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		<title>How your brain tells you where you are</title>
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		<title>Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman&#8217;s face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind. The transplant was carried out in June in the Netherlands, but is only now being publicised. The implant was made out of titanium powder &#8211; heated and fused together by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3154&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Pot, Cocaine, and Hunger Intersect in the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June 2006 pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis began selling a new weight-loss drug called rimonabant in Europe. Rimonabant worked in part by reducing appetite, and the company claimed it could also treat addiction, harmful cholesterol, and diabetes. Lab tests even suggested the drug produced healthier sperm. But within six months, the company had received more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3152&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion &#124; Investment in medical research saves lives, boosts economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WITH the nation&#8217;s economy in poor health, the congressional &#8220;super&#8221; committee appointed to propose areas for cuts to reduce the national deficit offered the promise of a cure. But when it ended deliberations without a proposal, it provided instead a bitter pill — $1.2 trillion in mandatory across-the-board cuts, half from defense and half from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3150&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate cake breakfast could help you lose weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds too good to be true but new research says having dessert &#8211; along with the traditional fry up &#8211; burns off the pounds. Morning is the best time to consume sweets because that&#8217;s when the body&#8217;s metabolism is most active &#8211; and we have the rest of the day to work off the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3148&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psoriasis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<title>Why aren&#8217;t the oldest living people getting any older? &#8211; Slate Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, a 114-year-old former schoolteacher from Georgia named Besse Cooper became the world&#8217;s oldest living person. Her predecessor, Brazil&#8217;s Maria Gomes Valentim, was 114 when she died. So was the oldest living person before her, and the one before her. In fact, eight of the last nine &#8220;world&#8217;s oldest&#8221; titleholders were 114 when they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3143&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Antibiotic Fails Sinus Infection Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has felt the pressure of a weeklong sinus infection won’t be happy to hear it, but a study finds that a commonly prescribed medicine doesn’t clear up such attacks any better than the body does on its own. The findings, in the Feb. 15 Journal of the American Medical Association, don’t apply to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3141&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Interval Training Can Improve Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While many of us wonder just how much exercise we really need in order to gain health and fitness, a group of scientists in Canada are turning that issue on its head and asking, how little exercise do we need? The emerging and engaging answer appears to be, a lot less than most of us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3139&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freeze-tolerant Flies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organisms that live at the frigid poles of our planet have evolved strategies to withstand temperatures that would kill most species instantly. Some secrete ice-nucleating substances that control the freezing process, for example, while others accumulate anti-freeze proteins that allow their cells to remain unfrozen even at subzero temperatures, a phenomenon known as supercooling. Now, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3137&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Successful human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug-delivery chip</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient’s body. This week, the MIT researchers and scientists from MicroCHIPS Inc. reported that they have successfully used such a chip to administer daily doses of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3135&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Printing Muscle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a small clean room tucked into the back of San Diego–based startup Organovo, Chirag Khatiwala is building a thin layer of human skeletal muscle. He inserts a cartridge of specially prepared muscle cells into a 3-D printer, which then deposits them in uniform, closely spaced lines in a petri dish. This arrangement allows the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3131&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Biology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<title>Disease-Fighting Secrets of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insects cover our planet. Filed into 750,000 different species, at any given time there are one million trillion bugs buzzing around the globe. About 14,000 of those species are blood-feeders, meaning they drink their meals by puncturing the skin of vertebrates, including humans. Besides being a nuisance, blood-feeding insects, such as certain strains of mosquitoes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3127&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I Wanted To Live&#8217;: New Depression Drugs Offer Hope For Toughest Cases</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/24/i-wanted-to-live-new-depression-drugs-offer-hope-for-toughest-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A club drug called &#8220;Special K&#8221; is generating a lot of buzz among researchers who study depression. That&#8217;s because &#8220;Special K,&#8221; which is actually an FDA-approved anesthetic named ketamine, can relieve even suicidal depression in a matter of hours. And it works on many patients who haven&#8217;t responded to current antidepressants like Prozac. Those traditional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3125&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toying with biological systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bacteria don’t normally take photographs. Nor do they attack tumor cells or produce chemicals. But with some help from biological engineer Chris Voigt, they can do all that and more. Voigt, who joined MIT’s faculty in July as an associate professor of biological engineering, likes to tinker with bacteria and other microbes to get them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3122&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping Memory in the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Aging of Eyes Is Blamed in Circadian Rhythm Disturbances</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, scientists have looked for explanations as to why certain conditions occur with age, among them memory loss, slower reaction time, insomnia and even depression. They have scrupulously investigated such suspects as high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and an inactive lifestyle. Now a fascinating body of research supports a largely unrecognized culprit: the aging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3116&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian scientists regenerate ice age plant</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/23/russian-scientists-regenerate-ice-age-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was an ice age squirrel&#8217;s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3113&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Type 2 Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/23/type-2-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sirtuin protein linked to longevity in mammals</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/23/sirtuin-protein-linked-to-longevity-in-mammals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last, a member of the celebrated sirtuin family of proteins has been shown to extend lifespan in mammals — although it’s not the one that has received the most attention and financial investment. Sirtuin genes and the proteins they encode have intrigued many researchers who study ageing ever since they were first linked to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3109&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Patient of the Future</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/23/the-patient-of-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2000, when Larry Smarr left his job as head of a celebrated supercomputer center in Illinois to start a new institute at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Irvine, he rarely paid attention to his bathroom scale. He regularly drank Coke, added sugar to his coffee, and enjoyed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3107&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supergene controls butterfly mimicry</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/23/supergene-controls-butterfly-mimicry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Curry spice component may help slow prostate tumor growth</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/12/curry-spice-component-may-help-slow-prostate-tumor-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curcumin, an active component of the Indian curry spice turmeric, may help slow down tumor growth in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a study from researchers at Jefferson&#8217;s Kimmel Cancer Center suggests. Reporting in a recent issue of Cancer Research, Karen Knudsen, Ph.D., a Professor of Cancer Biology, Urology and Radiation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3095&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complex wiring of the nervous system may rely on a just a handful of genes and proteins</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/12/complex-wiring-of-the-nervous-system-may-rely-on-a-just-a-handful-of-genes-and-proteins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered a startling feature of early brain development that helps to explain how complex neuron wiring patterns are programmed using just a handful of critical genes. The findings, published February 3 in Cell, may help scientists develop new therapies for neurological disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3093&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug bests cystic-fibrosis mutation</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/10/drug-bests-cystic-fibrosis-mutation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a blinded clinical trial, neither the patient nor the clinician should know who is receiving placebo and who the active drug. But during a trial of Kalydeco (ivacaftor), a cystic-fibrosis treatment approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on 31 January, Drucy Borowitz says it was sometimes easy to tell the difference. “We had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3089&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Symptoms Reversed in Mice</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/09/alzheimers-disease-symptoms-reversed-in-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nearly 13-year-old skin cancer drug rapidly alleviates molecular signs of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and improves brain function, according to the results of a new mouse study being hailed as extremely promising. Early-stage human clinical trials could begin within months. In the study, published online in today in Science, researchers from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3087&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walnuts shrink prostate tumors in mice</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/07/walnuts-shrink-prostate-tumors-in-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC Davis researchers, with colleagues at the USDA Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., assessed tumor size in mice fed different diets for 9, 18 and 24 weeks. They found that the mice that consumed the human equivalent of 2.4 ounces of whole walnuts daily, gained weight at the same rate as mice fed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3083&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testosterone makes us less cooperative and more egocentric</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/06/testosterone-makes-us-less-cooperative-and-more-egocentric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, research from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London) has found. The findings may have implications for how group decisions are affected by dominant individuals. Problem solving in groups can provide benefits over individual decisions as we are able [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3080&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are diet soft drinks bad for you?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/06/are-diet-soft-drinks-bad-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study finds potential link between daily consumption of diet soft drinks and risk of vascular events Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3078&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring What Makes A Medicine</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/05/measuring-what-makes-a-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new method for rating the attractiveness of a compound could help chemists discern potential new drugs from duds. Researchers have come up with a way to quantify a compound’s drug potential that moves beyond simply “hot or not,” instead providing a measure that allows compounds to be ranked as well. The approach “takes things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3075&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Panic button&#8217; could help cancer defy drugs</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/05/panic-button-could-help-cancer-defy-drugs-2/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/05/panic-button-could-help-cancer-defy-drugs-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stressed yeast cells frantically reshuffle their chromosomes in a desperate last bid to find a combination that survives. This &#8220;panic&#8221; response enables them to rapidly evolve resistance to drugs. The discovery might also apply to cancer, because cancer cells often have abnormal numbers and arrangements of chromosomes. Understanding one of the mechanisms by which cancers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3073&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genentech drug to fight common skin cancer gets OK</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/05/genentech-drug-to-fight-common-skin-cancer-gets-ok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators Monday approved the first drug for people with advanced forms of basal cell carcinoma, the most common kind of skin cancer, as well as the most common cancer in general in the United States. The drug, made by South San Francisco&#8217;s Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss drug giant Roche, is designed for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3071&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists turn skin cells into neural precursors, bypassing stem-cell stage</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/05/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-neural-precursors-bypassing-stem-cell-stage/</link>
		<comments>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/05/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-neural-precursors-bypassing-stem-cell-stage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mouse skin cells can be converted directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding is an extension of a previous study by the same group showing that mouse and human skin cells can be directly converted into functional neurons. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3067&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Neurobiology of Bliss&#8211;Sacred and Profane</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/02/01/the-neurobiology-of-bliss-sacred-and-profane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In studies that observe the brain in action, the right hemisphere seems to be the sexy hemisphere. It lights up during orgasm—so much so that, in one study, much of the cortex went dark, leaving the right prefrontal cortex as a bright island. New research suggests the right hemisphere is also hyperactive amongst the “hypersexual,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3060&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>T lymphocytes and cancer cell</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/31/t-lymphocytes-and-cancer-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T lymphocytes and cancer cell. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of T lymphocyte cells (red) attached to a cancer cell. T lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell that recognise a specific site (antigen) on the surface of cancer cells or pathogens and bind to it. Some T lymphocytes then signal for other immune [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3047&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testify: The Open-Science Movement Catches Fire</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/31/testify-the-open-science-movement-catches-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, the open science movement has sought to light a fire about the “closed” journal-publication system. In the last few weeks their efforts seemed to have ignited a broader flame, driven mainly, it seems, by the revelation that one of the most resented publishers, Elsevier, was backing the Research Works Act — some tomfoolery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3032&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making memories last</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/31/making-memories-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called &#8220;synapses&#8221;. But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? Neuroscientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have discovered a major clue from a study in fruit flies: Hardy, self-copying clusters or oligomers of a synapse protein are an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3030&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Panic button&#8217; could help cancer defy drugs</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/30/panic-button-could-help-cancer-defy-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stressed yeast cells frantically reshuffle their chromosomes in a desperate last bid to find a combination that survives. This &#8220;panic&#8221; response enables them to rapidly evolve resistance to drugs. The discovery might also apply to cancer, because cancer cells often have abnormal numbers and arrangements of chromosomes. Understanding one of the mechanisms by which cancers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3028&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From whales to earthworms, the mechanism that gives shape to life</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/16/from-whales-to-earthworms-the-mechanism-that-gives-shape-to-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mice don’t have tails on their backs, and their ribs don’t grow from lumbar vertebrae. And for a good reason. EPFL scientists have discovered the mechanism that determines the shape that many animals take – including humans, blue whales, and insects. Why don’t our arms grow from the middle of our bodies? The question isn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3012&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers Use Sugar to Halt Esophageal Cancer in Its Tracks</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/16/researchers-use-sugar-to-halt-esophageal-cancer-in-its-tracks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists working at the Medical Research Council have identified changes in the patterns of sugar molecules that line pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus, a condition called Barrett’s dysplasia, making it much easier to detect and remove these cells before they develop into esophageal cancer. These findings, reported in the journal Nature Medicine, have important implications [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3010&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why aging arteries lose stretch</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/14/why-aging-arteries-lose-stretch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers Find Unique Protein Organization In Arteries Associated with Cardiovascular Disease. Knowledge could assist in tissue replacements, treatments for high blood pressure and diabetes. ..Human arteries – some smaller than a strand of hair – stiffen as a person ages. This stiffening is a factor in cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3004&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Create World&#8217;s Tiniest Ear</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2012/01/14/scientists-create-worlds-tiniest-ear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what