Researchers identify a potentially universal mechanism of aging
Nov 26, 2008 |
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Like our current financial crisis, the aging process might also be a product excessive deregulation. Researchers have discovered that DNA damage decreases a cell's ability to regulate which genes are turned on and off in ...
Study: Curvy hips lure men to smart women
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Women with small waists and big hips also have big IQs, a new U.S. study has found.
How vitamin C stops the big 'C'
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and ...
Brain network related to intelligence identified
Sep 11, 2007 |
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A primary mystery puzzling neuroscientists -- where in the brain lies intelligence" -- just may have a unified answer.
Mounting evidence shows red wine antioxidant kills cancer
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell's core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling ...
Can't Take My Eyes Off You: New Study Shows The Power Of Attraction
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Whether we are seeking a mate or sizing up a potential rival, good-looking people capture our attention nearly instantaneously and render us temporarily helpless to turn our eyes away from them, according to a new Florida ...
Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
Jun 05, 2008 |
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Can human beings rev up their intelligence quotients, or are they stuck with IQs set by their genes at birth? Until recently, nature seemed to be the clear winner over nurture.
Humans hard-wired to be generous
May 28, 2007 |
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A study by government scientists in Washington indicates humans are hard-wired to be unselfish.
Drug triggers body's mechanism to reverse aging effect on memory process
Jul 28, 2006 |
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A drug made to enhance memory appears to trigger a natural mechanism in the brain that fully reverses age-related memory loss, even after the drug itself has left the body, according to researchers at UC Irvine.
A good night's sleep with the flip of a switch?
Apr 30, 2007 |
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The flip of a switch could become all it takes to get a good night's sleep, according to a study released Monday. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a way to stimulate the slow waves typical of ...
Exciting discovery could 'stop cancer from killing people'
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Metastasis is the ability of cancer cells to spread from a primary site, to form tumours at distant sites. It is a complex process in which cell motility and invasion play a fundamental role. Essential to our understanding ...
A new way to fight cancer: the silver shield
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Fasting for two days protects healthy cells against chemotherapy, according to a study appearing online the week of Mar. 31 in PNAS Early Edition. Mice given a high dose of chemotherapy after fasting continued to thrive. The sa ...
How does your brain tell time?
Jan 31, 2007 |
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"Time" is the most popular noun in the English language, yet how would we tell time if we didn’t have access to the plethora of watches, clocks and cell phones at our disposal?
Ibuprofen or acetaminophen in long-term resistance training increases muscle mass/strength
Apr 06, 2008 |
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Taking daily recommended dosages of ibuprofen and acetaminophen caused a substantially greater increase over placebo in the amount of quadriceps muscle mass and muscle strength gained during three months of regular weight ...
Scientists restore walking after spinal cord injury
Jan 06, 2008 |
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Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve ...
