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Urban sprawl not cause of human sprawl
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!Researchers question the link between obesity and sprawling neighborhoods.
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- Urban sprawl not cause of human sprawl: Study
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers question link between obesity and sprawling neighborhoods.
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12-07-2006 · EurekAlert!
While investigating a fungus known to cause an infection in people with AIDS, two grantees of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, unexpectedly discovered a potential strategy for treating metastatic melanoma, one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer. The treatment approach, which involves combining an antibody with radiation, has since been further developed and is expected to enter early-stage human clinical studies in 2007.
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02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
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05-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
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10-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- MIT's 'robocar' named finalist
11-01-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Team MIT has made it to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge, a competition for cars and trucks that run without human help. The goal of the contest is to develop vehicles that can operate on their own in battle and keep humans out of harm's way.
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- Study shows urban sprawl continues to gobble up land
12-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Despite reports to the contrary, urban sprawl has continued to grow significantly for the past several decades, new research suggests. A study of changing land use patterns in the state of Maryland found substantial and significant increases in sprawl between 1973 and 2000.
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08-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses -- including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C -- have features in common that could eventually make them vulnerable to broad-spectrum antiviral agents.
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- Bacteria that cause urinary tract infections invade bladder cells
12-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found definitive proof that some of the bacteria that plague women with urinary tract infections are entrenched inside human bladder cells. The finding confirms a controversial revision of scientists' model of how bacteria cause UTIs. Previously, most researchers assumed that the bacteria responsible for infections get into the bladder but do not invade the individual cells that line the interior of the bladder.
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