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1. Concealed Glaciers Discovered On Mars At Mid-latitudes
   Vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris persist today at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on Mars, says new research using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The discovery is an encouraging sign for scientists s...
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2. Brain Reorganizes To Adjust For Loss Of Vision
   A new study shows that when patients with macular degeneration focus on using another part of their retina to compensate for their loss of central vision, their brain seems to compensate by reorganizing its neural connections. Age--related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in th...
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3. Shellfish Inspire New Adhesives
   Adhesive shellfish proteins bind regardless of how many binding elements they contain. This has potential for the development of new kinds of binding agents.
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4. Why Only Some Former Smokers Develop Lung Cancer
   Canadian researchers are trying to answer why some smokers develop lung cancer while others remain disease free, despite similar lifestyle changes.
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5. Extreme Makeover: Photos Realistically Embedded Within Videos
   Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it. It wo...
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6. Brain Compound 'Throws Gasoline Onto The Fire' Of Schizophrenia
   New research has traced elevated levels of a specific compound in the brain to problem-solving deficits in patients with schizophrenia. The finding suggests that drugs used to suppress the compound, called kynurenic acid, might be an important supplement to antipsychotic medicines, as these adjuncts...
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7. Pluripotent Stem Cells Shown To Generate New Retinal Cells Necessary For Vision, Study Finds
   Pluripotent stem cells -- those, like embryonic stem cells, that give rise to almost every type of cell in the body -- can be converted into the different classes of retinal cells necessary for vision, according to a new study.
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8. '4-D' Microscope Revolutionizes The Way We Look At Nano World
   More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world around us. A breakthrough technology based on new concepts has now accomplished a similar feat...
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9. Misreading Of Damaged DNA May Spur Tumor Formation
   Cells can turn on tumor-promoting growth circuits by falsely reporting critical genetic information during the process of transcription: making RNA from DNA. Damage to the DNA making up a gene can lead to a misreading of the gene as it is made into RNA, a process called transcriptional mutagenesis. ...
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10. Birds Singing In Slow Motion Help Reveal Brain Locations Responsible For Timing
    As anyone who watched the Olympics can appreciate, timing matters when it comes to complex sequential actions. It can make a difference between a perfect handspring and a fall, for instance. But what controls that timing? Scientists are closing in on the brain regions responsible, thanks to some tec...
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11. Faster Test For Food Protein That Triggers Celiac Disease
    Researchers are reporting development of a faster test for identifying the food protein that triggers celiac disease, a difficult-to-diagnose digestive disease involving the inability to digest protein called gluten that occurs in wheat, oats, rye, and barley. The finding could help millions of peop...
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST