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The Hindustan Times – Patna Edition
 How to turn bacteria against themselves
 02/09/2011 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have explained a mechanism by which bacteria protect themselves from their own toxins. Bacteria often attack with toxins designed to hijack or even kill host cells. But they also have ways to […]

BBC News | Health (UK) Chromosome fault linked to sleepwalking 2/8/2011 A genetic link to sleepwalking has been identified by researchers. They studied four generations of a family of sleepwalkers and concluded that the condition is associated with a fault in a section of chromosome 20, BBC News reported. Just one copy of the defective […]

UPI
 Bills to restrict abortion to get hearings
 02/07/2011 Expanded restrictions on federal funding of abortion get separate committee hearings this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, but observers don’t foresee the measures making it through the Senate. “They can’t expect this legislation to go beyond the House of Representatives,” said Steve Smith, a […]

The Pitch
 Carmon Colangelo to speak at Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City 02/04/2011 Carmon Colangelo, a pioneering printmaker whose work combines surrealism and abstraction with the exploration of art history, science and technology, will speak as part of the Current Perspectives Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Feb 24 in the Epperson Auditorium in Kansas City. Colangelo […]

CBS interactive / cnet UK Can 3D movies and games damage your eyes, or those of your children? 2/3/2011 So are all we all risking blindness by gawping at 3D displays and movies through those dangerously uncool glasses? Dr. Lawrence Tychsen, professor of pediatrics and ophthalmology at Washington University in St Louis, has been making […]

STLtoday.com
 Two Washington U students are safely out of Egypt 02/02/2011 As political unrest erupted in Egypt last week, Washington University student Allegra Skurka found herself holed up in an apartment in Cairo with 20 other college students, all there for a study-abroad program. Skurka, 20, was one of two Washington University students who were […]

Associated Press
 Bristol Palin won’t appear on Mo. abstinence panel
 01/28/2011 Washington University in St. Louis says Bristol Palin won’t be speaking there next month after all. The decision comes after some students expressed outrage over Palin being paid with student-generated funds. The daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had been invited […]

Scientific American Orangutans join the genome gang 01/27/2011 Orangutans can now be added to the list of species that have had their genomes sequenced, offering conservationists a wealth of data in their efforts to save the endangered great ape. “We’ve developed a resource that could allow conservationists to prioritize populations for saving based on genetic […]

Universe Today
 7 years of opportunity on Mars and a science bonanza
 01/25/2011 Jan. 24, 2011 marks the 7th anniversary of the safe landing of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover (MER). Opportunity will soon celebrate another remarkable milestone — 2500 Sols, or Martian days, roving the red planet. Together with her twin sister Spirit, the […]

USA Today
 HCG weight-loss products are fraudulent, FDA says
 01/23/2011 A popular type of weight-loss product, heavily promoted on the Internet, is fraudulent and illegal, Food and Drug Administration officials say. HCG weight-loss products claim to contain human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone made by the placenta during pregnancy. Samuel Klein of Washington University School of […]