Archive: 12/24/2008
Childhood anxiety disorders can and should be treated
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents should be recognized and treated to prevent educational underachievement and adult substance abuse, anxiety disorders and depression, says a nationally recognized child psychiatrist ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Researchers find mechanism underlying alt. splicing of premessenger RNA into messenger RNA
An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing ...
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Dec 24, 2008 |
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Sleep disorders: A warning sign for neurodegenerative disease?
According to the latest study by Dr. Ronald Postuma from the Research Institute of the MUHC and Dr. Jacques Montplaisir from the Université de Montréal and the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Resolve to take personal inventory this New Years, psychologist says
The end of the year is a time when many of us will make resolutions to lose weight or quit smoking. But instead of making resolutions which are often times quickly forgotten, New Years is a good time to take personal inventory ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Four Out of Six Apollos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Their names are now part of exploration history - Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. They are the sites on the lunar surface visited ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Software eases flow to fluid power trucks
Eaton Corporation is using IBM modeling software to develop series hydraulic hybrid systems. Replacing a vehicle’s conventional drive train and transmission, the series hydraulic hybrid (SHH) system promises dramatic fuel ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Structural study backs new model for the nuclear pore complex
(PhysOrg.com) -- In higher organisms, the genetic material is confined and protected in the cell nucleus. In order for a healthy cell to function, the DNA must send manufacturing orders through the double ...
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Dec 24, 2008 |
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Mothers pass on disease clues to offspring
(PhysOrg.com) -- When there is a threat of disease during pregnancy, mothers produce less aggressive sons with more efficient immune systems, researchers at The University of Nottingham have discovered.
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Predicting pandemics: HealthMap.org tracks emerging hot spots in real time
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of July 2008, major news agencies reported an outbreak of jalapeño-related salmonella that sickened more than 1,000 people in Mexico and the United States. It was the biggest outbreak ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Unlocking the dynamic web
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of the knowledge and services potentially available on the worldwide web can’t be accessed through browsers and websites. A new European research project has devised a smart toolkit that ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 24, 2008 |
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New insight into Alzheimer’s disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new molecule important in a part of the memory that allows recognition of people has been identified by researchers at the University of Bristol. This type of memory is impaired at an early ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Apolipoprotein(a): A natural regulator of inflammation
In a study to be published in the January 09 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Hoover-Plow and co-workers in seeking to define a role of apo(a) in leukocyte recruitment have identified a novel activity of apo(a) ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Motor nerve targeting to limb muscles is controlled by ephrin proteins
Montréal, December 24, 2008 - A study from a team of researchers including Dr. Artur Kania, Director of the Neural Circuit Development Research Unit at the IRCM, and Dr. Dayana Krawchuk, postdoctoral fellow, shows ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Newly found enzymes may play early role in cancer
Researchers have discovered two enzymes that, when combined, could be involved in the earliest stages of cancer. Manipulating these enzymes genetically might lead to targeted therapies aimed at slowing or preventing the onset ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Our unconscious brain makes the best decisions possible
Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that the human brain—once thought to be a seriously flawed decision maker—is actually hard-wired to allow us to make the best decisions possible with the information we ...
Dec 24, 2008 |
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