Clinical depression linked to abnormal emotional brain circuits
Aug 15, 2007 |
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In what may be the first study to use brain imaging to look at the neural circuits involved in emotional control in patients with depression, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that brains of people ...
Study asks how safe is high school football?
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Football, one of the most popular sports in the United States, is also the leading cause of sports-related injuries. During the 2005-06 season, high school football players sustained more than half a million ...
Humans fostering forest-destroying disease
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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Enjoying your August vacation? Well, (as they say in the summer movies) there’s a killer in the woods. Its strike has been consistently quiet, sudden, and deadly. Unknowingly, we have all been playing into its hands… But ...
Lake Superior might hit record low levels
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Lake Superior is nearing a record low level for the month of August and might set records for September and October, U.S. government hydrologists said.
Freshwater supplies threatened in central Pacific
Aug 15, 2007 |
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An international team from The Australian National University, Ecowise Environmental, the Government of the Republic of Kiribati, the French agency CIRAD and the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission has been studying ...
Eating junk food whilst pregnant and breastfeeding may lead to obese offspring
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy and breastfeeding may be putting their children at risk of overeating and developing obesity, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and carried out at the Royal Veterinary ...
DNA replication behavior in complex organisms may foreshadow leaps in genomic discoveries
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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For the first time, findings by scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) may be paving the way for more efficient analyses and tests related to the replication of cells, and ultimately, to the better understanding ...
Palm oil demand puts orangutans at risk
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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The growing demand for bio-diesel fuel threatens the survival of the orangutans of Borneo, the largest surviving population of the primate in the wild.
Air pollution linked to cardiovascular risk indices in healthy young adults
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Researchers in Taiwan have demonstrated for the first time that urban air pollution simultaneously affects key indicators of cardiovascular risk in young adults: inflammation, oxidative stress, coagulation and autonomic dysfunction.
HIV is a 'double hit' to the brain
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 15, 2007 |
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New evidence reported in the August issue of Cell Stem Cell, a publication of Cell Press, offers a novel perspective on how the HIV/AIDS virus leads to learning and memory deficits, a condition known as HIV-associated dement ...
Adaptation to parasites drive African fishes along different evolutionary paths
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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An international team of scientists from Canada (Université Laval), the U.K. (University of Hull, Cardiff University) and Spain (Doňana Biological Station), have discovered that a pair of closely related species of East African ...
Low levels of key protein may indicate pancreatic cancer risk
Aug 15, 2007 |
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A protein that dwindles in response to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle may one day help doctors predict which people are at increased risk for pancreatic cancer, new research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and collaborating ...
New target for anti-flu drug development
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Scientists at Cure Lab, Inc., a biotechnology company based in Canton, Massachusetts, in collaboration with researchers at Boston University and Harvard Medical School have discovered a potential new target for the development ...
Nicotinic receptors may be important targets for treatment of multiple addictions
Aug 15, 2007 |
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For years, scientists have known that some people are biologically more susceptible to drug addiction than others, but they have only been able to speculate why.
Mars equipment is field-tested in Norway
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 15, 2007 |
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An international group of space scientists and engineers are in Svalbard, Norway, field-testing instruments for future Mars missions.