a virus sounds like? Or what noise a bacterium makes when it moves between hosts? If the answer is yes, you may soon get your chance to find out, thanks to the development of the world&#8217;s tiniest ear. The &#8220;nano-ear,&#8221; a microscopic particle of gold trapped by a laser beam, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=3001&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fish oil compound stops leukemia in mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The compound—delta-12-protaglandin J3, or D12-PGJ3—targeted and killed the stem cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, in mice, says Sandeep Prabhu, associate professor of immunology and molecular toxicology at Penn State. The compound is produced from EPA—Eicosapentaenoic Acid—an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish and in fish oil. “Research in the past on fatty acids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2997&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A drug that activates only your father&#8217;s version of a gene may treat neural disorder</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/12/24/a-drug-that-activates-only-your-fathers-version-of-a-gene-may-treat-neural-disorder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who&#8217;s passed basic biology knows that we get one copy of a gene from our mother, a second from our father. But few people realize that not all of these genes end up being treated equally. Imprinted genes are expressed from only the maternal or paternal allele, rather than both. And, when this process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2990&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elephant&#8217;s sixth &#8216;toe&#8217; discovered</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/12/23/elephants-sixth-toe-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious bony growth found in elephants&#8217; feet is actually a sixth &#8220;toe&#8221;, scientists report. For more than 300 years, the structure has puzzled researchers, but this study suggests that it helps to support elephants&#8217; colossal weight. Fossils reveal that this &#8220;pre-digit&#8221; evolved about 40 million years ago, at a point when early elephants became [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2986&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The computer assisted design (CAD) tools for designing new RNA molecules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed CAD-type models and simulations for RNA molecules that make it possible to engineer biological components [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2979&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/11/23/obese-monkeys-given-miracle-weight-loss-pill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at least for overweight monkeys that simply can’t drop those extra pounds no matter what they try. After receiving the drug for just four weeks, the monkeys lost between 7 and 15 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2973&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/11/23/simulating-how-proteins-self-assemble-or-fold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold &#8211; YouTube.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2971&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents diabetes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/11/13/gene-tweak-creates-supermouse-%e2%80%93-and-prevents-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faster, longer, further… fatter? Knocking out a particular gene in muscle lets mice run twice as far as normal. Knocking out the same gene in fat cells allows the animals to put on weight without developing type-2 diabetes.The discoveries could lead to new treatments for diabetes or for invigorating muscles in elderly people and in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2969&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists trains computer to evaluate breast cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/11/10/scientists-trains-computer-to-evaluate-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1928, the way breast cancer characteristics are evaluated and categorized has remained largely unchanged. It is done by hand, under a microscope. Pathologists examine the tumors visually and score them according to a scale first developed eight decades ago. These scores help doctors assess the type and severity of the cancer and, accordingly, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2967&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Wine Ingredient Resveratrol Mimics Calorie Restriction in Obese Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The red wine ingredient resveratrol mimicked the metabolic effects of dieting and exercising in obese men, a small study found. Although it didn&#8217;t lead to weight loss, a daily 150-milligram dose of resveratrol lowered blood pressure as well as blood glucose levels and liver fat in obese men after 30 days, Dutch researchers reported today [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2965&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genome sequencing unlocks the mysteries of naked mole rat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BGI, the world&#8217;s largest genomic organization, announced that an international team of researchers from Korea, China and USA, for the first time, demonstrated the physiology and longevity of the naked mole rats (NMR) in terms of genomics and transcriptomics. The results, published online today in the international journal Nature, provide an excellent opportunity to better [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2961&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biologists use Sinatra-named fly to show how to see the blues &#8212; and the greens</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/10/09/biologists-use-sinatra-named-fly-to-show-how-to-see-the-blues-and-the-greens/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York University biologists have identified a new mechanism for regulating color vision by studying a mutant fly named after Frank (&#8216;Ol Blue Eyes) Sinatra. Their findings, which appear in the journal Nature, focus on how the visual system functions in order to preserve the fidelity of color discrimination throughout the life of an organism. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2957&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the brain makes memories: rhythmically!</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/10/08/how-the-brain-makes-memories-rhythmically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brain learns through changes in the strength of its synapses — the connections between neurons — in response to stimuli. Now, in a discovery that challenges conventional wisdom on the brain mechanisms of learning, UCLA neuro-physicists have found there is an optimal brain &#8220;rhythm,&#8221; or frequency, for changing synaptic strength. And further, like stations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2953&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Disease Has Its Own Clock</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/10/08/heart-disease-has-its-own-clock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broken biological clocks in blood vessels may contribute to hardened arteries, even if the main timer in the brain works fine. The finding, from transplant experiments with mice, suggests that throwing off the daily rhythms of the body’s organs can have serious health consequences. A wealth of evidence shows that skimping on sleep and working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2951&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breast Cancer Death Rates Decline</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/10/04/breast-cancer-death-rates-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fewer women are dying from breast cancer, largely because of advances in screening and treatment. Poorer women, however, are seeing a slower and later decline in their risk of dying from breast cancer, in part because they don’t have as much access to these life-saving advances. In 2008, 51.4% of poor women aged 40 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2949&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists discover fickle DNA changes in brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/10/02/scientists-discover-fickle-dna-changes-in-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins scientists investigating chemical modifications across the genomes of adult mice have discovered that DNA modifications in non-dividing brain cells, thought to be inherently stable, instead underwent large-scale dynamic changes as a result of stimulated brain activity. Their report, in the October issue of Nature Neuroscience, has major implications for treating psychiatric diseases, neurodegenerative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2946&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laughter Produces Endorphins, Study Finds</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/15/laughter-produces-endorphins-study-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good.RSS Feed Get Science News From The New York Times »The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, is not the intellectual pleasure of cerebral [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2944&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene find could lead to drug for chronic back pain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/11/gene-find-could-lead-to-drug-for-chronic-back-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gene responsible for chronic pain has been identified, with scientists saying this could lead to drugs for treating long-lasting back pain.Writing in the journal Science, University of Cambridge researchers removed the HCN2 gene from pain-sensitive nerves in mice.Deleting the gene stopped any chronic pain but did not affect acute pain. via BBC News &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2942&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Map Shows Where Tastes are Coded in the Brain: How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the scientists call a “gustotopic map.” This is the first map that shows how taste is represented in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2940&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists have new help finding brain’s nooks and crannies</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/07/scientists-have-new-help-finding-brain%e2%80%99s-nooks-and-crannies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like explorers mapping a new planet, scientists probing the brain need every type of landmark they can get. Each mountain, river or forest helps scientists find their way through the intricacies of the human brain. