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Courtney Love sued by top fashion designer for defamation

Courtney Love sued by top fashion designer for defamationWashington, Mar 27 : Top fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir has sued troubled singer Courtney Love for defamation, claiming that the rocker has been trying to ruin her business.

Dawn filed a case against Courtney in L. A., claiming that she has been defaming her by spread lies about her on her own website, calling her "an a**wipe nasty lying hosebag thief", among other things, reports Contactmusic.

Modified magnetic resonance imaging may help picture disease metabolism in action

Modified magnetic resonance imaging may help picture disease metabolism in actionWashington, March 27 : Duke University researchers have devised a new MRI signalling method that can help see such molecular changes inside the body as may signal health problems like cancer.

Warren Warren, James B. Duke Professor of chemistry at Duke, says that the novel method makes more of the body''s chemistry visible by MRI.

When used for brain imaging, MRI enlist the hydrogen atoms in water to create a graphic display in response to magnetic pulses and radio waves.

Holly Madison suffers rib injury on ‘Dancing With The Stars’

Holly MadisonWashington, Mar 27 : Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison has suffered a rib injury while rehearsing for U. S. reality TV series ‘Dancing With The Stars’.

But the ‘Girls Next Door’ star has vowed to continue competing on the show.

She was called up as a late replacement for singer Jewel, who was diagnosed with tendinitis after collapsing in rehearsals.

However, Madison has now suffered an injury of her own, after a fall left her with a painful rib injury.

Climate change aims need to be better integrated

Climate change aims need to be better integratedWashington, March 27 : A report published by the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER), has suggested that specific measures to tackle climate change, such as emissions trading, will only be successful if they are coherently supported by other government policies addressing economic and social issues.

The report explains that, in order to create an effective, Europe wide climate policy, climate change issues must be better integrated into both general and sector-specific policies such as taxation, transportation, and land use planning.

Crabs not only suffer pain but remember it as well

Fiddler CrabWashington, March 27 : A new study by a Queen’s University Belfast academic has shown that crabs not only suffer pain but that they retain a memory of it.

The study, which looked at the reactions of hermit crabs to small electric shocks, was carried out by Professor Bob Elwood and Mirjam Appel from the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s.

Professor Elwood, who previously carried out a study showing that prawns endure pain, said his research highlighted the need to investigate how crustaceans used in food industries are treated.

First-ever video reveals how HIV spreads

HIVWashington, Mar 27 : A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology has made a breakthrough in understanding how HIV spreads through the human body after capturing the process on camera.

Researchers have recorded the transfer of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from infected to uninfected T cells through structures called virological synapses.

The breakthrough study could lead to new methods to block the transmission of HIV, and shows that cell-to-cell may be the predominant mode of HIV transmission in the body.

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