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A tumor-suppressing gene is a key to understanding, and perhaps killing, dormant ovarian cancer cells that persist after initial treatment only to reawaken later, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the December Journal of Clinical Investigation. They found that expression of ARHI turns on autophagy, or self-eating, in ovarian cancer cells, which promotes their survival in a dormant state.

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An international team of scientists has discovered a new syndrome associated with severe congenital neutropenia, a rare disorder in which children lack sufficient infection-fighting white cells, and identified the genetic cause of the syndrome. The findings are published in the Jan. 1, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade.

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This release spotlights research papers on these topics: “Surprise drop in carbon dioxide absorbed by East/Japan Sea,”"Big raindrops favor tornado formation,”"Sand dunes clocked from space,”"Odd-looking Martian craters indicate hidden ice,”"Explaining scope of Earth’s tropical air flows,”"Cause of glacial earthquakes in Greenland clarified,”"Sea rise on continental shelves affected global carbon cycle,”"Martian avalanches analyzed,”"Influence in West Africa: biomass burning and mineral dust,”"Dust’s conflicting roles in West African rainfall.”

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In a first of its kind study, a first-degree family history of prostate cancer has no impact on the treatment outcomes of prostate cancer patients treated with brachytherapy, also called seed implants, and patients with this type of family history have clinical and pathologic characteristics similar to men with no family history at all, according to a Jan. 1 study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

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In a study to determine the diagnostic value of molecular imaging in nodal staging of patients with thyroid cancer, researchers were able for the first time to accurately distinguish between cancerous cells in regional lymph nodes and normal residual thyroid tissue directly after surgery.

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Telegraph takes lead from Australian. The Australian has fallen well behind in the race for the 2009 ward for most consistently wrong media outlet. They’ve published a piece by Mike Steketee that debunks common denialist arguments. …

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In an article reviewing the success of the Euro, the WSJ attributes at least some of the finiancial instability of recent months to currency volatility between the US and Europe….

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