 Neighbour's aid for jobless nerve cells September 01, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the laws of nature states that empty spaces don’t stay empty for long. Be it the flowerbed, which is overgrown with weeds in no time, or the gap in your appointment calendar, which ... | |
New approach, old drug show promise against hepatitis C, research shows August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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The fight against the liver disease hepatitis C has been at something of an impasse for years, with more than 150 million people currently infected, and traditional antiviral treatments causing nasty side effects and often ... | |
Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic ... | |
Substance found in fruits and vegetables reduces likelihood of the flu September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Mice given quercetin, a naturally occurring substance found in fruits and vegetables, were less likely to contract the flu, according to a study published by The American Physiological Society. The study also found that stressful ... | |
 Fatal protein interactions may explain neurological diseases September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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In a collaborative study at the University of California, San Diego, investigators from neurosciences, chemistry and medicine, as well as the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have investigated how proteins ... | |
Age-related memory loss tied to slip in filtering information quickly September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists have identified a way in which the brain's ability to process information diminishes with age, and shown that this break down contributes to the decreased ability to form memories that is associated with normal ... | |
Study finds B-vitamin deficiency may cause vascular cognitive impairment September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A deficiency of B-vitamins may cause vascular cognitive impairment, according to a new study. Researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University used an experimental model ... | |
Is There a 'Mozart Effect'? Ask a Neuroscientist and a Musicologist September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists and musicians have learned that looking at the brain on music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. Yet, University of Arkansas music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis cautions ... | |
Study: Bypass better than stents in long term September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have? In research presented Monday at the European ... | |
 Do 68 molecules hold the key to understanding disease? September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Why is it that the origins of many serious diseases remain a mystery? In considering that question, a scientist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has come up with a unified molecular ... | |
Sex hormones link to heart risk September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Men are more prone to – and likely to die of - heart disease compared with women of a similar age – and sex hormones are to blame, according to a new University of Leicester led study. | |
New master switch found in the brain that regulates appetite and reproduction August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Body weight and fertility have long known to be related to each other – women who are too thin, for example, can have trouble becoming pregnant. Now, a master switch has been found in the brain of mice that controls both, ... | |
Virus weaves itself into the DNA transferred from parents to babies September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Parents expect to pass on their eye or hair color, their knobby knees or their big feet to their children through their genes. But they don't expect to pass on viruses through those same genes. | |
Study shows no connection between measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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In a case-control study, the presence of measles virus RNA was no more likely in children with autism and GI disturbances than in children with only GI disturbances. Furthermore, GI symptom and autism onset were unrelated ... | |
 Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function September 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, ... | |
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