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Tornadoes kill five in US state of OklahomaWashington (AFP) May 10, 2010 Multiple tornadoes killed at least five people Monday in the central US state of Oklahoma, the Oklahoman daily said on its website. The Oklahoma Emergency Management Department said there were injuries from the severe storms and tornadoes they spawned statewide, but offered no numbers. However, a hospital spokeswoman told the daily that five people were being treated at the city's Moore Medical Center. As of late Monday, the daily said damage assessment from tornadoes and hailstorms was stil ... read more |
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East Lansing MI (SPX) Apr 21, 2010Using productive farmland to grow crops for food instead of fuel is more energy efficient, Michigan State University scientists concluded, after analyzing 17 years' worth of data to help settle the food versus fuel debate. "It's 36 percent more efficient to grow grain for food than for fuel," said Ilya Gelfand, an MSU postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the study. "The ideal is to g ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 20, 2010New research findings suggest that an experimental ultrasensitive medical imaging technique that uses a pulsed laser and tiny metallic "nanocages" might enable both the early detection and treatment of disease. The system works by shining near-infrared laser pulses through the skin to detect hollow nanocages and solid nanoparticles - made of an alloy of gold and silver - that are injected ... more  
Ragama, Sri Lanka (AFP) April 18, 2010Sri Lanka's leaders have hailed the end of the island's long civil war as the start of a new era, but for soldiers injured in battle, the future is far from rosy. In a hospital outside the capital Colombo, Manju Lakshman, 32, lies on a bed staring at the ceiling. He was shot in the spine by Tamil Tiger rebels one year ago in the last weeks of fighting in the northeast of Sri Lanka as the ... more |
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New Meds FasterNewark DE (SPX) Apr 13, 2010 Biomolecules are medicine's jacks-of-all-trades: They are suitable for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer diseases; they are used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis and asthma; they help stimulate the build-up of the body's own immune defenses with flu and polio inoculations. In the laboratories of the pharmaceutical industry, new biomolecules are constantly being engineered: Specific antibodies, customized proteins and nucleic acids - the core components of genetic material - are considere ... read more |
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