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As fuel prices soar, food prices are beginning to creep up to crisis levels most recently seen in 2007. “Coupled with the financial crisis, high food prices can take a significant toll on nutrition, especially in developing countries,” says Lora Iannotti, PhD, a public health expert and professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “The same consequences can be true for wealthier countries, as households opt for less expensive, poor quality foods. Hidden hunger is a problem across the globe.”

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An innovative public-private collaboration between one of the world’s top digital effects and computer animation companies, the Digital Domain Media Group, and one of the nation’s finest film schools, Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, announced the development of a new digital media enterprise to be located in West Palm Beach, Fla.

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A. Alfred Taubman has become U-M’s largest individual donor, with total giving of more than $142 million. His latest gift of $56 million to the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, announced today before the University’s Board of Regents, will bring his support of innovative medical science at the University of Michigan to a total of $100 million.

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Teams of students from seven institutions of higher learning in Virginia and Maryland will play the University of Virginia Bay Game on Earth Day, April 22.

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To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.

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U-M doctors stress a balanced approach, but note older therapies can offset risks, costs of ‘biologics’.

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Two new studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlight the power of sequencing cancer patients’ genomes as a diagnostic tool, helping doctors decide the best course of treatment and researchers identify new cancer susceptibility mutations that can be passed from parent to child.

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The recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a brain aneurysm device has opened the door for neurosurgeons at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience (JHN) to offer advanced treatment to patients suffering from large or giant aneurysms who otherwise have limited, effective options.

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Spring is in bloom at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Children's Art Project (CAP). Its new product collection is filled with bright, creative and seasonal designs developed by pediatric and adolescent cancer patients.

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With over a dozen states considering banning Sharia (Islamic law) in their courts, laws governing other countries are facing increased scrutiny. “This is emblematic of U.S. fears about international law,” says Leila Nadya Sadat, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. “International law has become a ‘whipping boy’ for the ills that are being felt because of globalization.” Sadat say that this is unfortunate because the United States proudly led the trial of the major German leaders at the end of World War II at Nuremberg.

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A South Dakota State University researcher is using museum collections to assemble a metrics database on perhaps 60,000 duck eggs representing at least 40 species and subspecies of ducks found in North America. What she learns could ultimately add new knowledge about how waterfowl respond to climate cycles and long-term climate change.

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University of Maryland researchers found that Parkinson's patients who did low intensity training on a treadmill for a longer duration improved their walking more than patients who walked at a higher-intensity for a shorter time.

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A scientist at Georgia Tech has created Trimensional, the first app that allows users with an iPhone 4, iPad 2 or recent iPod Touch to take 3-D scans of faces or other objects. Now in the latest update, users can e-mail animated videos and for a few dollars more, can export their creation to CAD programs or 3-D applications.

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Examining how fruit flies genes respond to exercise may hold clues to help people stay healthier and more active into their advanced years. But first scientists had to figure out how to get a fly to exercise.

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Planning to negotiate a raise? Try not to discuss it with the boss in his or her office, suggests a new study by an organizational behavior expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a simplified, cheaper, all-purpose method they say can be used by scientists around the globe to more safely turn blood cells into heart cells. The method is virus-free and produces heart cells that beat with nearly 100 percent efficiency, they claim.

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For the first time in millions of years, king crabs are invading Antarctica which could mean organisms with disease-fighting compounds may be wiped out.

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The University of Maryland Solar Decathlon Team has unveiled its entry in the U.S. Department of Energy competition - a high-tech structure called WaterShed, because it integrates a unique array of sustainable features designed to protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The student-faculty team is one of only 20 international finalists.

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An alternative and harmful form of tobacco use, known as the hookah or water pipe, may be spreading among youth in the United States according to researchers from the University of California, San Diego’s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and San Diego State University. This trend is emerging even as cigarette smoking among high school students is on the decline nationally.

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Research by Tufts biologists shows that wingless "stay-at-home" female fireflies get less support from their mates than females able to fly. Some male fireflies donate a "nuptial gift" to mates--sperm wrapped in a nutritious high-protein package. When a species' females lose the ability to fly, the males evolve to transfer only sperm, with no food gift.

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Music communicates a lot regarding how we remember a person, place, thing or idea. Music about Abraham Lincoln is no different. An ongoing UC research project is examining the American experience of Abraham Lincoln through the music written about him from 1865 to 2009.

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Thanks to a $500,000 grant, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has brought in more than 50 classes--both art-related and not--to use the museum for course projects, including students in a Molecular and Atomic Structure course who used infrared cameras to examine the underlayers of paintings.

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Getting older doesn’t mean giving up muscle strength. Not only can adults fight the battle of strength and muscle loss that comes with age, but the Golden Years can be a time to get stronger, say experts at the University of Michigan Health System.

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute president: Trends are encouraging, but more improvements are needed.

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UAB students learn lessons of a pilgrim.

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UAB professor uses evolution talks to teach civil discourse.

