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DNA Sequencing Getting Faster, CheaperResearchers Hope It Will Lead to Highly Customized Disease Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
CBS News Tuesday, August 11, 2009UT Southwestern physicians bust myths about insulinPeople diagnosed with type 2 diabetes often resist taking insulin because they fear gaining weight, developing low blood sugar and seeing their quality of life decline.
Eurekalert.org Tuesday, August 11, 2009Diet, population size and the spread of modern humans into EuropeStable isotope data published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Michael Richards of the University of British Columbia and the Max Planck Institute, suggests that at least some of the European early modern humans consistently consumed fish, supplementing their diet of terrestrial animals.
Eurekalert.org Tuesday, August 11, 2009First Wi-Fi pacemaker in U.S. gives patient freedomNEW YORK (Reuters) - After relying on a pacemaker for 20 years, Carol Kasyjanski has become the first American recipient of a wireless pacemaker that allows her doctor to monitor her health from afar -- over the Internet.
Reuters Tuesday, August 11, 2009A Conversation With Paul Root Wolpe: Scientist Tackles Ethical Questions of Space TravelPaul Root Wolpe is a medical sociologist and bioethicist who directs the Center for Ethics at Emory University and is the first chief of bioethics for NASA.
New York Times Tuesday, August 11, 2009Online Treatment May Help InsomniacsTwo studies suggest that online applications based on cognitive behavioral therapy can be effective in treating insomnia.
International Herald Tribune Tuesday, August 11, 200918 and Under: Stealing in Childhood Does Not a Criminal MakeWhen is stealing a normal childhood behavior, and when is it something to worry about?
International Herald Tribune Tuesday, August 11, 2009Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the WorldTaxonomy is dying. But it is by classifying nature that we come to know it in all its beetleness and daffodility.
New York Times Tuesday, August 11, 2009Carbon Dating, Cold Fusion, and a Curve Ball (Paperback) newly tagged ''science''Carbon Dating, Cold Fusion, and a Curve Ball (Paperback)By David D. Moon Buy new: $19.9513 used and new from $8.08 First tagged "science" by J. Frahm Customer tags: science(2), intelligent design, paleontology, creation and evolution, geology, archaeology, carbon 14, radiocarbon, carbon dating
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