Study sheds light on cause of bowel disease
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Scientists have uncovered vital clues about how to treat serious bowel disorders by studying the behaviour of cells in the colon.
Fructose metabolism more complicated than was thought
Dec 09, 2008 |
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A new University of Illinois study suggests that we may pay a price for ingesting too much fructose. According to lead author Manabu Nakamura, dietary fructose affects a wide range of genes in the liver that had not previously ...
A life worth living: The science of human flourishing
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2008 |
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What do we know about human well-being? The answer is, surprisingly little, compared with what is known about human illness, dysfunction and disease.
Study reveals effects of unconscious exposure to advertisements
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Fads have been a staple of American pop culture for decades, from spandex in the 1980s to skinny jeans today. But while going from fad to flop may seem like the result of fickle consumers, a new study suggests that this is ...
Wii bit of fun at Rice University has serious intent
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Why are some people fast learners? Can we teach everybody to be like them? Yes, Wii can. A Rice University research project recently funded by the National Science Foundation is making use of Nintendo's popular video game ...
Surface-level ozone pollution set to reduce tree growth 10 percent by 2100
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Modern day concentrations of ground level ozone pollution are decreasing the growth of trees in the northern and temperate mid-latitudes, as shown in a paper publishing today in Global Change Biology. Tree growth, measur ...
Researchers track lobster migrations to improve population estimates
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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Jason Goldstein checks his lobster traps in New Hampshire's Great Bay Estuary once a week, but not for tasty crustaceans to sell. Instead, the University of New Hampshire Ph.D. candidate is fitting these lobsters ...
Handling rejection: New study sheds light on why it hurts
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rejection is one of those universal experiences we can all relate to. Whether it's family or social, through business or a romantic rejection, that feeling of exclusion, or a lack of acceptance, is something ...
Discovery of microbe in roundworm provides animal model for 'emerging pathogen'
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of microsporidia, a single-celled parasite of animals, in a roundworm used in genetic laboratories around the world.
First 3D images obtained of core component of molecular machinery used for cell reproduction
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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For the first time, structural biologists have managed to obtain the detailed three-dimensional structure of one of the proteins that form the core of the complex molecular machine, called the replisome, that ...
Why do some bird species lay only one egg?
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some species of birds lay only one egg in their nest, while others lay 10 or more? A global study of the wide variation among birds in this trait, known as the "clutch size," now provides ...
Production line for artificial skin
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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Some patients wish they had a second skin – for instance because their own skin has been burnt in a severe accident. But transplanting skin is a painstaking task, and a transplant that has to cover large areas ...
People in the US and the UK show strong similarities in their attitudes toward nanotechnologies
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 09, 2008 |
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The results of a new U.S.–U.K. study published in this week's journal Nature Nanotechnology show that ordinary people in both countries hold very positive views of nanotechnologies and what the future of these technologies might ...
When it's more than the 'terrible twos'
Dec 09, 2008 |
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We all know how infants can act up during their terrible twos, but when these behaviors are accompanied by developmental setbacks, they could point to something more serious.
Hepatitis C treatment reduces the virus but liver damage continues
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Treating patients who have chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease with long-term pegylated interferon significantly decreased their liver enzymes, viral levels and liver inflammation, but the treatment did not slow ...
