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Public Release: 2-Aug-2013

Psychology of Women Quarterly
Why is orange the new black for female victims of trauma?
How do pathways to jail vary for females who are victims of specific types of trauma? New research published in Psychology of Women Quarterly, a SAGE journal, pinpoints the types of trauma such as caregiver violence, witnessing violence, and intimate partner violence, that lead to specific types of offending later in life and offers explanations based on real experiences.

Public Release: 2-Aug-2013

Nature Communications
Researchers create 'soft robotic' devices using water-based gels
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating devices out of a water-based hydrogel material that can be patterned, folded and used to manipulate objects. The technique holds promise for use in "soft robotics" and biomedical applications.

National Science Foundation

Public Release: 2-Aug-2013

Nature Communications
New drugs to find the right target to fight Alzheimer's disease
The future is looking good for drugs designed to combat Alzheimer's disease. EPFL scientists have unveiled how two classes of drug compounds currently in clinical trials work to fight the disease. Their research suggests that these compounds target the disease-causing peptides with high precision and with minimal side-effects. The encouraging conclusions of their research have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

Public Release: 2-Aug-2013

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Revised location of 1906 rupture of San Andreas Fault in Portola Valley
New evidence suggests the 1906 earthquake ruptured the San Andreas Fault in a single trace through Portola Village, current day Town of Portola Valley, and indicates a revised location for the fault trace.

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Cell
How 'junk DNA' can control cell development
Researchers from the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at Sydney's Centenary Institute have confirmed that, far from being "junk," the 97 percent of human DNA that does not encode instructions for making proteins can play a significant role in controlling cell development. And in doing so, the researchers have unravelled a previously unknown mechanism for regulating the activity of genes, increasing our understanding of the way cells develop and opening the way to new possibilities for therapy.

Centenary Institute

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Geophysical Research Letters
Climate science boost with tropical aerosols profile
The seasonal influence of aerosols on Australia's tropical climate can now be included in climate models following completion of the first long-term study of fine smoke particles generated by burning of the savanna open woodland and grassland.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Novel 3-D simulation technology helps surgical residents train more effectively
A novel interactive 3-dimensional simulation platform offers surgical residents a unique opportunity to hone their diagnostic and patient management skills, and then have those skills accurately evaluated according to a new study appearing in the Aug. issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
NASA looks at Tropical Storm Jebi in South China Sea
Tropical Storm Jebi developed on July 31 and NASA satellite data on Aug. 1 shows the storm filling up at least half of the South China Sea.

NASA

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
NASA sees Hurricane Gil being chased by developing storm
On July 31, NASA's TRMM satellite saw Tropical Storm Gil intensifying and the storm became a hurricane. NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured views of Gil on Aug. 1 as it was being chased by another developing tropical system.

NASA

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
NASA seeing which way the wind blows
The autonomous and compact High-altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler, or HIWRAP, a dual-frequency conical-scanning Doppler radar, will hang under NASA's aircraft's belly as it flies above hurricanes to measure wind and rain and to test a new method for retrieving wind data.

NASA

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Sounding rocket to study active regions on the sun
At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., a sounding rocket is being readied for flight. Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15-minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

NASA

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
ASTRO applauds new GAO report on physician self-referral abuse
ASTRO Chairman Michael L. Steinberg, M.D., FASTRO, called attention to the Government Accountability Office's striking report released today, "Medicare: Higher Use of Costly Prostate Cancer Treatment by Providers Who Self-Refer Warrants Scrutiny," that details clear mistreatment of patients who trusted their physicians to care for their prostate cancer.

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Skeletal Muscle
Burnt sugar derivative reduces muscle wasting in fly and mouse muscular dystrophy
A trace substance in caramelized sugar, when purified and given in appropriate doses, improves muscle regeneration in an insect and mammal model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The substance, THI, protects the body's levels of a cell signal important in cell differentiation, proliferation, and migration. Fruit flies and mice with the muscular dystrophy gene both showed improvements in movement, and other reductions of symptoms.

National Institutes of Health, Duchenne Alliance, RaceMD, Ryan's Quest

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

PLOS Genetics
Genetics: More than merely a mutated gene
If two women have the same genetic mutation that puts them at higher-than-average risk for a disease such as breast cancer, why does only one develop the disease?

National Science Foundation

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Neuron
Speedier scans reveal new distinctions in resting and active brain
A boost in the speed of brain scans is unveiling new insights into how brain regions work with each other in cooperative groups called networks.

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Cell Reports
Novel drug shuts down master protein key to lymphoma
Researchers have discovered how an experimental drug is capable of completely eradicating human lymphoma in mice after just five doses. The study, led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, sets the stage for testing the drug in clinical trials of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the most common subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, itself the seventh most frequently diagnosed cancer in the US.

NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Chemotherapy Foundation

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Las Cumbres Observatory 'Sinistro' astronomy imager captures first light
The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope has captured its first on-sky images with the production Sinistro CCD camera.

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Cancer Cell
Blocking key enzyme in cancer cells could lead to new therapy
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have identified a characteristic unique to cancer cells in an animal model of cancer -- and they believe it could be exploited as a target to develop new treatment strategies.

US Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health, UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, Chicago Biomedical Consortium, The Searle Funds

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
August 2013 story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The following are story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for August 2013.

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Neuron
Re-learning how to see
A discovery by a University of Maryland-led research team offers hope for treating "lazy eye" and other serious visual problems that are usually permanent unless they are corrected in early childhood.

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Pediatrics In Review
Study finds physicians need to better recognize use of herbal supplements while breastfeeding
In an article published in this month's issue of Pediatrics In Review, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine stress the importance of physicians recognizing that many mothers use herbal supplements while breastfeeding in order to make accurate health assessments for both mother and child.

NIH/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Science
Scientists discover new type of protein modification, may play role in cancer and diabetes
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have discovered a new type of chemical modification that affects numerous proteins within mammalian cells. The modification appears to work as a regulator of important cellular processes including the metabolism of glucose. Further study of this modification could provide insights into the causes of diabetes, cancer and other disorders.

National Institutes of Health, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Nature Climate Change
UCI-led team develops more accurate model of climate change's effect on soil
Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon.

National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Nature
Advance in regenerative medicine could make reprogrammed cells safer while improving their function
The enormous promise of regenerative medicine is matched by equally enormous challenges. But a new finding by a team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College has the potential to improve both the safety and performance of reprogrammed cells.

National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013

Journal of Economic Psychology
Why shopaholics overspend? Poor credit management, buying to boost mood, study says
Why do shopping addicts keep spending even in the face of harmful financial, emotional and social consequences? A new study suggests poor credit management and a belief that new purchases will create a happier life fuel compulsive buying.


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