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Researchers Awarded Grant to Study PRRS
2013-01-15 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - A team of researchers at Iowa State University has received a $3 million grant to study genetic resistance to the costliest disease threatening the pork industry and transfer this technology to the industry, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).
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Researchers honor Swartz's memory with PDF protest
2013-01-13 18:33:08| CNET News.com
Links to hundreds of articles appear on Twitter in tribute to the Internet activist who committed suicide Friday. [Read more]
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Yahoo email patch ineffective, security researchers say
2013-01-10 13:21:08| InfoWorld: Top News
Security researchers say a patch released by Yahoo earlier this week for a serious email vulnerability did not fix the problem, leaving users at risk. The cross-site scripting flaw was found by Shahin Ramezany, who goes by the nickname "Abysssec." The vulnerability can allow an attacker to harvest a victim's cookie for their Yahoo account if the victim is successfully tricked into clicking on a malicious link.
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MIT researchers crack cheap, precise gene therapy
2013-01-09 18:08:25| Extremetech
A single enzyme from a bacteria's immune system can effectively be used to locate specific sections of DNA in a living cell. From there, entire genes can be neutralized or replaced with superior sections of DNA. Clearly, we are on the brink of gene therapy becoming a common and highly effective treatment for terrible diseases like AIDS and cancer.
Climate change is likely to increase the occurrence of stomach bugs, researchers predict
2013-01-07 14:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Medical Xpress: We can blame all sorts of things on the weather. But a stomach bug? It seems unlikely. Yet, scientists say greater quantities of rainfall and bigger storms will lead to more stomach upsets in parts of Europe. "Increases in precipitation in some countries, due to climate change, will affect waterborne outbreaks of disease," Apostolos Vantarakis of the University of Patros, Greece, tells youris.com. Storms and persistent rainfall can lead to sewage overflows, which releases water with bacteria and...
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