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US tornado toll at 134, no more missingChicago (AFP) June 1, 2011 Officials have located all the people reported missing in the wake of the deadliest single tornado to strike the United States and all 134 victims have been identified, Missouri's governor said Wednesday. The mile-wide May 22 twister reduced a third of the Missouri town of Joplin to rubble, tearing apart homes, businesses, a hospital and schools along a four-mile (six-kilometer) path of destruction. With phone services knocked out and families scattered in search of a safe place to sleep, the go ... read more |
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  5 new hot spots where medicine and technology will converge Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots pe ... more | .. |
  Jobs to unveil Apple software innovations Ailing chief executive Steve Jobs returns next week from sick leave to unveil Apple's latest generation of software, the firm announced Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Sponge-like biosensor crams enormous power into tiny space for DNA sequencing Vanderbilt University engineers have created a "spongy" silicon biosensor that shows promise not only for medical diagnostics, but also for the detection of dangerous toxins and other tiny molecules ... more | .. |
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Jobs to unveil Apple software innovations Ailing chief executive Steve Jobs returns next week from sick leave to unveil Apple's latest generation of software, the firm announced Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Zapping deadly bacteria using space technology Technology developed with ESA funding and drawing on long-running research aboard the International Space Station is opening up a new way to keep hospital patients safe from infections. Using ... more | .. |
  Older AIDS survivors face new challenges AIDS nearly killed Lou Grosso three decades ago, but that didn't prepare him for the latest news from his doctor: he has heart disease. ... more | .. |
  Kadhafi hiding in hospitals to avoid air strikes: source Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is hiding in hospitals as he becomes increasingly "paranoid" about NATO air strikes, a diplomatic source said, quoting British intelligence reports. ... more |
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BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
GovSat selects Thales Alenia Space to build secure satellite for military communications
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 Stevens Senior Design Team Fights Hypothermia on the Battlefield A Biomedical Engineering Senior Design team at Stevens Institute of Technology is working with the U.S. Army and New Jersey physicians to develop a new device to combat hypothermia among wounded sol ... more | .. |
 Particle trap paves way for personalized medicine Sequencing DNA base pairs � the individual molecules that make up DNA � is key for medical researchers working toward personalized medicine. Being able to isolate, study and sequence these DNA molec ... more | .. |
  Afghan hospital explosion kills three: defence ministry An explosion inside the main military hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least three people and wounded a number of others, the Afghan defence ministry told AFP. ... more | .. |
  Malaysia probes rural town after deadly landslide Malaysian authorities on Monday investigated the rural town where a landslide slammed into an orphanage, leaving 16 dead, for fear another disaster could hit the slip-prone region. ... more |
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 Three dead, 150 wounded in NATO raids: Libya At least three people died and 150 were wounded as NATO warplanes hit the Libyan capital Tripoli early Tuesday, government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told reporters. ... more | .. |
 At least 10 dead in Malaysia orphanage landslide A landslide caused by heavy rains hit an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, killing at least eight children and two caretakers, the official Bernama news agency said. ... more | .. |
  Winding back the clock with kidney stem cells Stem cell research courts both controversy and support in the community- depending on your viewpoint. Now, for the first time, scientists at Monash University's Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories ... more | .. |
 Zebrafish regrow fins using multiple cell types, not identical stem cells What does it take to regenerate a limb? Biologists have long thought that organ regeneration in animals like zebrafish and salamanders involved stem cells that can generate any tissue in the body. B ... more |
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One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibility
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas - satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones | .. |
 Sections of retinas regenerated and visual function increased with stem cells from skin Scientists from Schepens Eye Research Institute are the first to regenerate large areas of damaged retinas and improve visual function using IPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) derived from s ... more | .. |
 Doctors defy radiation woes in Japan's Fukushima When other doctors fled, 72-year old Kyohei Takahashi stayed, and hundreds of patients in the tsunami-hit Japanese town of Minamisoma near a crippled nuclear plant will never forget. ... more | .. |
  Baghdad road bomb kills Iraqi, wounds 2 Norwegians One Iraqi security guard was killed and two Norwegians were among four people wounded Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their convoy in Baghdad, security and medical officials said.. ... more | .. |
 Two Norwegians among five wounded in Baghdad bomb Two Norwegians were among five people wounded Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their convoy in Baghdad, Iraqi security and medical officials said. ... more |
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 The power of placebos They may be uncomfortable talking about it, but it's definitely going on. A recent survey, led by McGill Psychiatry Professor and Senior Lady Davis Institute Researcher Amir Raz, reports that one in ... more | .. |
 Human lung stem cell discovered For the first time, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a human lung stem cell that is self-renewing and capable of forming and integrating multiple biological structur ... more | .. |
 Sugar boosters could lead to cheap, effective treatments for chronic bacterial infections James Collins, a pioneering researcher in the new field of systems biology and a MacArthur Genius, says: "You know the old saying: 'a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down?' This is more like ... more | .. |
  Japan nuclear plant worker dies A worker died at Japan's disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant Saturday as emergency crews continued their operations to prevent a major meltdown, the plant's operator said. ... more |
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MicroCarb satellite launches to map global carbon dioxide emissions from space
Chemistry breakthroughs open new frontiers in industrial carbon capture
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  Darkness Stifles Reproduction of Surface-Dwelling Fish Fish accustomed to living near the light of the water's surface become proverbial "fish out of water" when they move to dark environments like those found in caves, according to a study from North C ... more | .. |
  Asia's suffering bears exploited for bile A frenzied black bear growls and shakes the bars of a cage barely bigger than itself. Like thousands of others across Asia, it is waiting for its owner to extract bile, a treasured substance in traditional Chinese medicine. ... more | .. |
Bombs kill two north of Baghdad: officials Two bombs exploded as a police patrol passed through the centre of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, killing two policemen, police and medical officials said. ... more | .. |
Four injured in iPad fight at Beijing Apple store Four people were taken to hospital and a glass door smashed as a near-riot broke out at Beijing's top Apple store among crowds rushing to snap up the popular iPad 2 tablet computer, state press said Sunday. ... more |
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 Rare-disorder baby has 7-organ transplant A 19-month-old San Antonio girl with an often-fatal disorder keeping her from eating is ready to go home after having a seven-organ transplant, a doctor said. ... more | .. |
Iraq suicide car bomb kills 21: hospital chief A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a police station in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 21 policemen on Thursday, the chief of the city's hospital said. ... more | .. |
  Rice University parlays sun's saving grace into autoclave Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries. Th ... more | .. |
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