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Students Build Living Microbial Machines
At the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, undergraduates from all over the world unveiled the living machines they'd created with snippets of DNA, from bacteria that change color when they detect pollutants to ones that secrete non-toxic superglue.
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Babies May Pick Up Language Cues In Womb
A new study reveals that the melody of a newborn's cries seems to be influenced by the sound of the parents' native tongue. The findings suggest that crying infants may be imitating the patterns of the language they heard before they were born.
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Rare Disease Treated Using Gene Therapy
French scientists report that two boys treated with gene therapy for a rare but fatal genetic disease have shown improvements. These results mark a high point for the field of gene therapy. Shown here, the area of the brain that was treated.
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Report: U.S. Trails In Infant Mortality
A report from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the U.S. ranked 30th in the world in infant mortality rates, mainly because of a higher rate of pre-term births than most countries in Europe. Analysts say these studies don't take sufficiently into account the U.S. population mix.
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Kilimanjaro Glaciers May Vanish In A Few Decades
The glaciers atop Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro may be gone entirely in the next few decades. A new study shows that 85 percent of the ice cover that was present in 1912 has vanished, and the ice continues to melt rapidly.
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Flu Study Reassures Pregnant Women, Children
New data show the new H1N1 flu vaccine is safe and effective in pregnant women and children. Ongoing studies of the swine flu vaccine confirm that pregnant women do just fine with one dose but young children will need two. The government has set up an independent panel to monitor what happens to people who have been vaccinated. The working group will report back regularly.
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Revising A Century-Old Tale Of Man-Eating Lions
Nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers in Kenya more than 100 years ago. But modern research shows the death toll was far less than the accounts of the day. Even so, the two lions — stuffed and on display at Chicago's Field Museum — ate at least 35 human beings.
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Scientists Decode DNA Of Domestic Pig
An international team of scientists has completed a draft sequence of the pig genome. Pigs share many important properties with humans, so understanding the pig genome could reveal more about behavior and disease resistance in humans.
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Could Pregnancy Hormone Help Heal Brain Injuries?
Dr. Donald Stein of Emory University noticed that women healed from traumatic brain injuries quicker than men. He's been able to isolate the likely reason — the pregnancy hormone progesterone. Stein talks to NPR's Guy Raz about his research and the future of treating brain injuries — from concussions to strokes.
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Myth: HIV/AIDS Rate Among Black Women Traced To 'Down Low' Black Men
The rate of HIV and AIDS in the Black Community is startling. African-Americans, who only make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, account for nearly half of those living with HIV. More specifically, black women represent 61 percent of the new HIV cases among all women. The popular suspicion has been that many infected black women have contracted the virus from their black male companions, who secretly have sex with other men (also known as the "down low"). But a new study shows that correlation is flawed. Dr. Kevin Fenton, of the Centers for Disease Control, explains the misconception and talks about prevention.
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Bioengineered Plants Gone Wild
A study shows the effect of what happens when genes from bioengineered plants get lose. A gene that protects a squash from a viral disease also protects a wild gourd from this disease but it makes it more susceptible to other threats.
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Neuroscientists And Magicians Mingle At Conference
Thousands of neuroscientists gathered in Chicago this week at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Science News writer Laura Sanders reports on the highlights, including a symposium where magicians and neuroscientists discussed their common ground: the mind.
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Scientists Solve Mystery Of Ear-Splitting Sounds
Reporting in Nature, researchers write that a rare type of neuron in the inner ear may process painfully loud sounds, such as the blast of a jackhammer. Study author Paul Fuchs discusses how his team solved a mystery that had stumped auditory scientists for nearly 50 years.
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Did Algae Contribute To Mass Extinctions?
Forget asteroids — a new theory says algae were the key to the dinosaurs' extinction millions of years ago. Ecotoxicologist John Rodgers details the evidence for the theory and explains why some algae can be harmful in large quantities, even to present day animal populations.
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Scientists: Biofuel Laws May Harm Environment
Researchers writing in the current issue of Science believe they have found an error in existing biofuel laws that could actually make climate change worse. They say these rules inadvertently encourage deforestation, which in turn contributes to global warming.
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