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Whole-genome study at Johns Hopkins reveals a new gene associated with abnormal heart rhythm

Baltimore, MD - Using a new genomic strategy that has the power to survey the entire human genome and identify genes with common variants that contribute to complex diseases, researchers at Johns Hopkins, together with scientists from Munich, Germany, and the Framingham Heart Study, U.S.A., have identified a gene that may predispose some people to abnormal heart rhythms that lead to sudden cardiac death, a condition affecting more than 300 thousand Americans each year.

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Greenpeace stops huge consignment of Amazon soya entering Europe

Amsterdam - Sixty Greenpeace activists (1) today prevented commodities giant Cargill from unloading a shipment of Amazon soya in Amsterdam port, to protest against the destruction of huge tracts of the Amazon rainforest to grow soya to feed farm animals in Europe.

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Apple Offers Free Computer Take-Back Program

Cupertino, CA - Apple today announced an expansion of its successful recycling program, offering free computer take-back and recycling with the purchase of a new Macintoshή system beginning in June.

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Study finds novel vaccine curbs brain tumor growth, increases survival

San Francisco, CA - A novel vaccine has significantly increased life expectancy in patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most dangerous type of brain tumor, a researcher from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is reporting at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS).

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Pittsburgh Study Offers New Hope For People Trying To Quit Smoking

Pittsburgh, PA - In the first study of its kind, University of Pittsburgh psychologist and professor Saul Shiffman has discovered that people who are trying to quit smoking by wearing the nicotine patch are less likely to spiral into a total relapse if they keep wearing the patch, even if they've "cheated" and smoked a cigarette.

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Green idealists valuable innovators?

Brighton, UK - New research shows how radical activists have triggered innovations that are helping move the UK in a more sustainable direction.

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New Truck Stop Electrification Station Maps Help Truckers Reduce Idling

Golden, CO - A new internet-based mapping program is helping truckers find truck stops with idle reduction facilities-on-site systems that can substantially cut fuel use while reducing air emissions.

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NASA Data Combined To Improve Hurricane Landfall Forecasts

Greenbelt MD - Data gathered from last year's NASA hurricane research mission and a NASA satellite have improved tropical storm landfall and storm strength forecasts in computer models.

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University Of Utah To Help Build Realistic Bionic Arm

Utah - University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthetic arm that would work, feel and look like a real arm.

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The world’s deepest dinosaur finding - 2256 metres below the seabed

Norway - While most nations excavate their skeletons using a toothbrush, the Norwegians found one using a drill.

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