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Scientists have cloned man's best friend for the first time, creating a genetic duplicate of a 3-year-old male Afghan hound, South Korean scientists reported Wenesday.

The Annual Steering Committee Meeting of the Presidents' Forum of Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan Universities was held in National Cheng Kung University , Tainan, Taiwan on November 12th ~ 13th, 2009.

There may be a link between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and phthalates, a substance used in plastics, researchers in South Korea said.

Shane McLeod reported this story on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:29:00 ELEANOR HALL: The Government in the Philippines is vowing to track down those responsible for a brutal massacre in the country's troubled south.

Threat of terror attacks on school buses: Educational institutions hire guards for protection * Precautionary measures follow intelligence reports, govt warnings By Hussain Kashif LAHORE: Following intelligence reports that terrorists might attack school and college buses, top educational institutions in the city have deployed security guards on ...

Melbourne, November 18 : Forget romance. Australian researchers have pointed out that smoking, kids, age and cash were among key indicators of whether a marriage or partnership will survive.

The government has officially asked Seoul National University to create a draft plan for its planned second campus in Sejong City, located in North Chungcheong Province near Daejeon.

Phthalates are important components of many consumer products, including toys, cleaning materials, plastics, and personal care items.

Never mind his posture. Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal is an upright man and he's upset.

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. , a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its InfiniBand adapters and switch solutions demonstrate the highest growth on the TOP500 in the last two years.

To the envy of geeks everywhere Australia's most powerful computer has been officially launched in Canberra, ushering in a new era for scientific research.

A dormant debate between the prosecution and the police over the realignment of the authority to investigate criminal cases resurfaced again yesterday when the Democratic Party and the police jump-started a campaign to grant more power to the police.

Professor Baume says some groups will oppose his softer approach. Former Fraser government minister Peter Baume has endorsed an international report which proposes regulating illegal drugs in the same way as pharmaceuticals.

The most powerful supercomputer in the country is now online at the Australian National University in Canberra.

President Barack Obama met with Myanmara s military-installed prime minister Thein Sein and other Southeast Asian leaders in a historic meeting intended to counter Chinaa s growing clout in the resource-rich region.

You are more likely to 'forgive and forget' when you have been hurt by a lover rather than by a friend, says a new study.

New research has found stress is one of the leading triggers of poor body image in teenagers.

With the national unemployment rate nearing a post-Depression high, there are more than six times as many workers looking for jobs as there are job openings, according to government data released yesterday.

Main Category: Menopause Also Included In: Bones / Orthopaedics Article Date: 10 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST rate article Women who have an early menopause are unlikely to have a long term increased risk of hip fractures associated with menopausal bone density weakening, according to a new study from The Australian National University.

Three Singapore biomedical institutions have launched a major, long-term study of pregnant mothers and their fetuses as well as infant children to determine just how profoundly environmental factors early in life influence the onset of diseases such as obesity and diabetes in later years.