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new technique that provides rapid access to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2938&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Optics used to track single cell’s growth</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/07/optics-used-to-track-single-cell%e2%80%99s-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineers from the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences using small changes in the optical properties of  single living cells to measure their growth. “Determining the growth patterns of single cells,” the researchers write, “offers answers to some of the most elusive questions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2936&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Lifestyle Reduces Diabetes Risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/06/improving-lifestyle-reduces-diabetes-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multiple lifestyle factors such as obesity and alcohol consumption increase a person’s risk of diabetes. But new research suggests that a person’s odds of developing the disease may decrease for each positive lifestyle change they make. Lifestyle factors that can influence the risk of developing type 2 diabetes include diet, weight, physical activity, smoking, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2934&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Filling without drilling</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/06/filling-without-drilling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Leeds have discovered a pain-free way of tackling dental decay that reverses the damage of acid attack and re-builds teeth as new. The pioneering treatment promises to transform the approach to filling teeth forever. Tooth decay begins when acid produced by bacteria in plaque dissolves the mineral in the teeth, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2932&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decision making changes with age &#8212; and age helps!</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/06/decision-making-changes-with-age-and-age-helps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We make decisions all our lives—so you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d get better and better at it. Yet research has shown that younger adults are better decision makers than older ones. Some Texas psychologists, puzzled by these findings, suspected the experiments were biased toward younger brains. So, rather than testing the ability to make decisions one at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2930&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Reengineer an Antibiotic to Overcome Dangerous Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/09/04/scientists-reengineer-an-antibiotic-to-overcome-dangerous-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have successfully reengineered an important antibiotic to kill the deadliest antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The compound could one day be used clinically to treat patients with life-threatening and highly resistant bacterial infections. The results were published in an advanced online issue of the Journal of the American Chemical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2928&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An RNA Switch for Stem Cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/29/an-rna-switch-for-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RNA molecules have long been known for their role in translating genes to proteins inside a cell, but more recently, scientists have found large numbers of RNA molecules that don&#8217;t code for proteins but seem to have other cellular roles. Most research in mammals has focused on tiny RNA molecules called microRNAs, but a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2926&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trial Shows Blockbuster Potential for Blood Clot Pill Eliquis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An experimental pill to prevent blood clots exceeded already high expectations as a better therapy for millions of people with atrial fibrillation, according to final results of a worldwide study released Sunday. The study was featured at the European Society of Cardiology in Paris and simultaneously published on the Web site of The New England [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2924&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portfolio Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet at Lowering Cholesterol</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/28/portfolio-diet-beats-low-fat-diet-at-lowering-cholesterol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-lowering foods, lowered their low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels by about 13% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2922&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bran, soy help cut cholesterol</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/25/bran-soy-help-cut-cholesterol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit and nuts instead of a full lunch prompted a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2920&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Therapy Works for &#8216;Bubble Boy&#8217; Disease</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/25/gene-therapy-works-for-bubble-boy-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine years after getting gene therapy for a rare, inherited immune system disorder often called &#8220;bubble boy disease,&#8221; 14 out of 16 children are doing well, researchers report. The children were born with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). They got an experimental gene therapy in the U.K. A new report shows that nine years later, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2918&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers produce detailed map of gene activity in mouse brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/24/researchers-produce-detailed-map-of-gene-activity-in-mouse-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain provides insight into how genes work in the outer part of the brain called the cerebral cortex. In humans, the cerebral cortex is the largest part of the brain, and the region responsible for memory, sensory perception and language. Mice and people share 90 percent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2916&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin of Life on Earth</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/24/study-builds-on-plausible-scenario-for-origin-of-life-on-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry co-authored by a professor at the University of California, Merced. The study, &#8220;A Route to Enantiopure RNA Precursors from Nearly Racemic Starting Materials,&#8221; shows how the precursors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2914&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny particle &#8211; MIT News Office</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/24/mimicking-biological-complexity-in-a-tiny-particle-mit-news-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiny particles made of polymers hold great promise for targeted delivery of drugs and as structural scaffolds for building artificial tissues. However, current production methods for such microparticles yield a limited array of shapes and can only be made with certain materials, restricting their usefulness. In an advance that could broadly expand the possible applications [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2912&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Help Pinpoint Cause of Stress-Related DNA Damage</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/24/scientists-help-pinpoint-cause-of-stress-related-dna-damage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working closely with a team of researchers from Duke University, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have helped identify a molecular pathway that plays a key role in stress-related damage to the genome, the entirety of an organism&#8217;s hereditary information. The new findings, published in the journal Nature on August 21, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2910&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chromosomes and Cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/21/chromosomes-and-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aneuploidy—when the cells of an organism contain more or fewer than the standard number of chromosomes for its species—is found in greater than 90 percent of all human cancers. But how exactly it relates to cancer, and whether it is a cause or merely a consequence of genomic instability, has long been a mystery. Two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2908&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the Protein Tango</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/21/watching-the-protein-tango/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new microscope has allowed researchers to watch molecules move within a cell on a millisecond-by-millisecond time scale for the first time. The novel method, which combines two preëxisting microscopic techniques, opens a window onto cellular processes that had previously been undetectable, unveiling molecular activity within a cell at a much finer level than ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2906&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Obese People Live as Long as Slimmer People</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/21/study-obese-people-live-as-long-as-slimmer-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obese people who are otherwise healthy live as long as normal-weight people, new research from Canada suggests. Some obese but healthy people actually are less likely to die of heart problems than normal-weight people who have some medical conditions, the researchers found. &#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t just look at body weight alone,&#8221; says researcher Jennifer Kuk, PhD, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2904&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study identifies fish oil&#8217;s impact on cognition and brain structure</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/18/study-identifies-fish-oils-impact-on-cognition-and-brain-structure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The study was led by Lori Daiello, PharmD, a research scientist at the Rhode Island Hospital Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease and Memory Disorders Center. Data for the analyses was obtained from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a large multi-center, NIH-funded study that followed older adults with normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease for over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2902&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Create Life?