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Outlook Is Grim for Mammals and Birds as Human Population Grows

The ongoing global growth in the human population will inevitably crowd out mammals and birds and has the potential to threaten hundreds of species with extinction within 40 years, new research shows.

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2013 Alzheimer’s Disease Plan Update and Lewy Body Dementia (LBD)

The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) applauds the progress being made on the National Alzheimer’s Plan, just updated to show achievements, newly set goals in dementia research, care and services.

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Stress Hormone Could Trigger Mechanism for the Onset of Alzheimer’s

A chemical hormone released in the body as a reaction to stress could be a key trigger of the mechanism for the late onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

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New Solar Car From U-Michigan Has Sleek, Asymmetrical Design

The lopsided solar car named Generation, unveiled today, might be the oddest-looking vehicle the top-ranked University of Michigan team has ever built. But the bold shape is a calculated effort to design the most efficient car possible, given major changes in World Solar Challenge race rules.

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Researchers Predict Possible Record-Setting Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone,' Modest Chesapeake Bay Oxygen-Starved Zone

Spring floods across the Midwest are expected to contribute to a very large and potentially record-setting 2013 Gulf of Mexico "dead zone," according to a University of Michigan ecologist and colleagues who released their annual forecast today, along with one for the Chesapeake Bay.

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Wichita State Archaeologist Focuses Research on Ancient Social Change

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Lisa Overholtzer, an assistant anthropology professor at Wichita State University, is researching whether the Aztecs who conquered the city of Xaltocan in ancient Mexico around the year 1435 changed the genetic makeup of those who lived there.

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Perioperative Cardiac Events After Receiving Laughing Gas Are Not Hereditary

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A clinical trial published in the July issue of Anesthesiology may shed some light on whether nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”) causes an increased risk for cardiac events, including heart attacks after surgery, particularly among high-risk patients.

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Anesthetic Choice Does Not Affect Duration of Hospitalization

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The use of a less-expensive, longer-acting anesthetic (isoflurane) resulted in no difference in duration of hospitalization compared to the use of a more expensive, shorter-acting anesthetic (desflurane or sevoflurane), according to a study from the July issue of Anesthesiology.

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Laughing Gas Does Not Increase Heart Attacks

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Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is one of the world’s oldest and most widely used anesthetics, but concerns that it raises the risk of a heart attack during surgery or soon afterward are unfounded, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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BIOMASS, a Satellite to Monitor World’s Forests, Set for 2020 Launch

The European Space Agency is set to develop a new Earth-observing satellite that will map and monitor global forests, providing an unprecedented level of detail and understanding to the role forests play in the global carbon cycle and potential climate change.

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