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- Study shows new way to fight Chagas disease
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-27-2007 04:27 AM -0800
LONDON (Reuters) - A new, low-cost screening strategy could make it easier for poor countries to target and treat Chagas disease, a deadly parasite-borne condition found mainly in Latin America,...[more]
- Regular flu vaccine may help against H5N1: study
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-26-2007 09:46 AM -0800
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ordinary seasonal flu vaccines may provide a small amount of protection against bird flu, Italian researchers reported on Wednesday.
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- Big telescope to hunt for exoplanets
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-26-2007 06:58 AM -0800
About half the size of a football field and 21 stories tall, the largest optical telescope ever constructed will use almost 1,000 mirrors to hunt for exoplanets -- and maybe even unlock the secrets...[more]
- Egyptian woman dies of bird flu
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-26-2007 06:01 AM -0800
CAIRO (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, Egypt's Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
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- German chicken tests positive for H5N1 flu strain
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-26-2007 05:08 AM -0800
BERLIN (Reuters) - A third case of a chicken testing positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the northeast German state of Brandenburg was confirmed by state authorities on Wednesday.
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- Russian cargo ship docks with space station
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-26-2007 01:01 AM -0800
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An unmanned Russian Progress supply vessel docked with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to deliver fresh food, water, fuel, equipment and holiday...[more]
- Researchers get embryonic stem cells from skin
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-23-2007 12:16 PM -0800
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third team of researchers has found a way to convert an ordinary skin cell into valued embryonic-like stem cells, with the potential to grow batches of cells that can be...[more]
- Chinese police dog may teach pandas to fight
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-22-2007 12:27 AM -0800
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Scientists in China may use a police dog to teach pandas to fight after the first artificially bred panda released into the wild was apparently killed after a battle with other...[more]
- Ariane rocket orbits satellites for Africa and N. America
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-21-2007 03:32 PM -0800
KOUROU, French Guyana (Reuters) - An Ariane-5 rocket blasted off from French Guyana on Friday putting into orbit telecommunications satellites for Africa and North America, the six Ariane mission...[more]
- Contractor hitch delays NASA Mars probe
Category: Science
Publish Date: 12-21-2007 01:00 PM -0800
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA will miss a precious opportunity to fly a probe to Mars due to a conflict of interest in picking a contractor, delaying the mission by more than two years,...[more]
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