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/16/can-we-create-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tossing, Turning, Forgetting</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/16/tossing-turning-forgetting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuity of sleep, not just the total hours of nightly slumber, is crucial to forming and retaining memories, a new study in mice suggests. Mice couldn’t remember objects they’d seen before after a night of interrupted sleep, Asya Rolls of Stanford and her colleagues report online July 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2898&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Genome, Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/15/beyond-the-genome-cancer%e2%80%99s-secrets-come-into-sharper-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last decade cancer research has been guided by a common vision of how a single cell, outcompeting its neighbors, evolves into a malignant tumor. Through a series of random mutations, genes that encourage cellular division are pushed into overdrive, while genes that normally send growth-restraining signals are taken offline. With the accelerator floored [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2896&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ovarian cancer risk gene pinpointed</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/15/ovarian-cancer-risk-gene-pinpointed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have pinpointed a rare gene variant that increases a woman&#8217;s risk of developing ovarian cancer six-fold. The discovery will lead to new diagnostic tests to identify the cancer earlier and provides better information to help doctors choose targeted anti-cancer drugs. Ovarian cancer can develop without many clear symptoms and is the fifth most common [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2894&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep apnea may raise dementia risk, study finds</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/15/sleep-apnea-may-raise-dementia-risk-study-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep apnea, a fairly common, treatable disorder that causes people to stop breathing momentarily while they sleep, may lead to cognitive impairment and even dementia, according to a new study of elderly women. Women in the study with sleep apnea or other sleep disorders that affected their breathing were much more likely than those with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2892&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Super&#8217; mouse evolves resistance to most poisons</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/15/super-mouse-evolves-resistance-to-most-poisons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[German and Spanish mice have rapidly evolved the trait by breeding with an Algerian species from which they have been separate for over a million years. The researchers say this type of gene transfer is highly unusual and normally found in plants and bacteria. The Current Biology report says this process could yield mice resistant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2890&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Blood Thinner Prevents Strokes in Heart Patients</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/14/new-blood-thinner-prevents-strokes-in-heart-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly approved drug Xarelto appears to prevent strokes at least as well as the standard treatment warfarin in people who have a heart condition that puts them at high risk for blood clots, a study shows. Xarelto was approved by the FDA in July to prevent dangerous blood clots in people having hip and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2888&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Meat, Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes Risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/13/red-meat-processed-meat-linked-to-diabetes-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red meat, particularly processed red meats like bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, may increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The more processed or unprocessed red meat a person eats, the greater the risk, according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Type 2 diabetes is linked with obesity. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2886&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intestinal protein may have role in ADHD, other neurological disorders</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/12/intestinal-protein-may-have-role-in-adhd-other-neurological-disorders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A biochemical pathway long associated with diarrhea and intestinal function may provide a new therapeutic target for treating ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) other neuropsychiatric disorders, according to a team of scientists from China and the United States reporting Aug. 11 in Science. Scientists have for the last quarter century studied the intestinal membrane receptor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2882&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford engineers redefine how the brain plans movement</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/12/stanford-engineers-redefine-how-the-brain-plans-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New measurement technologies and techniques provide researchers more complete look at neurological activity In 1991, Carl Lewis was both the fastest man on earth and a profound long jumper, perhaps the greatest track-and-field star of all time in the prime of his career. On June 14th of that year, however, Carl Lewis was human. Leroy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2877&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research Team Discovers New Conducting Properties of Bacteria-Produced Nanowires</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/10/research-team-discovers-new-conducting-properties-of-bacteria-produced-nanowires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, says a team of physicists and microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their findings reported in the Aug. 7 advance online issue of Nature Nanotechnology may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2874&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A novel mechanism that regulates pro-inflammatory cells is identified</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/10/a-novel-mechanism-that-regulates-pro-inflammatory-cells-is-identified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discovery has implications for autoimmune diseases, HIV infection and possibly in cancer as a biomarker and in the development of new treatments New research led by Derya Unutmaz, MD associate professor, the Departments of Pathology, Medicine, and Microbiology at NYU School of Medicine and Mark Sundrud, PhD, of Tempero Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has identified a novel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2869&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lab-Grown Disks May Cure That Aching Back</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/08/lab-grown-disks-may-cure-that-aching-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Squishy, doughnut-shaped disks can make the difference between a pain-free, active lifestyle or years of back discomfort. When the disks that normally cushion each vertebra in the spine start to degenerate, due to aging or injury, nerves can be pinched and movement impeded. But degenerating disks may soon be replaceable with bioengineered disk implants grown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2867&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New study calls into question reliance on animal models in cardiovascular research</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/07/new-study-calls-into-question-reliance-on-animal-models-in-cardiovascular-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who follows science has read enthusiastic stories about medical breakthroughs that include the standard disclaimer that the results were obtained in mice and might not carry over to humans. Much later, there might be reports that a drug has been abandoned because clinical trials turned up unforeseen side effects or responses in humans. Given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2865&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study shows man-made fat may limit damage to heart attack victims</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/07/study-shows-man-made-fat-may-limit-damage-to-heart-attack-victims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FINDINGS: A man-made fat called Intralipid, which is currently used as a component of intravenous nutrition and to treat rare overdoses of local anesthetics, may also offer protection for patients suffering from heart attacks. Current treatment for a heart attack focuses on limiting the duration of the ischemic period, when blood flow to tissues is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2863&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Skin Cells Converted Directly into Functional Neurons</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/06/human-skin-cells-converted-directly-into-functional-neurons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbia University Medical Center researchers have for the first time directly converted human skin cells into functional forebrain neurons, without the need for stem cells of any kind. The findings offer a new and potentially more direct way to produce replacement cell therapies for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.  Such cells may prove especially useful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2861&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New approach a step forward for hepatitis C vaccine</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/05/new-approach-a-step-forward-for-hepatitis-c-vaccine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[French scientists have developed a novel hepatitis C vaccine that may offer the first effective way to prevent an infection that can cause chronic liver disease and cancer. There is currently no available vaccine for hepatitis C, though some companies are developing so-called &#8220;therapeutic vaccines,&#8221; which are designed to help patients who are already infected. