Scientists have developed a new approach to treating such autoimmune diseases as irritable bowel syndrome using genetically-engineered regulatory T cells. This approach may be adapted to a number of autoimmune diseases, as it can be used treat the disease without knowing its exact cause. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
As DNA sequencing becomes cheaper, it will become common for people to have their complete genomes sequenced. Personal genomes will not only tell people about genetic susceptibility to cancer and heart disease, but will also tell them which vitamins and how much can improve their health. A new study shows that one enzyme can be tuned up with vitamins, suggesting that one day we all may take personalized vitamin supplements. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The death rate for golfers is 40 percent lower than for other people of the same sex, age and socioeconomic status, which correspond to a 5 year increase in life expectancy. Golfers with a low handicap are the safest. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
In the world of birds, where fancy can be as fleeting as flight, the color of the bird apparently has a profound effect on more than just its image. A new study of barn swallows reveals it also affects the bird's physiology. A manipulation of breast feather color results in higher testosterone levels for male barnswallows. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
A new PLoS Biology article investigates the evolution of genomic imprinting in a specific region of the mammalian genome. The work shows that different regions became imprinted at different times during mammalian evolution. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Chronic inflammation of the intestine or stomach can damage DNA, increasing the risk of cancer, MIT scientists have confirmed. Chronic inflammation accelerated tumor formation in mice lacking the ability to repair DNA damage. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Long-term, heavy cannabis use may be associated with structural abnormalities in areas of the brain known as the hippocampus and amygdala, according to a new article in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
The use of electrical impulses to stimulate weak or paralyzed muscles, called functional electrical stimulation, is often used to help stroke or multiple sclerosis patients to walk. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Computers of the future will change shape, respond to touch and physics, and fold into your pocket. The shape of things to come in the computer world will be anything but flat, predicts one computing professor, who is now developing prototypes of these new "non-planar" devices in his Human Media Laboratory. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
New evidence for the first time suggests that people suffering from hay fever will over time experience a progressive worsening of their nasal passage functioning, depending on how long they have the disorder. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
LiveScience.com - Another swimmer was killed by a shark off the Pacific coast of Mexico on May 24, the second tragic shark encounter in two months in that area, thus officially launching another summer of shark hysteria.
The Mexican Navy immediately took to seas to search for the sharks, perhaps with the intent to punish them or at least send a stern warning to the shark community. Shark reports are now a regular feature of the news as far away as the New England coast; the sharks are tracked as if they are as deadly as a tornado or summer storm. ... Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 2:21 pm
TORONTO (Reuters) - In the search for renewable energy, turning low-value materials like switchgrass and corn husks into ethanol to fuel cars is something of a Holy Grail.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese military experts have warned of an expanding arms race in outer space as Beijing and other rival powers seek to counter U.S. ambitions to dominate the heavens.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children in the U.S. are now getting more of their calories from fruit juice and sugar-sweetened beverages than they were 20 years ago, according to a new analysis of national data published in Pediatrics.
The UN secretary general calls for revitalising agriculture as a way of tackling the world's worsening food crisis. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 3 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
AP - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts prepared for the first spacewalk of their mission Tuesday and the installation of Japan's giant lab to the international space station.
SPACE.com - HOUSTON —
Astronauts are preparing to venture outside of the International Space Station
(ISS) later today to install its new Japanese laboratory and attempt to clean
grit out of a gummed up solar wing joint. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
Corrosion caused by sweat allows fingerprints to be detected on bullets after they have been fired Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 3 Jun 2008 | 9:43 am
Researchers have found a link between gum disease and cancer. How worried should we be, asks Lucy Atkins Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 3 Jun 2008 | 7:48 am
John Vidal on how home energy schemes that involve all kinds of different technologies could provide as much electricity as five power stations Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 3 Jun 2008 | 7:18 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a little dirt, scientists said on Sunday, a first step towards sampling the Martian soil for ice -- and the potential for life.
AP - NASA's newest spacecraft got down and dirty on Mars, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A pair of astronauts from the visiting shuttle Discovery were preparing for a spacewalk on Tuesday to begin installation of Japan's Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).
AP - More than six weeks after avalanches knocked down transmission lines and cut off Juneau's source of low-cost hydroelectric power, the city's utility company powered down the expensive diesel generators that kept the city running and that forced many residents to cut their energy usage. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 3:46 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dying the red breast feathers of barn swallows not only won the birds more mates -- it made their testosterone levels shoot up, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
Prehistoric man may have executed male rivals in order to steal their women, research by Durham scientists suggests. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 3 Jun 2008 | 12:59 am
ALLADALE (Reuters) - The howl of a wolf echoes through the glen, lumbering bears fish in the lochs and moose amble through the pine forest -- this is multi-millionaire Paul Lister's vision for his estate in the Scottish Highlands, and his grand scheme is already underway.
Leader: A kind of life came to an end last week, when Lorenzo Odone died the day after he turned 30 Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 2 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
Microgeneration report calls for official incentives as UK criticised for doing less than others Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 2 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
Clinical trials suggest patients who received the treatment lived for nearly three years after being diagnosed Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 2 Jun 2008 | 11:03 pm
Researchers also found heavy users were more likely to have low-level symptoms of psychotic disorders Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 2 Jun 2008 | 11:03 pm
Letters: Calls for Nobel prize for advancing medical knowledge without experimentation on animals Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 2 Jun 2008 | 11:02 pm
AP - The Senate began what is expected to be a weeklong, contentious debate Monday over legislation to combat global warming by mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
AP - NASA's press office "marginalized or mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004 and 2006, the agency's own internal watchdog concluded. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 10:52 pm
AP - A western Maryland dairy farmer whose investment in cloned cattle led to financial ruin has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty for underfeeding his cows, including two that starved to death. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 10:09 pm
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong have used a cocktail of three drugs which appeared to raise the survival rates of mice infected with lethal doses of the H5N1 avian flu virus.
The space shuttle Discovery takes a $1bn laboratory - and a toilet pump - to the International Space Station. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 2 Jun 2008 | 8:32 pm
AP - A public relations coordinator for a Texas museum recently spotted the fossilized bones of a 75-million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur while taking a tour of the area where a mummified duckbill was found eight years ago. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 8:25 pm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 2007 underground collapse of a Utah coal mine, which resulted in the deaths of six miners and three rescuers, covered 50 acres, or the area of 40 American football fields, according to a report released on Monday by seismologists.
Satellite images reveal the "rapid deforestation" of Papua New Guinea's rainforests over the past 30 years. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 2 Jun 2008 | 5:32 pm
Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet: a distant world just three times the size of our own. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 2 Jun 2008 | 4:47 pm
Icelandic and Norwegian firms export whalemeat to Japan, which environmentalists say undermines global treaties. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 2 Jun 2008 | 3:22 pm
Buildings equipped with solar, wind and other micro power equipment could generate as much electricity in a year as five nuclear power stations, a UK government-backed industry report has shown Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 2 Jun 2008 | 2:37 pm
Britain's coastal waters receive a 96.5% rating for cleanliness in a European Union report. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 2 Jun 2008 | 2:09 pm
Nasa's Mars lander Phoenix may be resting on a large patch of ice, scientists believe. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:17 pm
AP - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts prepared for the first spacewalk of their mission Tuesday and the installation of Japan's giant lab to the international space station.
AP - NASA's newest spacecraft got down and dirty on Mars, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday.
AP - The Senate began what is expected to be a weeklong, contentious debate Monday over legislation to combat global warming by mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.