Archive for the ‘health’ Category
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Scan of placoderm eye casing. The arrangement of muscles and nerves supporting the eyeball in placoderms provides evidence of an "intermediate stage" between the evolution of jawless and jawed vertebrates. (Credit: Image courtesy of Australian National University)
Ancient armoured fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The data are in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water. A statistical ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
A group of Purdue University researchers has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
A research team led by Jue Chen, an associate professor of biological sciences, obtained a snapshot of the tiny protein ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
What do you do when a naturally occurring hormone in your body turns against you? What do you do when that same hormone – melatonin – is a popular supplement you take to help you sleep? A University of Houston professor and his team of researchers may have some answers.
Gregg ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
American and Italian researchers have found that boosting the amounts of a marijuana-like brain transmitter called anandamide produces antidepressant effects in test rats.
Led by Daniele Piomelli, the Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences and director of the Center for Drug Discovery at the University of California, Irvine, the researchers used ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
A ton of microscopic bacteria may be active in each acre of soil. (Credit: Michael T. Holmes, Oregon State University, Corvallis.)
An bacteria and infectious diseases expert argues that all living things must have infections to thrive. Anti-bacterial products are changing how immune systems, gastrointestinal systems and even nervous systems develop ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
"In our study, socializing was just as effective as more traditional ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified a new gene responsible for a rare, inherited form of sudden cardiac arrest, known as Brugada syndrome. With the identification of this new gene, the researchers hope this will shed light on the more common forms of sudden death ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Increased levels of a protein called CUGBP1 play an important role in the adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy called myotonic dystrophy type 1, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appeared in the journal Molecular Cell.
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 is one of a growing number of ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
A radical light-activated cancer therapy that destroys tumours while leaving healthy tissues untouched has been demonstrated for the first time by a team of British scientists. The treatment, which has been developed over the past 11 years, was used to cure ovarian tumours in mice, though in principle it could ...
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