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Ready to control Columbus
11-22-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)ESA's Columbus Control Centre - Europe's 'Houston' - is in operation now for Astrolab while readying for the European Columbus laboratory in 2007.
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- Herding aphids -- how 'farmer' ants keep control of their food
10-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
Chemicals on ants' feet tranquilise and subdue colonies of aphids, keeping them close by as a ready source of food, says new research published today, Oct. 10. The study throws new light on the complex relationship between ants and the colonies of aphids whose sugary secretions the ants eat.
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- Controlling Columbus
10-17-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESApod reports from the Columbus Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where the team is preparing to support the European Columbus laboratory.
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- 'Smart' sunglasses feature lenses that change color on demand
03-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Get ready for the coolest, most colorful shades on the planet: Chemists at the University of Washington in Seattle say they are developing 'smart' sunglasses that will allow the wearer to instantly change the color of their lenses to virtually any hue of the rainbow by tuning a control knob on the glasses. The research will be presented in March at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Chicago.
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- Anemia and tropical diseases; Is pharmacogenomics ready for the clinic?
08-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
The following press releases are in the next issue of PLoS Medicine: "Could anemia be used to assess the burden and control of neglected tropical diseases?" and "Translating pharmacogenomics: challenges on the road to the clinic."
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- Latest ESA Bulletin (No. 132, November 2007) now online
12-04-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
This issue of ESA's flagship magazine, the Bulletin, carries a broad range of articles: the International Space Station is now ready for this week's launch of Europe's Columbus module.
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- MIT Team finds new mechanism of gene control
07-12-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Biologists have long thought that a simple on/off switch controls most genes in human cells. Flip the switch and a cell starts or stops producing a particular protein. But new evidence suggests that our genes are more ready for action than previously thought.
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- Studies of 20,000 smokers show quit rates double with counseling and free nicotine patches
11-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
Studies of 20,000 smokers show increasing the level of Quitline smoking cessation services and offering free nicotine patches are a successful and cost-effective way to reduce smoking rates, according to new studies in the December issue of Tobacco Control, a peer-reviewed publication of the British Medical Journal.
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- Substance abuse in Somali combatants; and more
12-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
An alarming rise in drug-related problems amongst militia in southern and central Somalia, which has not been under the control of any type of government for more than a decade, is reported in a study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.
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- Making hospitals safer from infection
12-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
International Legionella expert Janet Stout, Ph.D., is urging public health and infection control officers to be proactive against Legionella and other waterborne microbes that contribute to soaring hospital infection rates.
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- Weight gain induced by antipsychotic drugs can be avoided
01-16-2008 · EurekAlert!
A research team from Universite Laval's Faculty of Medicine and Robert-Giffard Hospital has demonstrated that weight gain induced by the use of antipsychotic drugs -- which in extreme cases can be as high as 30 kilos in only one month -- can be avoided through a specially designed weight control program. The researchers report the details of their findings in a recent edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
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