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In Brazil number of hip fractures expected to increase 32 percent by 2050
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(International Osteoporosis Foundation) A new Audit report on fragility fractures, issued today by the International Osteoporosis Foundation, predicts that Brazil will experience an explosion in the number of fragility fractures due to osteoporosis in the coming decades. While today there are an estimated 121,700 annual hip fractures, these numbers are predicted to increase by 16 percent in 2020, and by 32 percent in 2050.

Feeling strong emotions makes peoples' brains 'tick together'
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(Aalto University) Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals, research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed.

Scientists evaluate different antimicrobial metals for use in water filters
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(American Institute of Physics) Researchers from Princeton University in New Jersey used atomic force microscopy measurements to study the adhesion interaction between Escherichia coli bacteria and colloidal silver, silver nanoparticles, and copper nanoparticles, as well as the interactions of the bacteria and the three different types of metal to porous clay-based ceramic surfaces.

Funding will establish platform technology for emerging synthetic biology field
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will help the UK's world-leading researchers in synthetic biology to establish platform technology in the emerging field with a new grant of almost £5 million. Platform technology is the crucial next step necessary for applications to be produced and commercialized.

Helmsley Charitable Trust grants $6.3 million to University of Louisville for neurosurgery
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(University of Louisville) The University of Louisville has received $6.3 million from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support research in the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at UofL developing the next generation of technology to help paralyzed people regain movement in their limbs and enhance their quality of life.

Cyber exercise partners help you go the distance
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(Michigan State University) A new study testing the benefits of a virtual exercise partner shows the presence of a moderately more capable cycling partner can significantly boost the motivation -- by as much as 100 percent -- to stick to an exercise program.

Feola, at University of Kentucky, receives NIH grant to study cystic fibrosis
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(University of Kentucky) David Feola, a University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his research investigating immune responses in the lungs that will potentially lead to the discovery of medical treatments for patients with cystic fibrosis and other chronic pulmonary inflammatory conditions.

Childhood cancer scars survivors later in life
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(Northwestern University) Scars left behind by childhood cancer treatments are more than skin-deep. The increased risk of disfigurement and persistent hair loss caused by childhood cancer and treatment are associated with emotional distress and reduced quality of life in adulthood, according to a new study led by a Northwestern Medicine advanced practice nurse, Karen Kinahan, and based on data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

Minister announces £250M strategic investment in UK bioscience
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, will today announce substantial funding that will ensure the UK's bioscience research base remains globally competitive and at the forefront of meeting the grand challenges faced by society in the coming decades. The announcement will be made by the Minister during a visit to the Babraham Research Campus, near Cambridge, and highlighted again during a major speech at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

Device may inject a variety of drugs without using needles
24 May 2012, 4:00 am
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle.