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Using readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Experimental & Clinical More...
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Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Refuse to File letter for accelerated approval for the company's trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1) Biologics License Application (BLA). As planned Roche More...
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Specific prevention and education strategies are needed to address breast cancer in Mexican-origin women in this country, according to a study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, which was published online in the journal More...
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When breast cancer surgeons regularly confer with plastic surgeons prior to surgery, their patients are more likely to have reconstruction, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Where More...
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The ASCO Post captured initial reactions to the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) recommendation that the breast cancer indication for bevacizumab (Avastin) be revoked in interviews with ODAC voting members, breast cancer specialists, More...
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A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that women with a gene mutation linked to breast and ovarian cancer face lower risks of developing such cancer after receiving mastectomies or having their ovaries More...
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Kennedy Krieger Institute announced new study results showing an early marker for later communication and social delays in infants at a higher-risk for autism may be infrequent gazing at other people when More...
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Be among the first to hear the latest research from the world's leading allergists presented at the 2010 annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), Nov. 11-16, in More...
Good Riddance: Human Creations the World Would Be Better Off Without (preview) PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:00

Daylight Savings Time  The extra hour of sunshine comes at a steep price Daylight savings time has marginally scientific origins: its inventor, New Zealand naturalist George Vernon Hudson, published two papers in the late 19th century arguing for a seasonal two-hour clock shift to “more fully utilize the long days of summer.” The primary appeal, though, has always been to save on energy costs, because extra daylight in the evening reduces the need for lighting. Germany instituted Sommerzeit (“summertime”) as a means to save coal during wartime, and by 1918 Europe, Russia and the U.S. had all followed suit. Clocks went back to normal in peacetime, until daylight savings was temporarily mandated again during World War II. In 1966 the U.S. Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, the first nonwartime implementation of the practice (although, technically, each state could decide whether to go along); daylight savings has since been extended as a response to energy shocks such as the oil embargo of the 1970s.

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World War II - United States - Daylight saving time - Russia - Uniform Time Act

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Remembering Martin Gardner, with Douglas Hofstadter PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:00

Martin Gardner died May 22nd at 95. He wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American magazine for 25 years and published more than 70 books. Podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured) talks with Gardner's friend Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid , about Martin Gardner.

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Martin Gardner - Douglas Hofstadter - Mathematical game - Scientific American - Pulitzer Prize

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Space Spectacles: NASA Evaluates Adjustable Astronaut Eyewear PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 05:00

Middle age is often accompanied by the onset of presbyopia , a condition whereby the eye's crystalline lens loses some of the youthful elasticity that enabled it to focus on nearby objects. The remedy for most people has been reading glasses or, for those already wearing prescription lenses, bifocals. For the handful of humans who work in the topsy-turvy environs of the space station or a spacecraft, presbyopia can be a bit more problematic because reading can take place at any number of odd angles, not to mention in microgravity, which tends to degrade vision. [More]

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NASA - Space station - Technology - Space - Spacecraft


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When Humans Almost Died Out; Earthy Exoplanets; And Scientific American 's 165th Birthday PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 05:00

Podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured) talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago and gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American , our 165th anniversary. [More]

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Steve Mirsky - Scientific American - Podcast - Human - Science in Society


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Getting the Lead out: New Look at Apollo 17 Moon Sample Reveals Graphite Delivered by a Lunar Impactor PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 09 July 2010 13:02

Humans have not set foot on the moon since December 14, 1972, when astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission departed the lunar surface to return home. Thankfully, Cernan and Schmitt, a trained geologist , collected 110 kilograms of lunar material--the largest-ever haul of moon rocks and soil--before heading for Earth. [More]

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Earth - Moon - Apollo 17 - Eugene Cernan - Harrison Schmitt


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