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Fla. Boy Doused in Chemicals in Better Condition

MIAMI -- A Florida boy who was critically injured when he was doused in chemicals, allegedly by his father, is improving in condition, a state official said Saturday. Lannis Waters, The Palm Beach Post / AP Jorge Barahona enters Palm Beach County court on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He pleaded not guilty to...

Brazilian Men Swapped at Birth Work, Live Together

SAO PAULO (July 31) -- Two years back, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didn't know of each other's existence. Then they learned they had been accidentally switched at birth more than 20 years ago. The discovery didn't bring bitterness or recrimination. Rather, it led to the creation of a bigger family. Today, the two...

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06/01/12 Chemical Substitution: On Early Earth, Iron May Have... Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ScienceDaily (May 31, 2012) On the periodic table of the elements, iron and magnesium are far apart.
05/31/12 [Report] A Papaver somniferum 10-Gene Cluster for... Source: Science Noscapine is an antitumor alkaloid from opium poppy that binds tubulin, arrests metaphase, and induces apoptosis in dividing human cells.
05/29/12 Structure of Human Protein Critical for Silencing... Source: BioSpace In a study published in the journal Cell on May 24, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists describe the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein bound to a piece of RNA that "guides" the protein's ability to silence genes.
05/29/12 Short hairpin RNAi gene silencing technology receives... Source: News-Medical.Net Australia's leading science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has been granted foundational patents in the US and Europe for short hairpin RNAi (shRNA) gene silencing technology. shRNA technology is a powerful method that is widely used as a research tool to test the function of genes and is being developed for a range of targeted therapies in humans.
05/28/12 [Review] microRNAs in cancer management Source: The Lancet Since the identification of microRNAs (miRNAs) in 1993, and the subsequent discovery of their highly conserved nature in 2000, the amount of research into their functionâparticularly how they contribute to malignancyâhas greatly increased.