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2859&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Discovery Could Lead to New Stroke Treatments</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/05/gene-discovery-could-lead-to-new-stroke-treatments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaque buildup in the arteries is a major risk factor for strokes and heart attack, but some plaques are far more dangerous than others. The problem is there is no good way to distinguish relatively benign plaque on artery walls from plaque that will break off and cause harm, but that may soon change. Researchers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2857&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elsevier introduces Genome Viewer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/04/elsevier-introduces-genome-viewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, introduces the Genome Viewer, a new interactive feature on SciVerse ScienceDirect for applicable life sciences journals. The Genome Viewer is a SciVerse application that displays detailed gene or genomic sequence information on the genes mentioned in an article. The Genome Viewer utilizes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2855&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Females can place limits on evolution of attractive features in males, research shows</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/04/females-can-place-limits-on-evolution-of-attractive-features-in-males-research-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Female cognitive ability can limit how melodious or handsome males become over evolutionary time, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have observed. Males across the animal world have evolved elaborate traits to attract females, from huge peacock tails to complex bird [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2853&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[n 1758 the Swedish taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus dubbed our species Homo sapiens, Latin for “wise man.” It’s a matter of open debate whether we actually live up to that moniker. If Linnaeus had wanted to stand on more solid ground, he could have instead called us Homo megalencephalus: “man with a giant brain. ”Regardless of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2851&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Bag and Tag the Stem Cell That May Create An Endless Supply of Blood</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/04/scientists-bag-and-tag-the-stem-cell-that-may-create-an-endless-supply-of-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rejoice ye vampires, the pursuit of an endless supply of blood took a major leap forward this month. Researchers at the Ontario Cancer Institute, led by John Dick, have found a way to hunt down and isolate the stem cells from which your entire blood supply is derived. Until now, these hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2849&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the brain assigns objects to categories</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/02/how-the-brain-assigns-objects-to-categories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human brain is adept at recognizing similar items and placing them into categories — for example, dog versus cat, or chair versus table. In a new study, MIT neuroscientists have identified the brain activity that appears to control this skill. The findings, published in the July 27 issue of the journal Neuron, suggest a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2847&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers increase the potency of HIV-battling proteins</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/02/caltech-researchers-increase-the-potency-of-hiv-battling-proteins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If one is good, two can sometimes be better. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have certainly found this to be the case when it comes to a small HIV-fighting protein. The protein, called cyanovirin-N (CV-N), is produced by a type of blue-green algae and has gained attention for its ability to ward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2843&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nanofiber Regenerates Blood Vessels</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/02/nanofiber-regenerates-blood-vessels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regenerating blood vessels is important for combating the aftereffects of a heart attack or peripheral arterial disease, and for ensuring that transplanted organs receive a sufficient supply of blood. Now researchers at Northwestern University have created a nanomaterial that could help the body to grow new blood vessels. Samuel Stupp and his colleagues developed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2841&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Shrinkage Linked to Smoking, Obesity, Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/02/brain-shrinkage-linked-to-smoking-obesity-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who smoke, are overweight, and have other health problems in middle age may be at increased risk of developing signs of brain shrinkage and diminished planning and organization skills as they age, new research indicates. Other health problems linked to brain shrinkage and mental decline include high blood pressure and diabetes. “Our findings provide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2839&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colon Cleansing May Be Risky, Study Finds</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/02/colon-cleansing-may-be-risky-study-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colon cleansing, promoted as a natural way to boost well-being, has no proven benefits and may be risky, according to a new report. Ranit Mishori, MD, a family medicine doctor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, looked at studies that evaluated colon hydrotherapy or irrigation. She also looked at studies of cleansing by the use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2837&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disease-causing tangle could spawn new materials &#8211; MIT News Office</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/08/02/disease-causing-tangle-could-spawn-new-materials-mit-news-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most people hear the word amyloid, they immediately think of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. And indeed, it was in the brains of Alzheimer&#8217;s patients that these dense protein masses were first identified. But it turns out that besides playing a role in a number of diseases, amyloids also play an important structural role in many organisms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2835&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing voices depends on language ability</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/31/recognizing-voices-depends-on-language-ability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Distinguishing between other peoples voices may seem like a trivial task. However, if those people are speaking a language you dont understand, it becomes much harder. Thats because you rely on individuals differences in pronunciation to help identify them. If you dont understand the words they are saying, you dont pick up on those differences. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2833&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How memory is lost: Loss of memory due to aging may be reversible</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/30/how-memory-is-lost-loss-of-memory-due-to-aging-may-be-reversible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Yale University researchers can&#8217;t tell you where you left your car keys &#8212; but they can tell you why you can&#8217;t find them A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2831&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social deficits associated with autism, schizophrenia induced in mice with new technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have been able to switch on, and then switch off, social-behavior deficits in mice that resemble those seen in people with autism and schizophrenia, thanks to a technology that allows scientists to precisely manipulate nerve activity in the brain. In synchrony with this experimentally induced socially aberrant behavior, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2829&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers trace early journey of modulating cells in brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/27/researchers-trace-early-journey-of-modulating-cells-in-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key cells in the brain region known as the hippocampus are formed in the base of the brain late in fetal life and undertake a long journey before reaching their final destination in the center of the brain shortly after birth, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The hippocampus is involved with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2827&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Step Closer to Personalized Medicine: Improving Gene Therapy To Treat a Devastating Genetic Disease</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/27/a-step-closer-to-personalized-medicine-improving-gene-therapy-to-treat-a-devastating-genetic-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent advances in adult stem cell research could change the way doctors treat a host of debilitating diseases. At NIAID, scientists are exploring novel ways to convert adult tissue into more primitive stem cells and then use these cells to treat chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), an inherited disease of the immune system. The most exciting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2825&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Project to Study the Link between Genetics and Health</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/26/massive-project-to-study-the-link-between-genetics-and-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[{EAV_BLOG_VER:13a6d03f2fd3e77f} Most health insurers are wary of genetics because, in most cases, it&#8217;s not yet clear how a particular genetic variation influences an individual&#8217;s health, or whether it should affect their care. Now Kaiser Permanente, the nation&#8217;s largest nonprofit health plan, has announced that it&#8217;s finished the first phase of a massive project to compile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2819&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharper, Deeper, Faster: Interdisciplinary Team Develops Advanced Live-Imaging Approach</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/26/sharper-deeper-faster-interdisciplinary-team-develops-advanced-live-imaging-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For modern biologists, the ability to capture high-quality, three-dimensional (3D) images of living tissues or organisms over time is necessary to answer problems in areas ranging from genomics to neurobiology and developmental biology. The better the image, the more detailed the information that can be drawn from it. Looking to improve upon current methods of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2814&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mice with human livers deal with drugs the human way</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/24/mice-with-human-livers-deal-with-drugs-the-human-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unique physiology of the human liver means that the toxicity of some candidate drugs is not picked up during preclinical tests in animals. But mice implanted with miniature human livers can mimic the ways in which the human body breaks down chemical compounds, to help spot potential problems before drugs are tested in humans. