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• Contraceptive pill not associated with increased long-term risk of death, study finds March 12, 2010
  Women in the UK who have ever used the oral contraceptive pill are less likely to die from any cause, including all cancers and heart disease, compared with never users, according to new research. […]
• Scientists identify microRNA as possible cause of chemotherapy resistance March 12, 2010
  Scientists may have uncovered a mechanism for resistance to paclitaxel in ovarian cancer, microRNA-31, suggesting a possible therapeutic target for overcoming chemotherapy resistance. […]
• Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel March 12, 2010
  Materials scientists have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel. […]
• Proposed mission would return sample from asteroid 'time capsule' March 12, 2010
  Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday. […]
• High-tech armrest: Computer-controlled hand and arm support devise developed for doctors, artists March 12, 2010
  Engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider area than otherwise possible, and with less fatigue. […]