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Vitamin E may lessen chronic inflammation (UPI)

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Chronic muscle inflammation may be lessened by taking vitamin E, a U.S. researcher suggests.

Polar Dinosaurs Endured Cold Dark Winters (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

Polar dinosaurs such as the 4.4-ton duckbill Edmontosaurus are thought by some paleontologists to have been champion migrators to avoid the cold, dark season. But a study now claims that most of these beasts preferred to stick closer to home despite potentially deadly winter weather.

Theory on brain's rhythms offers some new hopes (International Herald Tribune)

Dr. Rodolfo Llinas, the chairman of neuroscience and physiology at the New York University School of Medicine, said he believed that abnormal brain rhythms help account for a variety of serious disorders, including Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, tinnitus and depression.

Golf courses tout their environmental credentials (Austin American-Statesman)

At the Jack Nicklaus-designed Hills course at the Hills Country Club in Lakeway, a creek and waterfalls cut through the handsomely manicured greens that roll amid a gated subdivision.

Applied Biosystems SOLiD System Named Life Science Innovation Of The Year (BioresearchOnline)

Applied Biosystems, part of Life Technologies Corporation , a provider of innovative life science research and discovery solutions, today announced that its technology for next-generation genomic analysis, the SOLiD™ System, has been named the Life Science Innovation of the Year for 2008 by The Scientist, a leading scientific publication focused on the life science industry. In making the ...