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Lungs infected with plague bacteria also become playgrounds for other microbesChapel Hill NC (SPX) Feb 02, 2012 Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until it's too late for medical treatment. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has opened a door to the answer. Researchers led by William E. Goldman, PhD, professor and chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ... read more |
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  Snow blankets Italy on coldest week in 27 years Snow blanketed Italy on Wednesday on what is forecast to be the coldest week in 27 years, forcing the closure of tracts of motorway and snarling traffic in the cities of Bologna and Milan. ... more | .. |
 Deadly European cold snap spreads A cold snap that killed 30 people in Ukraine over the past five days spread Tuesday to swathes of eastern and central Europe with record lows in Bulgaria and heavy snow in Switzerland and parts of Italy. ... more | .. |
  Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life The earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly in ... more | .. |
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  Scientists create new atomic X-ray laser Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ultimately opening the door to new medicine ... more | .. |
  Suicide car bomb outside Baghdad hospital kills 31 A suicide bomber set off an explosives-packed car outside a Baghdad hospital on Friday, killing 31 people in the capital's deadliest day in a month, amid a political crisis that has stoked tensions. ... more | .. |
 Doctors Without Borders slams lack of AIDS care in DR Congo Eighty-five percent of HIV-positive people in Democratic Republic of Congo have no access to AIDS treatment, while international funding has been cut, according to Doctors Without Borders. ... more | .. |
  T-rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves or T-rays - the technology behind full-body security scanners. The researchers behind the study, published recentl ... more |
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London, Paris tighten nuclear bond over US, Russia concerns
Iran says cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog will take 'new form'
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  At least 100 hurt in Iran earthquake: reports A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck the area of the city of Neyshabour in northeast Iran on Thursday, injuring at least 100 people and damaging several houses, state media reported. ... more | .. |
 Counterfeit and substandard antimalaria drugs threaten crisis in Africa Hopes of at last controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts writing in 'Malaria Journal'. Unless urgent action ... more | .. |
  Open-source robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research la ... more | .. |
  Canada urged to conceal fetal sex over abortion fears An editorial in a major Canadian medical journal Monday urges doctors to conceal the gender of a fetus from all pregnant women until 30 weeks to prevent sex-selective abortion by Asian immigrants. ... more |
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 WHO lauds India's year without polio With a 'zero-polio' record in the last one year, India Friday carried its fight against the crippling disease to hospitals and health care centres across the country where parents brought their children for vaccination as the World Health Organisation lauded the country's achievement. ... more | .. |
  Graphene quantum dots: The next big small thing A Rice University laboratory has found a way to turn common carbon fiber into graphene quantum dots, tiny specks of matter with properties expected to prove useful in electronic, optical and biomedi ... more | .. |
 Balkan countries join forces to fight HIV/AIDS stigma Pressured to quit his job after telling his bosses he was HIV-positive, Boris Kovacic shares the plight of thousands in the Balkans who face prejudice because of a stubborn stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. ... more | .. |
  Colorado mountain hail may disappear in a warmer future Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado's Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from NOAA and several other institutions. ... more |
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Ancient zircon data reveals tectonic origin of Earth's first continental crust
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
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 Six die in Indian Kashmir freeze Six people have died during a cold snap in Indian Kashmir, including a pregnant woman who was unable to reach hospital after heavy snowfall blocked local roads, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Iran stokes nuclear fears with new facility Iran has stoked Western fears about its nuclear ambitions with its enrichment of fissile material in a new site deep inside a virtually indestructible mountain bunker, analysts said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  US health experts seek more study on 'fracking' A group of US medical professionals called Monday for a halt to a type of drilling for natural gas called "fracking" in populated areas until more is known about its health impacts. ... more | .. |
 Indian man recalls leopard attack caught on camera An Indian labourer who had his scalp ripped off by a rampaging leopard over the weekend has spoken of his horrific ordeal, saying he was trying to save the cat when it turned on him. ... more |
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 To Speed People Up, Human Leg Muscle Slows Down Other than Olympic race walkers, people generally find it more comfortable to run than walk when they start moving at around 2 meters per second - about 4.5 miles per hour. North Carolina Stat ... more | .. |
  Fernandez shakes up Argentine military Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has reshuffled the country's military command, a move seen by critics as indication of continuing tensions between her administration and the defense establishment. ... more | .. |
 Wild elephant kills three in Nepal A wild elephant rampaged through a village in southeastern Nepal on Thursday trampling three people to death, police said. ... more | .. |
  16 dead in China as bus slides off bridge At least 16 people were killed after an overloaded bus veered off an icy highway bridge in China's southwestern Guizhou province on Wednesday, state media reported. ... more |
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  Solar Power Goes Viral Catching a nasty virus certainly isn't on anyone's holiday wish list, but for solar power it might be just what the doctor ordered. With the help of a genetically modified virus, materials researche ... more | .. | .. | .. | |||
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