Probiotic bacteria can induce monocyte-derived dendritic cells maturation?
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Probiotic bacteria are widely used to relieve the symptoms of many disorders such as inflammatory bowel syndrome, diarrhea, and allergies. Probiotic mixtures have also been found to reduce the symptoms of diarrhea. In children ...
Gamers play against type: Avid online role-players do not fit gamer stereotypes, survey finds
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Participants in the role-playing game EverQuest II defy the stereotype of the overweight male teenager, researchers reported this month in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Great bustards to be released on Salisbury Plain
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath and conservationists from the Great Bustard Group will be releasing 19 birds on Salisbury Plain on Thursday 25 September as part of an ongoing reintroduction project in ...
Personality can hamper a physician's assessment of depression
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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A physician's personality can affect practice behavior in inquiries about patient mood symptoms and the diagnosis of depression, according to a study led by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers.
Researchers find an essential gene for forming ears of corn
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) professor David Jackson, Ph.D., and a team of plant geneticists have identified a gene essential in controlling development of the maize plant, commonly known in the United States as corn. ...
NTDs burden in Latin America and the Caribbean may exceed that of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria
Sep 24, 2008 |
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According to a new analysis published September 24th in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, "The Neglected Tropical Diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Disease Burden and Distri ...
Vegetation hardly affected by extreme flood events
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Extreme flood events in floodplain grasslands affect carabid beetles and molluscs more than plants. This is the finding of a study by biologists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), ...
Scientist plans to test for blood pressure genes affected by age
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A geneticist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston plans to scan the genomes of about 4,000 people in the hopes of finding out why blood pressure often increases as young adults age.
Potential treatment option for severe emphysema under study
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Emory University researchers are participating in a nationwide study to explore an investigational treatment for advanced widespread emphysema. The EASE (Exhale Airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial focuses on airway bypass, ...
What to do with leftover embryos in fertility clinics?
Sep 24, 2008 |
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The majority of infertility patients are in favor of using left-over embryos for stem cell research and would also support selling left-over embryos to other couples, according to a recent survey.
Young women w/ early form of breast cancer no more likely to experience recurrence than older women
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Young women with DCIS, a common form of early breast cancer that arises in and is confined to the mammary ducts, are presumed more likely to have recurrences than older women with the same diagnosis. But a new study from ...
Presidential debates are mostly positive and emphasize policy
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are preparing for their first presidential debate this week. William Benoit, one of the nation's leading experts on political campaigns at the University of Missouri, says ...
Mapping the neuron-behavior link in Rett Syndrome
Sep 24, 2008 |
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A link between certain behaviors and the lack of the protein associated with Rett Syndrome – a devastating autism spectrum disorder – demonstrates the importance of MeCP2 (the protein) and reveals never-before recognized ...
Simple, inexpensive and objective tools for the assessment of mucosal inflammation: fecal markers
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UC and CD, the two major forms of IBD are chronic, idiopathic inflammatory conditions of the gut with a typically relapsing and remitting course. A prominent feature in mucosal biopsies from patients with active IBD is infiltration ...
Racial disparities decline for cancer in Missouri
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Cancer death rates in the United States are highest among African Americans, but a new report shows that in Missouri the disparity in cancer incidence and death between African Americans and whites is declining. As a result, ...
