Nissan launching $100 per month Leaf battery replacement program in 2014

How much would a Leaf owner pay to banish range anxiety? If your answer was "$100 a month," then Nissan's got a proposition for you. The car maker is gearing up to launch a domestic battery replacement program for its EV in 2014 that'll set you back that aforementioned sum. Similar to Nissan's setup in Europe, if your battery can only hold nine out of 12 bars worth of charge, it'll replace the unit with a new or reconditioned unit. The company insists that very few will ever actually need to replace the battery, but hey, squeezing $1,200 a year out of its existing customers is a sure-fire way to inspire loyalty.

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European Startups! Six More Days To Apply For The Disrupt Europe Battlefield

We're gearing up for Disrupt Europe this October in Berlin?October 26-29?-- the very first time that our flagship event is coming to this part of the world. And we want all the startups out there in Euroland to throw their hats into the ring to be a part of it, by applying for a place in the Battlefield -- our on-stage competition to find the most promising startups, showering them with attention, and then awarding the best of the best a $50,000 prize. The deadline for the Battlefield is in one week, Friday the 28th of June.

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Google: We're not handing over data to NSA 'willy-nilly'

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David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer with Google Inc., went on the PR trail Wednesday, answering questions in a live Q&A about the company's data privacy policies.

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Google?s top privacy executive ditched the legal script Wednesday, launching a spirited defense of his company?s relationship with the National Security Agency, writing, ?We?re not in cahoots with the NSA.?

As the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports, David Drummond's plainspoken approach was a big shift from Google?s legalese in the days after journalists revealed details about the NSA?s top-secret Prism program.

Google CEO Larry Page issued a carefully crafted statement the day after news of the story broke, writing, ?We have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government... direct access to our servers.?

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'Nightline' anchor Moran heading to London for ABC

ABC News "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran is getting a new posting as the network's London-based chief foreign correspondent.

Moran will head overseas late this summer, ABC said Wednesday. Moran was ABC's chief White House correspondent from 1999 to 2005 and has done many overseas and domestic stories for "Nightline," most recently from Syria.

It's a revived position at ABC News. The late Peter Jennings spent several years as a London-based correspondent before becoming the network's chief news anchor.

Dan Abrams will replace Moran alongside Cynthia McFadden and Bill Weir as "Nightline" anchors.

Abrams will also be a chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News and expand his role on "Good Morning America," ABC News President Ben Sherwood said.

Abrams is a former general manager and show host at MSNBC and a legal correspondent for NBC's "Nightly News."

Abrams will be stepping back from daily operations at Abrams Media, a network of websites he founded that includes Mediaite, to devote more time to ABC News, Sherwood said.

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Genetic 'off switch' linked to increased risk factors for heart disease

June 19, 2013 ? Risk of heart and blood vessel disease may increase when a particular gene is switched off, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Emerging Science Series Webinar.

Two known biomarkers are high blood levels of certain fats -- low-density lipoproteins ("bad" cholesterol) and high triglycerides. Another recognized biomarker is a protein called adiponectin, which is made in fat tissue and helps regulate the process of turning food into energy. At low levels it is associated with increased disease risk.

Researchers examined these biomarkers in relation to a particular gene, called CPT1A in 888 patients from the Genetics of Lipid-Lowering Drugs and Diet Network study. The gene makes a liver enzyme that helps break down fat in food.

They also monitored a biochemical process called methylation that switches off genes. During this process carbon and hydrogen atoms combine to form a compound called a methyl group, which binds to a portion of a gene and turns off its activity.

"Our results open the door to the development of new screening tools and a clearer understanding of the biological mechanisms that underlie heart disease," said Stella Aslibekyan, Ph.D., study lead author and assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

They found that patients who had methyl groups bound to CPT1A had significantly higher triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein levels, and lower adiponectin.

Heart disease is the number one killer among adults in the United States, and researchers are trying to identify individual genetic differences that might increase risk. One way to do this is by studying subtle variations in indicators of disease, or biomarkers, to identify people who are at greatest risk for developing heart disease.

"This is one step on the road to personalized medicine," Aslibekyan said. "In the future, we may be able to screen for methylation of CPT1A to identify at-risk individuals."

Co-authors are Marguerite M. Irvin, Ph.D.; Jin Sha, M.S.; Degui Zhi, Ph.D.; Krista Stanton Thibeault, M.S.; Michael Y. Tsai, M.D., Ph.D.; Paul N. Hopkins, M.D.; Ingrid B. Borecki, Ph.D.; Jose M. Ordovas, Ph.D.; Devin M. Absher, Ph.D.; and Donna K. Arnett, Ph.D.

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