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November 27th, 2008 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 27 (ANI): When it comes to bone formation, serotonin produced in gut has a major role to play, finds a new study.
The study led by Columbia University researchers have ...
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November 25th, 2008 - 6:36 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 25 (ANI): While discussing the controversies surrounding international food aid, the editors of journal PLoS Medicine came to the conclusion that "donor-supported food programs are not enough as a ...
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November 24th, 2008 - 12:26 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): Scientists have found new evidence suggesting a giant tsunami that crashed in New York City 2,300 years ago, was caused by an asteroid 330 feet in diameter, ...
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November 21st, 2008 - 4:50 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 21 (ANI): A research team has announced the discovery of a new species of Ebola virus, provisionally named Bundibugyo ebolavirus.
Writing about the discovery in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, ...
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November 20th, 2008 - 11:42 am ICT by ANI
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London, November 20 (ANI): A cure for an Indian boy with werewolf syndrome, a condition which leaves the face and body of the sufferer covered in hair, has been found by ...
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November 6th, 2008 - 12:22 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Nov 6 (IANS) A rock found in Oman could soak up huge quantities of globe-warming carbon dioxide, cheaply.The studies show that the rock, known as peridotite, reacts naturally at high rates ...
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November 5th, 2008 - 5:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Wasila (Alaska), Nov.5 (ANI): Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin cast her vote at the Wasilla City Hall here on Tuesday, but if the comments of political observers are ...
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November 2nd, 2008 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 2 (ANI): When it comes to the decision to grow, the bacteria "listen in" to find out what their neighbours are doing and then follow the crowd, a new ...
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November 2nd, 2008 - 5:49 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 2 (ANI): A psychologist who found that he could predict kids prospects by testing whether they could resist eating a marshmallow will now scan their brains in a bid ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 31 (ANI): When it comes to the decision to grow, the bacteria "listen in" to find out what their neighbours are doing and then follow the crowd, a new ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 3:54 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 31 (ANI): Exposure to famine prior to birth may lead to epigenetic changes that may affect a person''s health into midlife, according to a new study.
Researchers from Columbia University ...
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October 28th, 2008 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 28 (ANI): A new study conducted on mice has found a link between the immune system and anxiety.
The research team from Rockefeller and Columbia universities have found that mast ...
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October 23rd, 2008 - 4:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 23 (ANI): A new research has uncovered how some people are good at generalizing from past experience, while others are not.
The study has revealed how the brain can connect ...
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October 21st, 2008 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 21 (ANI): A team of Austrian and American researches has discovered that ripening bananas appear bright blue under black light.
Scientists at the University of Innsbruck and Columbia University ...
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October 16th, 2008 - 5:50 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 16 (ANI): A new clinical trial has revealed that drug-eluting stents are more effective and equally as safe as bare metal stents for treating heart attack patients.
The trial, ...
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October 16th, 2008 - 1:39 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 16 (ANI): A new study from Columbia University has revealed that emotions play a crucial role while negotiating offers.
Scientists Andrew Stephen and Michel Tuan Pham looked at the interplay ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 5:37 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct.10 (ANI): The Bush administration is considering a partial nationalization of some banks, buying up a portion of their shares to shore them up and restore confidence as part of ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 12:41 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Oct.10 (ANI): Pakistan has overtaken Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide-bomb deaths this year, its intelligence agency reports. Suicide bomb attacks have spiked in Pakistan, from two in 2002 to ...
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October 6th, 2008 - 12:52 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 6 (ANI): A meteorite, which crashed into Australia 40 years ago, is telling researchers new things about how life may have started on Earth, and how that almost universal ...
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September 30th, 2008 - 7:14 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 30 (ANI): American author Sherry Jones book, The Jewel of Medina, has been termed "softcore pornography" by an American academic.
The Telegraph quoted Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of Middle ...
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September 17th, 2008 - 3:18 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Sept.17 (ANI): Republican presidential nominee John McCain does have an ugly and untruthful side to him, and according to the Washington Post, it has surfaced off and on since his ...
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September 12th, 2008 - 12:34 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 12 (ANI): A new study has rebuffed the theory that dinosaurs were superior, stating that comparison to competitors shows that early dinos survived 2 mass extinctions because they were ...
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August 16th, 2008 - 12:11 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington , Aug 16 (ANI): During Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilanis maiden US visit last month, US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is learnt to have told him that he ...
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August 7th, 2008 - 12:19 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Aug 7 (ANI): While diabetes has long been believed to be a risk factor for periodontal infections, a new study has shown that the reverse might also be true.
Researchers from ...
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August 4th, 2008 - 4:02 pm ICT by IANS
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Sydney, Aug 4 (IANS) Two scientists are one step closer to explaining the nature of glass and its transition from liquid to solid, says a study. Peter Harrowell and Asaph Widmer-Cooper, theoretical ...
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August 1st, 2008 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington , Aug 1 (ANI): A collaborative study carried out by researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Columbia University for Project ALS, has become the first to show ...
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July 25th, 2008 - 12:51 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington , July 25 (ANI): Poor HIV-infected women need not stop breastfeeding their babies early or abruptly, says a new study by researchers from Columbia University ''s Mailman School of Public ...
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July 15th, 2008 - 12:46 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 15 (ANI): A new research at Columbia Center for Children''s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University''s Mailman School of Public Health has cited that by closing coal-fired power plants ...
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June 28th, 2008 - 6:59 pm ICT by IANS
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New York, June 28 (IANS) A survey of 1,300 high school students here has revealed that 16.2 percent of them have been subjected to sexual violence, and in most cases the victims ...
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June 28th, 2008 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 28 (ANI): A new study has shown that teenagers in New York face sexual violence at a higher rate than the national average.
The three-year study led by researchers from ...
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