Saturday, May 9th, 2009
London, May 9 (ANI): Scientists have found the gene, called SLC25A38, which causes congenital sideroblastic anaemia-a rare disease mainly characterized by the presence of ringed sideroblasts in the patients' bone marrow.
The research is a Genome Canada project, which is co-directed by Dr. Mark Samuels, an investigator with the Sainte-Justine University ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Washington, May 9 (ANI):Terming Pakistan as the "nerve center of al Qaeda's global operations", the US Central Command chief General David Petraeus has said that top commanders of the outfit are utilizing the terror safe havens situated in country's ungoverned tribal regions to plot terror strikes around ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
New York, May 9 (ANI): American Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced that the crown of the Statue of Liberty will be reopened to tourists on July 4, to mark the 233rd birthday of the country.
This is the first time that visitors will be welcomed to the Statue of ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
New Delhi, May 8 (ANI/Business Wire India): COPC, the world's leading Business Excellence certification in the contact center industry worldwide, has recently launched secen new certifications in association with QAI, their exclusive implementation partner in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Starting April 2009 companies have the flexibility of going for ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Baltimore, May 8 (ANI): Former Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is back in the pool to the delight of trainer Dawn-Marie Caingrinned.
Phelps practiced a few of his famed trade mark strokes inside the pool at the Loyola College Fitness and Aquatic Center here.
Weeks after he considered walking away from the ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have created an "astro-comb" to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant stars.
In most cases, extrasolar planets can't be seen directly-the glare of the nearby star is too great-but their influence can ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
London, May 7 (ANI): A group of scientists have identified three genes that specifically mediate the metastasis, or spread, of breast cancer to the brain and how.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have found that COX2 and HB-EGF - genes that induce cancer cell mobility and invasiveness - are ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 07 (ANI): Science continues to provide new ways for obese people to lose weight. The latest offering being an incision-free procedure to correct stomachs that have stretched in patients who had gastric bypass surgery.
Weight gain after gastric bypass surgery is common. Over time, the small stomach pouch created ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 7 (ANI): A study suggests that the use of drug-eluting stents on heart attack patients undergoing angioplasty is more effective and as safe as that of bare-metal stents.
Lead researcher Dr. Gregg W. Stone, a professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, has revealed that in ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 7 (ANI): A new research by a scientist has shown that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
The research was done by Charles Horowitz, a professor in the IU (Indiana University) College of ...
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