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Is global warming unstoppable?

November 23, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 23, 2009 -- In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions -- the major cause of global warming -- cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day.

Is global warming unstoppable?

November 23, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 23, 2009 -- In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions -- the major cause of global warming -- cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day.

Tiny bubbles clean oil from water

November 16, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 16, 2009 -- Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand.

Men leave: Separation and divorce far more common when the wife is the patient

November 10, 2009

SEATTLE -- A woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis than if a man in the relationship is the patient, according to a stud

Radio waves 'see' through walls

October 11, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 12, 2009 -- University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.

For kidney disease patients, staying active might mean staying alive

October 8, 2009

Getting off the couch could lead to a longer life for kidney disease patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that, as in the general population, exercise has significant health benefits for individuals with kidney dysfunction.

Gene variation that lets people get by on fewer zees transferred to create insomniac mice

September 16, 2009

(SALT LAKE CITY) -- A University of Utah sleep expert has joined with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford University to identify a genetic variation in humans, which the scientists also developed in mouse models, that allows a rare number of people to require less sleep than others.

Gene mutation causes severe epilepsy, febrile seizures in thousands of infants worldwide

September 16, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY -- University of Utah medical researchers have identified a gene with mutations that cause febrile seizures and contribute to a severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet syndrome in some of the most vulnerable patients -- infants 6 months and younger.

Study identifies which children do not need CT scans after head trauma

September 14, 2009

A substantial percentage of children who get CT scans after apparently minor head trauma do not need them, and as a result are put at increased risk of cancer due to radiation exposure.

Researchers find first evidence of virus in malignant prostate cells

September 7, 2009

(SALT LAKE CITY) -- In a finding with potentially major implications for identifying a viral cause of prostate cancer, researchers at the University of Utah and Columbia University medical schools have reported that a type of virus known to cause leukemia and sarcomas in animals has been found for the first time in malignant human prostate cancer cells.

New hope for deadly childhood bone cancer

August 31, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31, 2009 -- Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have shed new light on Ewing's sarcoma, an often deadly bone cancer that typically afflicts children and young adults. Their research shows that patients with poor outcomes have tumors with high levels of a protein known as GSTM4, which may suppress the effects of chemotherapy.

Why Obama's dog has curly hair

August 27, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 27, 2009 -- University of Utah researchers used data from Portuguese water dogs -- the breed of President Barack Obama's dog Bo -- to help find a gene that gives some dogs curly hair and others long, wavy hair.

Gene variation is 'major genetic determinant of psoriasis'

August 27, 2009

(SALT LAKE CITY) -- A specific genetic region that has been increasingly identified as the strongest genetic link to psoriasis has an even more significant role in the chronic skin disease than has been suspected, University of Utah medical researchers show in a new study.

Does sugar feed cancer?

August 17, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 17, 2009 -- Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have uncovered new information on the notion that sugar "feeds" tumors. The findings may also have implications for other diseases such as diabetes. The research is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new cloaking method

August 16, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 17, 2009 -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis.



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