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HIV Drug Persists in Breast Milk |
 ...drug helps reduce the risk of HIV transmission by 50 percent, to nearly 13 percent. But very few women who live in the sub-Saharan Africa have access to the zidovudine and/or nevirapine.
In their latest study, researchers from Stanford tried to better understand the issue. Scientists observed a group of 32 women infected with HIV living in Zimbabwe. Together with his associates David Katzenstein has performed research... |
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European Union is Angry on Microsoft |
 ...e with Brussels, the company faced further fines for seeking unreasonable prices from the software developers for vital data. The European Union criticized Microsoft. The EU executive stated that the latest formal charges might lead the American software corporation to additional daily penalties.
Jonathan Todd, the competition spokesman of European Commission, said that the EU, for the first time in its antitrust policy... |
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DNA research approaches the origins of human beings |
 ...Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find traces of human ancestry.
Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data tested and take part in the research on v... |
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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
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Nowadays no one should feel indifferent about the serious consequences that global warming entails. One of the main goals set on the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in Washington, where Bush administration was criticized for inadequate response to global warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new commit... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...such bacteria was recently used and it proved to be successful on mice.
One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the chronic infections occurring in wounds or in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis.
This way the current study is directed at finding a new approach in fighting up... |
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CBS acquires an online high school sports network |
 ...in promoting not only the sports stars, but will also show the entire nation the upcoming stars in all kinds of national sports. He said that this transaction will keep millions of people informed on latest high school sports events and will entertain sport communities based around high schools.
Mr. Beal will retain his seat, yet obliged to report to Brian Bedol, the President and CEO of the CSTV Networks, Inc.
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Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy |
 ...heroin and cocaine. Tobacco was placed ninth and fell within a category B drug, after amphetamine. Such dangerous drugs as cannabis, LSD, ecstasy were left far near the end of the drug list.
This latest study raised the question that government's drug policy was not paying enough attention to modern state of affairs and didn't take notice of the scientific findings.
There should be no surprise that ecstasy drug was... |
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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability |
| ...Users who work with the latest versions of Windows should be aware that they are at a great risk of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its... |
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New chocolate can save the planet |
 ...and many other vitamins. And now those who know what pure chocolate tastes like have an opportunity not only to enjoy a new product but to do it with the awareness they are environment-friendly.
A latest trend in chocolate industry is the production of raw chocolate that is claimed to be not less tasty but far more nutritional for people.
UK brought in raw chocolate production three years ago and some raw communiti... |
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Now one blood group fits everyone |
| ...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another.
The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ... |
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Difficult child-good marriage conquers all |
| ...The latest research showed that couples who have supportive marital relationships can deal with disturbing children easier and this only makes their marriage stronger.
A new study was conducted by Schoppe Sullivan, Sarah Mangelsdorf, Geoffrey Brown from University of Illinois together with Margaret Szewczyk from University of Minneapolis.
The study involved 97 couples expecting a baby who were examined for the exten... |
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Robot to Help Neurosurgery |
 ...obot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine.
It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a leading team of Canadian Scientists. Dr. Garnette has cooperated with MacD... |
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Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk |
| ...The latest scientific research reveals that biofuels used in vehicles may be more harmful for human health than the petrol used today. By 2020, 10% of all transport means should run on biofuels as agreed by the EU.
The researchers invented a special computer model to determine air quality in 2020. The model showed that ozone level in some regions would grow if bioethanol was used for all cars. It would cause more ail... |
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New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans |
 ...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power.
Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ... |
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Google collects your web habits |
 ...e to keep on storing or delete the stored data, though due to the peculiarities of Google's privacy policy, this data will still be saved for auditing.
The most concerns are also connected to the latest Google's joining of the DoubleClick advertising company that implies that your data can become an easy target for advertising purposes.
Service that tracks user's web habits give a cause for concern to other compani... |
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