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Neandertals And Humans Share Key Changes To Language Gene
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A new study published online on October 18th in Current Biology reveals that adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals. The finding reveals that the human form of the gene arose much earlier than scientists had estimated previously. It also raises the possibility that Neandertals possessed some of the prerequisi ... more Genetic Ancestral Testing Cannot Deliver On Its Promise 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007For many Americans, the potential to track one's DNA to a specific country, region or tribe with a take-home kit is highly alluring. But while the popularity of genetic ancestry testing is rising - particularly among African Americans - the technology is flawed and could spawn unwelcome societal consequences, according to researchers from several institutions nationwide, including the University ... more Mix Of Private And Public Insurance Is Most Practical Way To Achieve Universal Coverage 
New York NY (SPX) Oct 19, 2007Health insurance reform plans that build on a mix of private and public health insurance, where costs are shared among government, employers, and enrollees would have great potential to move the system to high performance and would be the most practical to implement according to a new report released today by The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Commissione ... more West Nile Virus Spread Through Nerve Cells Linked To Serious Complication 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 19, 2007Scientists believe they have found an explanation for a puzzling and serious complication of West Nile virus infection. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Utah State University showed that West Nile virus can enter a nerve cell, replicate and move on to infect other nearby nerve cells. Viruses traveling this infectious pathway can break into the central nerv ... more Effectiveness Of Most PTSD Therapies Is Uncertain 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2007Many people, including significant proportions of active duty military personnel and veterans, suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often in conjunction with other injuries or illnesses. While several drugs and psychotherapies are used to treat PTSD, many of the studies concerning their effectiveness have problems; as a result, they do not provide a clear picture of what works and ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2007China's inflation rate hovered at near 10-year highs in September as the economy edged closer to overheating, a top planning official said Thursday, signalling that more cooling measures were on the way. The consumer price index rose 6.2 percent in September and 4.1 percent for the first nine months of the year, National Development and Reform Commission vice chairman Zhu Zhixin told journal ... more ADB sounds China water pollution warning 
Manila (AFP) Oct 18, 2007Water pollution may already have reached "alarming" levels in China following its industrialisation over the last three decades, the Asian Development Bank said Thursday. The Philippines-based lender said it was giving Beijing a 500,000-dollar grant to help it design a system to manage water pollution that "may have already reached an alarming level across the country." The aid would hel ... more China summons US ambassador to protest over Dalai Lama 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2007China lodged an official protest on Thursday over the honouring of the Dalai Lama in Washington, while bluntly rejecting US President George W. Bush's advice on how to handle the Tibet issue. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi summoned the US ambassador in Beijing to receive China's angry response to the unprecedented reception by Bush and US lawmakers of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. " ... more Swiss vote goes green with climate change 
Geneva (AFP) Oct 18, 2007Landslides, floods and storms have taken their toll on Switzerland's political climate, turning the Greens into the fastest growing force in the Alpine nation ahead of Sunday's general election. "We were taken for a bunch of eccentrics just a few years back," Swiss Green Party Vice President Ueli Leuenberger told AFP. In recent months, the Green Party has leapt from just over seven perce ... more Modelling Proves No Mission Is Impossible 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 19, 2007Complex modelling work completed by CSIRO has helped identify and solve flow distribution problems at BP's Bulwer Island refinery, saving the company millions of dollars in operating cost. In what could be a world first, researchers used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to develop a complete, three-dimensional reactive model of a fluidised bed catalytic cracker regenerator to help identify eff ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2007 For an energy-starved world, the recently concluded summit in Tehran between the five Caspian littoral states is good news, as it brings the possibility of a final delineation of Caspian offshore waters closer. A final agreement between Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran on the division of Caspian waters and seabed would allow increased exploration and development, w ... more Indian PM still hopeful of nuclear deal with US 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 19, 2007Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told reporters Thursday he has not given up hope of implementing a controversial nuclear deal with the United States opposed by his party's key allies. The deal was widely viewed as dead after Singh told US President George W. Bush on Monday he was struggling to implement it, amid stiff opposition from the government's communist allies. "I have menti ... more Brazil, west Africa agree to lobby for bio-fuels 
Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 17, 2007Brazil and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) have agreed to push for the development and use of biofuels, the regional bloc said on Wednesday after a visit to Burkina Faso by President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva. Brazil, the world's leading ethanol supplier and the eight-nation bloc agreed to work towards the generation of biofuels in the region, said a statement from UEMOA ... more Biofuels use transforming commodity markets: CME chief 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2007The increasing use of biofuels to tackle global warming is having a dramatic impact on global commodity markets, the head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange said Thursday. The recent surge in crude oil and wheat prices to record highs pointed to a transformation of commodity markets, said Craig Donohue, chief executive of the world's largest financial exchange. "This is an entirely new m ... more Hawaii Reveals Steamy Martian Underground 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Is Mars dead, or is it only sleeping? The surface of Mars is completely hostile to life as we know it. Martian deserts are blasted by radiation from the sun and space. The air is so thin, cold, and dry, if liquid water were present on the surface, it would freeze and boil at the same time. But there is evidence, like vast, dried up riverbeds, that Mars once was a warm and wet world that could ha ... more
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