Archive for February, 2012

Gene Therapy Could Help Corals Survive Climate Change

Editor's note: Climate Query is a semi-weekly feature offered by Daily Climate, presenting short Q&A's with players large and small in the climate arena. Read others in the series at http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/climate-queries .

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Gene Therapy Could Help Corals Survive Climate Change

Editor's note: Climate Query is a semi-weekly feature offered by Daily Climate, presenting short Q&A's with players large and small in the climate arena. Read others in the series at http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/climate-queries .

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Gene Therapy Could Help Corals Survive Climate Change

Editor's note: Climate Query is a semi-weekly feature offered by Daily Climate, presenting short Q&A's with players large and small in the climate arena. Read others in the series at http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/climate-queries .

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To Prioritize Action On Global Mental Health, A New Mental Health Framework Is Needed

For mental health to gain significant attention, and funding from policymakers globally, it is not enough to convince people that it has a high disease burden but also that there are deliverable and cost-effective interventions - according to South African researchers writing in this week's PLoS Medicine...

Sleeping Pills Tied To Higher Risk Of Death

Compared to never using sleeping pills, even using no more than 18 a year is tied to a more than threefold increased risk of death, according to researchers in the US who saw this result after controlling for every possible factor they could think of that might influence it...

Science News » Turning on Dormant Gene May Hold Key for Correcting a Neurodevelopmental Defect

Scientists working in cell culture and in mice have been able to correct the loss of gene activity underlying a rare but severe developmental disorder by turning on a gene that is normally silenced in brain cells.

Employees Able To Return To Work Sooner Following Work-Focused Psychotherapy

Employees on sick leave with common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety fully returned to work sooner when therapy deals with work-related problems and how to get back on the job, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association...

New Energy-Dense Battery Could Enable Long-Distance Electric Cars

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--A company founded in the Palo Alto public library has taken a dose of government money and technology and turned it into the most energy-dense battery ever. Envia System's new lithium-ion battery packs roughly twice as much energy per gram as present batteries, the company will announce here at the third annual summit of the Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy ( ARPA–e ). [More]

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New Energy-Dense Battery Could Enable Long-Distance Electric Cars

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--A company founded in the Palo Alto public library has taken a dose of government money and technology and turned it into the most energy-dense battery ever. Envia System's new lithium-ion battery packs roughly twice as much energy per gram as present batteries, the company will announce here at the third annual summit of the Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy ( ARPA–e ). [More]

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New Energy-Dense Battery Could Enable Long-Distance Electric Cars

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--A company founded in the Palo Alto public library has taken a dose of government money and technology and turned it into the most energy-dense battery ever. Envia System's new lithium-ion battery packs roughly twice as much energy per gram as present batteries, the company will announce here at the third annual summit of the Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy ( ARPA–e ). [More]

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