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For obese seniors, dieting and exercise together are more effective at improving physical performance and reducing frailty than either alone. Although weight loss alone and exercise alone improve physical function, neither is as effective as diet and exercise together, which improved physical performance in seniors by 21 percent.

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A nanotechnology-based biosensor being developed by Kansas State University researchers may allow early detection of both cancer cells and pathogens, leading to increased food safety and reduced health risks.

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A new study showed that the drug AT-406 effectively targets proteins that block normal cell death from occurring. Blocking these proteins caused tumor cells to die, while not harming normal cells. The researchers believe the drug has potential to treat multiple types of cancer.

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A new commemorative bottle from Maker's Mark will honor 75 years of horse racing at Keeneland, while raising money for arts education outreach in Kentucky.

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Benjamin Johnson, a fourth-year student at the UCSD School of Medicine is determined to make medical imaging technology widely available in low-income countries. His journey started in Uganda, where currently just 35 local radiologists serve the needs of 30 million people.

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In the first time in more than a decade, the U-S Food and Drug administration gave the okay to a new cancer drug that is giving hope to patients with advanced melanoma. The disease is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Until now, there were few treatment options for patients once melanoma spread to other areas of the body.

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Geometry is the force that shapes both the sound of music and the novel research of Florida State University composer-theorist Clifton Callender, whose work explores and maps the mathematics of musical harmony.

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Students from the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and community members discuss the elements of an American Indian Pow Wow and its importance. The 21st annual Pow Wow at Washington University will be held Saturday, April 9, in the Field House.

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Images and video will create a virtual environment that substitutes for onstage set design.

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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has been awarded a grant to study whether xerostomia, a debilitating side effect caused by head and neck cancer radiation treatment, can be prevented when acupuncture is part of a patient's treatment regimen.

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in a commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association March 23, two U-M physicians call for changes throughout the research process to minimize fraud, deception.

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During a radical surgery to treat a rare bone cancer, surgeons at UC San Diego Health System and Moores Cancer Center removed 50 percent of a patient’s pelvis. Instead of amputating the connected leg, the surgical team, comprised of orthopaedic, vascular and urologic experts, saved the entire limb. The patient was able to walk with assistance five weeks after surgery.

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Forty-three percent of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University’s class of 2011 will be going into primary care – 4 percent higher than the national average of nearly 39 percent. Fourth-year medical students at Einstein – and at medical schools around the country – learned today where and in what specialty they will spend their three to seven years of residency training. The much-anticipated annual event, known as Match Day, has been a rite of passage for medical students for nearly six decades, since the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) was established in 1952. This year’s Match, with 16,559 U.S. medical school seniors applying, represents the largest Match to date.

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A team of Kansas State University engineers is researching ways to use Kansas wind and other distributed energy sources to avoid cascading failures and prevent major power outages.

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Women have always been willing to do what it takes to look good. Now, the latest quantitative research from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, shows that more MEN are now going under the knife. The new statistics, which include plastic surgery trends in various demographics, will be released on Monday, March 21, 2011 by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Overall cosmetic plastic surgery procedures in men were up 2 percent in 2010 compared to 2009. However, the new stats show that many male surgical procedures increased significantly. Facelifts for men rose 14 percent in 2010 while male liposuction increased 7 percent.

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Nicholas Crossland, Kansas State University second-year student in veterinary medicine and a graduate student in biomedical sciences from Overland Park, recently spent two days touring Plum Island Animal Disease Center to look at performing a virology graduate project there. The trip was part of a dual-degree program with K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine and helped Crossland explore research connections between the university, Plum Island and the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.

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Vikas Berry, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Kansas State University, and his research team are wrapping bacteria with graphene to address current challenges with imaging bacteria under electron microscopes. Berry's method creates a carbon cloak that protects the bacteria, allowing them to be imaged at their natural size and increasing the image's resolution.

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Can probiotics prevent pneumonia in patients breathing with the help of ventilators? That’s just one question researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis hope to answer as part of innovative new studies to reduce infections in health-care settings.

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The number of cancer survivors in the U.S. increased to 11.7 million in 2007, according to the CDC and NCI. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute survivorship expert said this increase underscores the importance of care givers and policy makers focusing on issues unique to cancer survivors.

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"Brundibár," an opera performed by children at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, and Holocaust survivor and original cast member Ela Weissberger come to the University of Kentucky.

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In an initial study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found people generally had a positive response toward being touched by a robotic nurse, but that their perception of the robot’s intent made a significant difference.

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University of Virginia English professor Stephen Railton's new edition of "Huck Funn" focuses on "the specific issue that has been so inseparable from the novel in its public life for the last 25 or 30 years – the issue about whether it's racist or not."

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Author Martha Ackmann of Mount Holyoke College has been tapped to give the keynote address on the first woman to play in the Negro Leagues when the National Baseball Hall of Fame honors Women's History Month on March 19.

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that they can program a robot to understand when it gains a human’s attention and when it falls short.