carries possible side effect of limiting homosexuality
A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation.
Dreams Make You Smarter, More Creative, Studies Suggest
REM sleep boosts memory, creativity, and more, experts announce.
Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic News
Scientists Successfully Use Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Treat Parkinson's in Rodents
ScienceDaily (Aug. 16, 2010)
Researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research have successfully used human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to treat rodents afflicted with Parkinson's Disease
Proof of Aliens Could Come Within 25 Years, Scientist Says
By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer 16 August 2010 05:35 pm ET
Proof of extraterrestrial intelligence could come within 25 years, an astronomer who works on the search said Sunday.
Accomplice in Breast Cancer Discovered
ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2010)
Scientists have discovered an accomplice in breast cancer -- a master control switch with the power to set off a cascade of reactions orchestrated by a cancer-causing gene (or oncogene) named Wnt1
17-Aug-2010
Possible discovery of earliest animal life pushes back fossil record
In findings that push back the clock on the scientific world's thinking about when animal life appeared on Earth, Princeton scientists may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies, suggesting that primitive sponge-like creatures were living in ocean reefs about 650 million years ago
17-Aug-2010
Evolution may have pushed humans toward greater risk for type 1 diabetes, Stanford study shows
Gene variants associated with an increased risk for type-1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis may confer previously unknown benefits to their human carriers, as a result, the human race may have been evolving in the recent past to be more susceptible, rather than less, to some complex diseases
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A Warning on Asthma and Acetaminophen
By RONI CARYN RABIN Published: August 16, 2010
Young teenagers who use acetaminophen even once a month develop asthma symptoms more than twice as often as those who never take it, a large international study has found.
Mystery of Beer Goggles Solved
By Larry O'Hanlon
Tue Aug 17, 2010 07:00 AM ET
Everyone looks better after you've tipped back a pint or two, and now we may know why.
Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound
    * 17 August 2010 by Bijal Trivedi
 A new device that restores a form of sight to the blind is turning our understanding of the senses upside down
MRSA-Killing Paint Created
ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2010)
Building on an enzyme found in nature, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a nanoscale coating which safely eradicates methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Steep Drop Seen in Circumcisions in U.S.
By RONI CARYN RABIN Published: August 16, 2010
Despite a worldwide campaign for circumcision to slow the spread of AIDS, the rate of circumcision among American baby boys appears to be declining.
Vaccination Is Steady, but Pertussis Is Surging
By TARA PARKER-POPE
In recent years, pertussis has made an alarming comeback ― even among adolescents and adults who were vaccinated as children.
Novel Diabetes Hope Comes from Chinese Herbs
ScienceDaily Aug. 16, 2010
Emodin, a natural product that can be extracted from various Chinese herbs including Rheum palmatum and Polygonum cuspidatum, shows promise as an agent that could reduce the impact of type 2 diabetes
Meningitis research breakthrough could save children’s lives
18 August 2010 Queen's University, Belfast
A rapid diagnostic test for meningococcal bacteria that can produce results within an hour has been developed by scientists from Queen’s Centre for Infection and Immunity and the Trust
Postnatal Depression Can Be Prevented, Study Shows
By LiveScience Staff posted: 18 August 2010 01:03 pm ET
Nurses trained to assess and psychologically support new mothers can prevent the onset of postnatal depression
Hayabusa 2 will seek the origins of life in space
    * 18:21 18 August 2010 by Wendy Zukerman
 A new-and-improved successor to the troubled Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa could launch as soon as 2014. Hayabusa 2 would then be expected to return in 2020, bearing clues to the origin of life on Earth.
Smokers Trying to Give Up: Don't Stop Thinking About Cigarettes
ScienceDaily Aug. 18, 2010
Blocking thoughts of cigarettes helps reduce smokers' intake at first, but means they smoke more than usual when they stop suppressing, according to new research.
Massive Mega-Star Challenges Black Hole Theories
By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer posted: 18 August 2010 02:08 pm ET
Astronomers have discovered a massive star that once dwarfed our sun and is now challenging theories of how stars evolve, die and form black holes.