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2812&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain cancer treatment</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/23/stem-cells-restore-cognitive-abilities-impaired-by-brain-cancer-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human neural stem cells are capable of helping people regain learning and memory abilities lost due to radiation treatment for brain tumors, a UC Irvine study suggests. Research with rats found that stem cells transplanted two days after cranial irradiation restored cognitive function, as measured in one- and four-month assessments. In contrast, irradiated rats not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2810&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New technique boosts efficiency of blood cell production from human stem cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/23/new-technique-boosts-efficiency-of-blood-cell-production-from-human-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed an improved technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient&#8217;s own cells. The new technique will be immediately useful in further stem cell studies, and when perfected, could be used in stem cell therapies for a wide variety of conditions including cancers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2808&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kidney dopamine regulates blood pressure, life span</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/23/kidney-dopamine-regulates-blood-pressure-life-span/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The neurotransmitter dopamine is best known for its roles in the brain – in signaling pathways that control movement, motivation, reward, learning and memory. Now, Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have demonstrated that dopamine produced outside the brain – in the kidneys – is important for renal function, blood pressure regulation and life span. Their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2806&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yogurt, Canned Tomatoes, and More</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/23/best-healthy-foods-you-aren%e2%80%99t-eating-greek-yogurt-canned-tomatoes-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Adding to the confusion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2804&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Omega-3s Linked to Lower Dementia Risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/22/omega-3s-linked-to-lower-dementia-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A diet rich in certain omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. In a study of more than 2,000 older women and men followed for nearly five years, the more omega-3-rich oily fish they ate, the lower their risk of developing dementia. The researchers looked specifically at the omega-3 fatty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2802&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity &#8216;leading driver&#8217; of breast cancer</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/21/obesity-leading-driver-of-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obesity is the biggest driving force behind the most common form of breast cancer in older women, say researchers. Alcohol and then cigarettes are the next largest culprits, according to Cancer Research UK. One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the majority of these tumours are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2800&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caltech researchers create the first artificial neural network out of DNA</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/20/caltech-researchers-create-the-first-artificial-neural-network-out-of-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or a silicon chip, but in a test tube. The researchers are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2797&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers discover gene required to maintain male sex throughout life</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/20/researchers-discover-gene-required-to-maintain-male-sex-throughout-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences researchers have made a key discovery showing that male sex must be maintained throughout life. The research team, led by Drs. David Zarkower and Vivian Bardwell of the U of M Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, found that removing an important male development [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2794&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists find &#8216;better way&#8217; to grow adult stem cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/19/scientists-find-better-way-to-grow-adult-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new plastic surface which overcomes the difficulties associated with growing adult stem cells has been developed, according to scientists. Standard surfaces have proved limited for growing large amounts and retaining the stem cells&#8217; useful characteristics. It is hoped the discovery could lead to the creation of stem cell therapies for re-growing bone and tissue, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2792&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newly developed fluorescent protein makes internal organs visible</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/19/newly-developed-fluorescent-protein-makes-internal-organs-visible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed the first fluorescent protein that enables scientists to clearly &#8220;see&#8221; the internal organs of living animals without the need for a scalpel or imaging techniques that can have side effects or increase radiation exposure. Caption: Liver cells in this mouse contain the fluorescent protein [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2789&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Aspirin May Help Memory, Thinking Skills</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/19/baby-aspirin-may-help-memory-thinking-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women who are taking a baby aspirin or two a day for their heart health may be safeguarding their brain health, too, preliminary research suggests. In a five-year study of more than 100 older people at similar risk for heart disease, scores on a standardized test that gauges memory and other cognitive skills increased slightly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2787&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers use fluorescent nanotubes to study inner workings of lab mice</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/14/researchers-use-fluorescent-nanotubes-to-study-inner-workings-of-lab-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing drugs to combat or cure human disease often involves a phase of testing with mice, so being able to peer clearly into a living mouse&#8217;s innards has real value. But with the fluorescent dyes currently used to image the interior of laboratory mice, the view becomes murky a few millimeters under the skin. Now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2785&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Higher-protein diets can improve appetite control and satiety</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/12/higher-protein-diets-can-improve-appetite-control-and-satiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study demonstrates that higher-protein meals improve perceived appetite and satiety in overweight and obese men during weight loss.(1) According to the research, published in Obesity, higher-protein intake led to greater satiety throughout the day as well as reductions in both late-night and morning appetite compared to a normal protein diet. &#8220;Research has shown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2783&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Find New Clues to Aging</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/08/scientists-find-new-clues-to-aging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mutant protein known to be involved in the rare premature aging condition known as progeria appears to play a role in normal aging, too, scientists report. The mechanism that triggers premature aging also seems to trigger normal cell aging.The finding is expected to offer new clues about aging.&#8221;We have learned something fundamental about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2779&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Living Laser’ Engineered From Human Cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/%e2%80%98living-laser%e2%80%99-engineered-from-human-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical researchers from Harvard University have created the first “living laser”; a biological cell that’s been genetically engineered to produce a visible laser beam. Lasers need two things to generate beams. They need a gain medium that amplifies light, and an arrangement of mirrors to concentrate and align that light. Normal lasers, ever since their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2777&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers identify HIV-inhibiting mechanism</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/researchers-identify-hiv-inhibiting-mechanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a long-sought cellular factor that works to inhibit HIV infection of myeloid cells, a subset of white blood cells that display antigens and hence are important for the body&#8217;s immune response against viruses and other pathogens. The factor, a protein called SAMHD1, is part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2775&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Late, Gain Weight?