Test detects molecular marker of aging in humans
Jun 16, 2009 |
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In 2004, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center announced a crucial discovery in the understanding of cellular aging. They found that as cells and tissues age, ...
Researchers find genetic markers to help fight diabetes
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) scientists have identified five genetic biomarkers that could help lead to improved treatments, with fewer side-effects, for patients with diabetes.
Online obituaries are changing the way we publicly remember the dead and how newspapers cover deaths
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 16, 2009 |
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The ways we deal with death are finding a new life online, according to research being published by a Kansas State University journalism professor and her colleague.
Study gives clues to increasing X-rays' power
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Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a pair of Russian institutes.
Researchers pioneer an advanced sepsis detection and management system
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When Jason Martin gives a talk about his research, he begins with the dramatic story of Mariana Bridi da Costa: The young Brazilian supermodel died from severe sepsis in January after amputation of both her hands and feet ...
Could hormones explain gender differences in neurological disease?
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Neurological diseases including Parkinson's, Tourette's, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer's, and schizophrenia are all associated with alterations in dopamine-driven function involving the dopamine ...
Predicting fatal fungal infections
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive indivi ...
PE requirement isn't enough to fight obesity
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(AP) -- The gym at Eberhart Elementary School is bright and spacious - with high ceilings, several basketball hoops, even a large, colorful climbing wall.
Calcium -- the secret to honeybees' memory
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Long-term memory formation in honeybees is instigated by a calcium ion cascade. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have shown that calcium acts as a switch between short- and long-term storage of lea ...
CBO: Senate bill $1 trillion over 10 years
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(AP) -- A leading health care bill under consideration in Congress would cost the government an estimated $1 trillion over the next decade and reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about one-third, or 16 million individuals, ...
Scientists publish the discoveries that saved the large blue butterfly
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On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that helped them ...
Carl Linnaeus invented the index card
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As a consequence of overseas discoveries, early modern scientists faced serious information overload. The sheer amount of exotic, hitherto unknown species reaching the shores of Europe forced naturalists to reconsider the ...
Gating the tides in yeast
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Water is a crucial ingredient for life, but its level inside cells must be carefully regulated to maintain proper cell shape and size. In this week's issue of the open access journal PLoS Biology, scientists from the Univer ...
Mean new microRNA data analysis method gives sharper results
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Our understanding of the importance of microRNAs in regulating gene expression is expanding, and with it our requirement for robust methods to measure their expression levels. Now a new method published in BioMed Central's ...
New mechanism fundamental to the spread of invasive yeast infections identified
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A group of researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University Biological Sciences Professor Aaron Mitchell has identified a novel regulatory gene network that plays an important role in the spread of common, and sometimes deadly, ...
