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A gene involved in neurodegenerative disease plays an important role in the function of the circadian clock, scientists show. In a study of the common fruit fly, the researchers found the gene, called Ataxin-2, keeps the clock responsible for sleeping and waking on a 24-hour rhythm. Without the gene, the rhythm of the fruit fly's sleep-wake cycle is disturbed, making waking up on a regular...
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Individuals suffering from Crohn's disease could gain benefit from vitamin D supplements, says research. These symptoms can remain even when patients are in remission. A randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) found for the first time that vitamin D supplementation corresponded to significant relief of these symptoms. "Our...
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reflect current cyclists' preferences and safety data, bicycle engineering guidelines often used by state regulators to design bicycle facilities need to be overhauled. This is according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. They say that U.S. guidelines should be expanded to offer cyclists more riding options and call for endorsing cycle tracks - physically...
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Antonio Paolucci, the Vatican museum director, criticised contemporary-style churches for lacking "form" and harked back to the Baroque era when he said that shrines embodied religious faith. Award-winning architect Richard Meier's Church of God the Merciful Father in Rome "could just as well be a museum in Texas or an auditorium in Melbourne", he wrote in the Vatican's official Osservatore Romano...
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Slovakia, the first Central European country to host one of the world's top five wine competitions, France burnished its winemaking credentials by winning the prestigious Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB) at the international wine contest. The host country's little-known wines took sixth place, continuing a streak of success in some of the world's most prestigious competitions. Slovakia...
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According to a survey conducted by YouGov, only one in 10 Americans are keen in wearing Google Glass, as some find it 'socially awkward' and others find it is 'too irritating to wear'. The report, entitled the 'Google Glass Adoption Forecast' commissioned by BiTE Interactive, found that even though Google Glass was competitively priced, 38 percent of respondents still wouldn't wear them, the...
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Research shows that the drug previously used to treat schizophrenia is a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a huge problem all over the world: For example, 25 - 50 per cent of the inhabitants in southern Europe are resistant to istaphylococci/i. In the Scandinavian countries it is less than 5 per cent, but also here the risk of resistance...
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leading auction houses in New York combined for the art world's richest sales week ever, with works getting auctioned for more than a billion dollars. Christie's reaped in more than (Dollar) 638 million dollars at its blockbuster contemporary art auction on Wednesday. Its staggering haul included a record (Dollar) 58.4 million for a Jackson Pollock drip painting, which shattered all previous...
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media reported that four US students have developed shoes that extract energy with every step to power portable electronics and, perhaps someday, life-preserving medical devices. Four mechanical engineering students at Rice University in Houston, for a project required for graduation, created PediPower shoes, which deliver 400 milliwatts of energy through wires that connect the shoes to a be...
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suggested that patients having strokes due to blood clots fare better in hospitals participating in the Get With The Guidelines (Regd) -Stroke program."We found that stroke patients treated in Get With The Guidelines hospitals were less likely to die or end up back in the hospital than those treated at other closely-matched hospitals not in the program," said Sarah Song, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author...
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