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A new study from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has revealed the consequences of heavy and binge drinking on pregnancy even after these drinking patterns have stopped.

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Giving pregnant mothers magnesium sulphate when they are at risk of very preterm birth can help protect their babies from cerebral palsy, according to an international review of research involving the University of Adelaide, Australia.

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Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have identified a potential new target in the war on HIV/AIDS. A variant of a protein involved in HIV pathogenesis can suppress production of an HIV protein, known as Nef. Nef has never been a target for drug treatment in HIV patients.

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The global trade in frog legs for human consumption is threatening their extinction, according to a new study by an international team including University of Adelaide researchers.

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Farmers in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina join forces to suppress one of the world’s most destructive farm pests, the Mediterranean fruit fly, by using the Sterile Insect Technique.

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Native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs, which can increase the effectiveness of this behavior. This finding provides biologists with an example of evolution in action, and provides wildlife managers with knowledge that they can use to develop plans for managing invasive species.

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A new species of catfish from tropical South America combines traits typically found in two related but different catfish families. The new species, Lithogenes wahari, not only has the bony armor of the Loricariidae but has adaptations that allow it to climb like the Astroblepidae. Researchers think that the common ancestor to both families probably combined these traits as well.

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An international team of researchers, including Antoni Rosell, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology and professor of the department of geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, have created MARGO (Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface), a new quantitative tool which reconstructs the sea surface temperature during the Last Glacial Maximum. MARGO will serve to represent more exact models of the past and predict the climate’s evolution in the future.

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Beware of unexplained and sudden weight loss, warns a Saint Louis University physician. Cachexia can signal a serious underlying sickness.

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The fossil of a lizard-like New Zealand reptile has been identified by a team of scientists from UCL (University College London), University of Adelaide, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The fossil, dating back 18 million years, has triggered fresh arguments over whether the continent was fully submerged some 25 million years ago.

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