Science Headlines for July 19, 2008

Bullying And Being Bullied Linked To Suicide In Children, Review Of Studies Suggests

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied and suicide in children, according to a new review of studies from 13 countries published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am

Tips On How To Build A Better Home For Biological Parts

Researchers have compiled a series of guidelines that should help researchers in their efforts to design, develop and manage next-generation databases of biological parts.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am

Dust Storms In Sahara Desert Sustain Life In Atlantic Ocean

Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. Scientists mapped the distribution of nutrients including phosphorous and nitrogen and investigated how organisms such as phytoplankton are sustained in areas with low nutrient levels. They found that plants are able to grow in these regions because they are able to take advantage of iron minerals in Saharan dust storms.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am

Alzheimer's Early Detection: Biomarkers Identify Early Onset Of Disease, Before Symptoms Appear

Researchers have confirmed that in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's, levels of specific proteins in the blood and spinal fluid can be used to track the progression of AD, long before symptoms appear. The hope is that, one day, screening for such biomarkers could take their place beside such routine tests as colonoscopies and mammograms as another common tool of preventive medicine.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am

Caesarean Section: No Consensus On Best Technique

Despite the routine delivery of babies by caesarean section, there is no consensus among medical practitioners on which is the best operating method to use. In a systematic review published in the Cochrane Library, researchers call for further studies to establish the safest method for both mother and infant.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am

Cancer Researchers Call For Ethnicity To Be Taken Into Account

Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in The Lancet. Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their genetic makeup.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am

HIV Conquers Immune System Faster Than Previously Realized

New research into the earliest events occurring immediately upon infection with HIV-I shows that the virus deals a stunning blow to the immune system earlier than was previously understood. This suggests the window of opportunity for successful intervention may be only a matter of days -- not weeks -- after transmission, as researchers had previously believed.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Low-sodium Advice For Asthmatics Should Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt

Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact on asthma control, according to new research. Contrary to past studies -- which have suggested a link between low-sodium diets and improved asthma control -- a new study found no evidence that cutting back on salt helps patients with their symptoms.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Distribution Of Creatures Great And Small Can Be Predicted Mathematically

In studying how animals change size as they evolve, biologists have unearthed several interesting patterns. For instance, most species are small, but the largest members of a taxonomic group -- such as the great white shark, the Komodo dragon, or the African elephant -- are often thousands or millions of times bigger than the typical species. Now for the first time researchers explain these patterns within an elegant statistical framework.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Improved Culture System For Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Researchers have developed the first tissue culture of normal, human liver cells that can model infection with the hepatitis C virus and provide a realistic environment to evaluate possible treatments. The novel cell line will allow pharmaceutical companies to effectively test new drug candidates or possible vaccines for the HCV infection, which afflicts about 170 million people worldwide.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Barcelona buzz

Gossip girl Sue Nelson goes to the Euroscience festival
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 19 Jul 2008 | 2:27 pm

Scholars Will Reassemble Ancient Egyptian Boat

Scholars will reassemble an ancient Egyptian boat.
Source: Livescience.com | 19 Jul 2008 | 12:08 pm

Skeleton stories

London's dead tell tales from beyond the grave
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 19 Jul 2008 | 11:13 am

Tropical storms Fausto, Bertha become hurricanes (AP)

AP - Tropical Storm Fausto became a hurricane Friday far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while Bertha strengthened back into a hurricane in the open Atlantic.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 5:43 am

Judge restores protection for Rockies wolves (AP)

AP - A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 4:36 am

Judge: Water delivery system harms Calif. salmon (AP)

AP - A federal judge ruled Friday that California's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them millions in lost crops.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 4:12 am

Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil (AP)

AP - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 19 Jul 2008 | 1:06 am

Army shoots live pigs for medical drill (AP)

AP - The Army says it's critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 18 Jul 2008 | 11:29 pm

Pump up the volume: pubs profit from louder music

A study by French scientists suggests that punters drink faster and consume more when the volume goes up
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 18 Jul 2008 | 11:08 pm

Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film

Watchdog finds documentary was unfair to scientists but did not mislead viewers
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 18 Jul 2008 | 11:06 pm

Dead Penguins Wash Ashore by the Hundreds

Hundreds of penguins are found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 18 Jul 2008 | 11:05 pm

Bad science: Still no cure for cancer hysteria

Ben Goldacre: The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there's no point in documenting it any longer
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 18 Jul 2008 | 11:03 pm

College accuses fusion scientist of misconduct

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A scientist who claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion on a table top committed research misconduct, Purdue University said on Friday.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 18 Jul 2008 | 10:11 pm

Loud bar music makes customers drink more: study

LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 18 Jul 2008 | 9:47 pm

Video: Cell Phones and Microscopes Get Together

50 years of DEET has left a bad taste. Now some promising replacements are emerging.
Source: Livescience.com | 18 Jul 2008 | 9:15 pm

Human Speech Traced to Talking Fish (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - From Don Knotts' portrayle of "Mr. Limpet" to the children's favorite "Nemo" and the tuna-pitching character in the "Sorry, Charlie" commercials, we all have seen fish that can talk. But that's just fiction, right?
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 18 Jul 2008 | 9:03 pm

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