Hyperactive students mature later
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Although the brains of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder develop more slowly than those of other children, they catch up, a new study says.
Researchers find lower response rates to antidepressants with African-Americans, Latinos
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Drawing from data in the nation's largest real-world study of treatment-resistant depression, a team led by researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) reported in November’s ...
A protein converts immune cells to tumor killers
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Tumor cells are masters at evading detection. But new research from Rockefeller University shows how they can be exposed. By harnessing the immune system of patients with a rare neurological disorder, scientists have figured ...
A definitive guide to the great mantle plume debate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Geoscientists' heightened debate on the existence of mantle plumes is highlighted in a new volume published by the Geological Society of America. Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes includes both chapters advocating the ...
Researchers investigate ways to detect lupus-associated kidney disease
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High urinary levels of certain molecules might have the potential to serve as biomarkers for a potentially life-shortening kidney ailment caused by the autoimmune disease lupus, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...
Telomerase enzyme structure provides significant new target for anti-cancer therapies
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Inappropriate activation of a single enzyme, telomerase, is associated with the uncontrollable proliferation of cells seen in as many as 90 percent of all of human cancers. Since the mid-1990s, when telomerase was first identified ...
Model explains how abused moms decide to leave
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Two University of Illinois scientists have found a way to help health-care providers, social workers, and abused women’s families understand the stages that these women go through when deciding to leave their partners.
Infineon, Intel to Develop High-Density SIM Card Solutions
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Today at the Cartes Trade Show in Paris, Infineon Technologies announced a strategic technology collaboration for the development of optimized chip solutions for high-density (HD) SIM cards with Intel Corporation.
Scientists uncover key pathway, potential drug targets in autoinflammatory disease
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Molecular biologists at Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia have detailed the cascade of cellular events behind some potentially dangerous autoinflammatory diseases. In doing so, they not only have gained a greater ...
A new view on sensing, movement, and behavioral control in animals
Biology /
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While most animals, including humans, preferentially sense and move toward objects that are in front of them, an electric fish from the Amazon called the black ghost knifefish can swim backward or forward ...
Hand washing critical to avoiding illness over holidays, expert says
Nov 13, 2007 |
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A Purdue University expert says food safety this holiday season should start with soap. "It's cold season," said Laura Palmer, a Cooperative Extension Service specialist in foods and nutrition and a registered dietitian. "Th ...
Ultrasound may better classify ovarian tumors
Nov 13, 2007 |
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An elevated level of the protein CA-125 in blood is considered an indicator of whether an ovarian tumor is benign or malignant. This measure, however, can often be inaccurate. Another option is an ultrasound examination of ...
Tiny fish can yield big clues to Delaware River health
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Where have all the bridle shiner gone? That’s the mystery The Academy of Natural Sciences’ fish scientists are trying to answer, and the outcome will shed light on the environmental health of the Upper Delaware ...
63 percent of diabetics risk serious foot problems by wearing the wrong-sized shoes
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More than six out of ten people with diabetes are walking around in the wrong-sized shoes, exposing themselves to serious foot problems that could lead to amputation, according to research in the November issue of IJCP, the ...
Study sees potential for acceleration in U.S. emissions
Nov 13, 2007 |
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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, even with technological advances and current energy-saving efforts, according to a new study by MIT's Richard Eckaus, ...
