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• Drug that improves blood flow in damaged heart might also fight breast cancer
• While not necessarily reality, perception can cause reality to evolve
• Accelerated discovery a triple threat to triple negative breast cancer
• Open-source plant database confirms top US bioenergy crop
• Police sobriety checkpoints can reduce drunk driving better than increased penalties

Drug that improves blood flow in damaged heart might also fight breast cancer Posted: 06 Jan 2017 01:33 PM PST Researchers are looking at a drug once used to improve blood flow in damaged hearts in thousands of patients as a possible treatment option for triple negative breast cancer.

While not necessarily reality, perception can cause reality to evolve Posted: 06 Jan 2017 01:30 PM PST Perception can drive the evolution of observable traits, a new study has demonstrated. Understanding perceptual abilities, including the ability to notice differences in stimuli, is critical to understanding the evolution of observable traits, the new report outlines.

Accelerated discovery a triple threat to triple negative breast cancer Posted: 06 Jan 2017 08:11 AM PST Researchers have advanced a potential treatment for metaplastic breast cancer--the most aggressive subtype of triple negative breast cancer, into patients in just under four years.

Open-source plant database confirms top US bioenergy crop Posted: 06 Jan 2017 06:28 AM PST Scientists have confirmed that Miscanthus, long speculated to be the top biofuel producer, yields more than twice as much as switchgrass in the US using an open-source bioenergy crop database gaining traction in plant science, climate change, and ecology research.

Police sobriety checkpoints can reduce drunk driving better than increased penalties Posted: 05 Jan 2017 06:33 PM PST Driving while impaired (DWI) causes more than 10,000 deaths per year in the United States. Although enforcing criminal sanctions for DWI is the traditional response, the success of these measures has been inconsistent. This study looked at risk perceptions as a method of reducing the frequency of DWI - in other words, whether the threat of being apprehended for DWI can deter people from engaging in this behavior.