The Penn State team carried out the largest genetic study so far of when land plants and fungi first appeared on Earth in an attempt to resolve this debate.

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When Waldmann started touting this idea in 1993 as a strategy for treating various autoimmune disorders, the idea was so fringy that it took him two years to get his first big study published.

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Their brain scan study was carried out in the first few days following birth, so it is possible that the noises and sounds the newborns encountered in their new environment outside of the womb may have triggered rapid development.

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In the eighth expedition he went as a government liaison officer with the Swiss expedition to "study the mountain" hoping that this attempt too would fail so that he could be the first person to climb one of the tallest mountains in the world.

CNN: Oldest Everest climber finally gets recognition

Walsh says this was the first efficacy data for Raptiva, and so long as the problem in the rheumatoid-arthritis study was effectiveness, not safety, it shouldn't worry investors focused on Raptiva's near-term approval to treat psoriasis.

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