</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/eat-late-gain-weight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Checking a clock may be as helpful as counting calories when it comes to controlling body weight, a new study suggests. The study shows that people who snack after 8 p.m. have higher body mass indexes (BMIs) than people who don’t nosh at night, even though they don’t eat significantly more total daily calories. Previous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2773&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resistant mice provide clues about successful immune response to retroviruses</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/resistant-mice-provide-clues-about-successful-immune-response-to-retroviruses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although our body&#8217;s defense mechanisms are usually capable of detecting and destroying many types of pathogens, some viruses are able to evade the immune system and make us sick. In particular, &#8220;retroviruses,&#8221; such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are notorious for eluding host immune defenses and causing disease. Now, a new study published by Cell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2771&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nervous system stem cells can replace themselves, give rise to variety of cell types, even amplify</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/nervous-system-stem-cells-can-replace-themselves-give-rise-to-variety-of-cell-types-even-amplify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Johns Hopkins team has discovered in young adult mice that a lone brain stem cell is capable not only of replacing itself and giving rise to specialized neurons and glia – important types of brain cells – but also of taking a wholly unexpected path: generating two new brain stem cells. Caption: A green fluorescent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2769&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NIH funds massive genome studies that identify genetics behind white blood cell counts</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/nih-funds-massive-genome-studies-that-identify-genetics-behind-white-blood-cell-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trio of large-scale genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, have identified more than 15 gene variants responsible for the diversity of white blood cell counts among whites, African-Americans, and Japanese. Supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, each study examined the genomes of tens of thousands of people. Combined, the studies offer the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2767&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research reveals new secret weapon for Le Tour</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/research-reveals-new-secret-weapon-for-le-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winning margins in the Tour de France can be tight – last year just 39 seconds separated the top two riders after more than 90 hours in the saddle. When every second counts, riders do everything possible to gain a competitive advantage – from using aerodynamic carbon fibre bikes to the very latest in sports [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2765&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New technique advances bioprinting of cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/new-technique-advances-bioprinting-of-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since an ordinary office inkjet printer had its ink cartridges swapped out for a cargo of cells about 10 years ago and sprayed out cell-packed droplets to create living tissue, scientists and engineers have never looked at office equipment in quite the same way. They dream of using a specialized bio-inkjet printer to grow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2763&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pigeons never forget a face</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/07/03/pigeons-never-forget-a-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes. Researchers, who will be presenting their work at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Glasgow on Sunday the 3rd of July, have shown that urban pigeons that have never been caught or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2759&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lean gene linked to heart risk</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/06/30/lean-gene-linked-to-heart-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genes that result in a slender figure have been linked to heart disease and type-two diabetes, conditions normally associated with being overweight.A study suggests variants of the IRS1 gene reduce fat under the skin, but not the more dangerous visceral fat around organs such as the heart and liver.The Medical Research Council study, published in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2757&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Reverses Accelerated Aging in Human Cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/06/30/drug-reverses-accelerated-aging-in-human-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drug rapamycin has been found to reverse the effects of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, a fatal genetic disease that resembles rapid aging, in cells taken from patients with the disease. Rapamycin, an immunosuppressant drug used to prevent rejection of transplanted organs, has already been shown to extend life span in healthy mice. Researchers hope the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2755&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oxygen on the Brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/05/23/oxygen-on-the-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AN ANCIENT CELLULAR PROGRAM to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. For more than two billion years on this planet, O2 has been the go-to gas for generating efficient cellular energy. But life on Earth never takes oxygen for granted. “When it runs low, cells swiftly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2753&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Nanotube Patch to Help Heal the Heart </title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/05/23/a-nanotube-patch-to-help-heal-the-heart%c2%a0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 03:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers create carbon nanotubes that mimic natural tissue and can regenerate heart cells in a dish. A conductive patch of carbon nanotubes can regenerate heart tissue growing in a dish, according to preliminary research from Brown University. The patch, made of tiny chains of carbon atoms that fold in on themselves, forming a tube, conducts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2751&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dietary Supplement May Help Prevent Preeclampsia</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/05/23/dietary-supplement-may-help-prevent-preeclampsia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 03:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An inexpensive dietary supplement appears to help prevent the serious pregnancy complication preeclampsia in high-risk women, according to a new study. But researchers say the effect in lower-risk pregnancies remains to be determined. In the study from Mexico, women who ate daily food bars containing the amino acid L-arginine and antioxidant vitamins during pregnancy had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2749&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny variation in one gene may have led to crucial changes in human brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 22:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human brain has yet to explain the origin of one its defining features &#8212; the deep fissures and convolutions that increase its surface area and allow for rational and abstract thoughts. An international collaboration of scientists from the Yale School of Medicine and Turkey may have discovered humanity&#8217;s beneficiary &#8212; a tiny variation within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2746&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reprogrammed cells trigger immune reactions in mice</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/05/15/reprogrammed-cells-trigger-immune-reactions-in-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 17:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cells that have been reprogrammed to grow into different types of tissue might be rejected by the body — even when they are transplanted into the individual from whom they are made, researchers report in a study published today in Nature1.The study was led by Yang Xu, a molecular biologist at the University of California, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2744&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new program for neural stem cells</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/05/14/a-new-program-for-neural-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 15:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neural stem cells can do a lot, but not everything. For example, brain and spinal cord cells are not usually generated by neural stem cells of the peripheral nervous system, and it is not possible to produce cells of the peripheral nervous system from the stem cells of the brain. However, researchers from the Max [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2741&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sound Test Might Signal Minimal Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/05/13/sound-test-might-signal-minimal-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk between the brain’s decision-making center, or frontal cortex, and other brain regions might distinguish aware individuals from those stripped of conscious thought. Identifying such signaling malfunctions could speed the diagnosis of vegetative states and give scientists insight into such devastating disorders, an international team of researchers reports May 12 in Science. Today, diagnosing a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2739&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Inside Look at the Teen Brain</title>
		<link>http://biosingularity.com/2011/05/13/an-inside-look-at-the-teen-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 00:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eva-Marie Fredric thought her then-14-year-old son, Dylan, could handle the task of packing for their trip to the mountains. But when the two arrived at the campsite, she found the tent &#8212; but no tent poles. &#8220;We slept outside on an inflated air mattress, freezing our bums off, with the dog huddled between us,&#8221; recalls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biosingularity.com&amp;blog=38725&amp;post=2737&amp;subd=biosingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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