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In this week’s JBC, researchers have found a potential new antibiotic agent in the tiny freshwater animal Hydra.

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Some researchers have blasted biofuels’ potential to increase greenhouse gas emissions, calling into question the environmental benefits of making fuel from plant material. But a new analysis by Michigan State University scientists says these dire predictions are based on a set of assumptions that may not be correct.

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Bacteria hunker down and survive antibiotic attack when a protein flips a chemical switch that throws them into a dormant state until treatment abates, researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Jan. 16 edition of Science.

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The public ranks action on health care highly as part of efforts to stem the impact of the economic recession and also views reforming health care as one of the top priorities for President-elect Obama and Congress, according to a new national survey.

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Jose Luis Lavin Trueba, a graduate in biology and biochemistry from the University of Salamanca, Spain, and currently collaborator in the Genetic and Microbiology Research Group at the Public University of Navarre, has enhanced the use of bioinformatic tools for the identification and annotation of certain fungal and bacterial genes.

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In spite of their universal health care system which facilitates access to free dementia care, older adults in the United Kingdom are less willing to undergo dementia screening than their counterparts in the US because the Britons perceive greater societal stigma from diagnosis of the disease than do Americans according to researches from Indiana University and the Universities of Kent and London.

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A new study published online today finds that the more alcoholic beverages cost, the less likely people are to drink.

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The breast cancer risk of women who are regularly physically active in the postmenopausal phase is reduced by about one third compared to relatively inactive women. This is the result of a study of the German Cancer Research Center and the University Hospitals of Hamburg-Eppendorf.

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Researchers have unraveled crucial details of how aging causes broken bones to heal slowly, or not at all, according to study results published today in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. The research team also successfully conducted preclinical tests on a potential new class of treatments designed to “rescue” healing capability lost to aging.

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The DREAM-gene which is crucial in regulating pain perception seems to also influence learning and memory. This is the result of studies carried out by researchers in Seville, Spain, and Vienna, Austria. The new findings could help explain the mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and yield a potential new therapeutic target.

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