Unexploded Munitions In Oceans Linked To
Cancer-Causing Toxins

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During a research trip to Puerto Rico, ecologist James Porter took samples from underwater nuclear bomb target USS Killen, expecting to find evidence of radioactive matter - instead he found a link to cancer. Data revealed that the closer corals and[...]

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NTU Seals Global Partnerships On Environmental
Sciences R&D

post from ZAMP Bionews on 21 February 2009 07:00:48 AM. © ZAMP Bionews

Bacteria is often thought of as harmful yet few know that bacteria can be used for water treatment. To further research the role of bacteria in water treatment, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is partnering with three leading institutions across[...]

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New Partnership Announced Between Oxford Journals
And The International Society For Computational Biology

post from ZAMP Bionews on 21 February 2009 06:58:40 AM. © ZAMP Bionews

Oxford Journals and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) are delighted to announce a new publishing partnership. From this year, the journal Bioinformatics will once again become an official journal of the ISCB.Bioinformatics and[...]

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When Should Prostate-Specific-Antigen (PSA)
Testing Be Stopped

post from ZAMP Bionews on 21 February 2009 06:57:10 AM. © ZAMP Bionews

Although widespread Prostate-Specific-Antigen (PSA) testing has undoubtedly decreased prostate cancer mortality, is there a point of diminishing returns? In a study published in the April 2009 issue of The Journal of Urology, researchers found that in a[...]

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Coffee power!

post from Supernova Condensate on 21 February 2009 06:44:19 AM. © Supernova Condensate

Now it's no secret that I drink a lot of coffee. I mean a lot of coffee. I don't even want to think how many kilos of used coffee grounds I've thrown into the bin or flushed down the drain over the years. Well it looks like all of those grounds could have been more useful than I realised!

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Are You Vaporous Plus Bone Healing Plus Crohn's
Disease

post from SCIENCE AIN'T SO BAD: commentaries on science on 21 February 2009 06:41:00 AM. © SCIENCE AIN'T SO BAD: commentaries on science

Left you breathless and hanging, didn't I? You've been wondering how things made almost entirely of nothing get to rub against each other, bump into each other, slap against themselves, and reflect light and sound. Maybe, if you're a bloodhound, you even wondered how you could smell things with so little substance.

Fields.

Electrons, of course, surround every atom. And, I'm sure you remember that electrons have a negative charge and, therefore, repel other electrons. The electrons on the outer atoms of the baseball come first into "contact" with the electrons in the outer atoms of the wood in the bat. And, though they're very sparse and occupy very little of the vast void that constitutes the bat, the strength of the surrounding electromagnetic field is unbelievable - at least at small distances. So you have the illusion of something "solid" coming into contact with something else "solid".

No such thing, of course. There's no contact at all. Nothing touches. Just the fields of two small things repelling each other in a big void.

Why do things LOOK solid? Light (photons) don't really bounce off of things. If they did, they would be more likely to miss in that big void (being very little particles). They, instead, get captured by atoms, absorbed, and then ejected again. A very smooth operation. Looks like a bounce. Done with fields. Quite deceptive.

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BONE FRACTURES

Unless you've worked in orthopedics (as I have), you might not know this but broken bones don't always heal and that's a big problem for those people who are unlucky enough to wind up with a nonhealing fracture. Various tricks have been tried. The one that we were experimenting with when I was at Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts: electricity. If I didn't have to run to the hardware store, I would explain more about this since there's some interesting science in why electric current makes bones heal. Another time, OK?

But a group in South Korea http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211193807.htm figured out a way to borrow cells (called osteoblasts) from the patient's own body and inject them right into the site of the healing (or nonhealing, in this case) fracture. The results look good and the bone healed faster. I can't compare this work to electrical stimulation unless I blow off the hardware store, but I will tell you that you won't have to worry about your carbon footprint with this technique. No batteries.

And one more thing I would like to mention is some work on CROHN'S DISEASE.

A group in Spain http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219105326.htm have reversed Crohn's in almost all of the patients in a study with 80% of them in total remission. This, obviously, is sensational because a) it's a wretched, painful, debilitating disease and b) it shows that stem cell research is something that has value beyond getting Republicans elected in Bible Belt states.

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Photos from heathrow demo.

post from Climate Change Action on 21 February 2009 05:44:00 AM. © Climate Change Action

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Let's Meet for a Beer (or Three) in Helsinki!

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 21 February 2009 04:59:59 AM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

Since I am in lovely Helsinki once again, I'd love to meet anyone here who reads my blog! So I plan to be at Maltainen Monni, on Wednesday, 25 February, at 8pm, (Helsinki time!). Maltainen Monni can be found at Mäkitorpantie 11 in Helsinki [map]. Besides having a large collection of international beers and whiskies available, they have free wireless, so be sure to bring your laptop!

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A Revolutionary Non-toxic Model For Alzheimers

A study from the Buck Institute for Age Research offers a revolutionary new model for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a devastating neurodegenerative disorder which afflicts 24 million people worldwide. In an effort to unravel the normal function of a[...]

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