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A team of researchers from the Netherlands and the University of Florida has found that plants that range beyond their normal distribution because of warming climates may have advantages over native plants. Global warming-induced biological invasions may represent an additional threat to biodiversity.

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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have gained new insights into regulation of one of the body’s enzyme workhorses called calpains.

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As a congressionally mandated report reveals one of every four veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict suffers from Gulf War syndrome, statistical scientists at Southern Methodist University are analyzing brain scan images from a nationwide sample of veterans displaying symptoms.

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No less than one quarter of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands drops out of school.

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Researchers call for greater scrutiny of the relationship between medical journalists and the health care industries they cover.

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Biotech scientists increasingly are applying genomics technologies to toxicology research to better understand the effects of novel drug candidates on a variety of organ systems. They are especially interested in figuring out a new compound’s mechanism of action and eventually developing a predictive toxicology technique.

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The TECNALIA Technological Corporation is leading research in Spain on The Future Internet through projects within the 7th EU Framework Program such as m:Ciudad, MUGGES and 4WARD, with the aim of promoting a structural change in the Network of Networks and designing of a new architecture capable of providing the services of the next decades.

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Literature review documents critical importance of primary care as part of solution sought by president and Congress for health care reform.

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The loss of soil organic matter due to poor land-management practice threatens farmlands, and while the use for crop residues as feedstock for biomass ethanol and bio-based products increases, these materials no longer contribute to the health of the soil. Scientist have now developed a method of measuring soil quality to assure an adequate amount of soil organic matter, called the CQESTR model.

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A new class of compounds called phosphaplatins can effectively kill ovarian, testicular, head and neck cancer cells with potentially less toxicity than conventional drugs, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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