Blocking cell movement for cancer, MS treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

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University of Adelaide researchers in Australia are finding new ways to block the movement of cells in the body which can cause autoimmune diseases and the spread of cancer.

A face is more than the sum of its parts

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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You stop at a shop window and wonder why someone inside is blatantly staring at you -- until you realize this person is you. Scenarios like this are impossible for us to imagine, but quite common for sufferers of acquired ...

IQ among strongest predictors of cardiovascular disease -- second only to cigarette smoking

Medicine & Health / Health

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as reflected by low results on written or oral tests of IQ - have been associated with a raised risk of cardiovascular disease, no study has so far compared the relative strength of this association with other established ...

Communication breakdown: What happens to nerve cells in Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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A new study from The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro - at McGill University is the first to discover a molecular link between Parkinson's disease and defects in the ability of nerve cells to communicate. ...

Whooping cough vaccine may be losing its punch: study

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Vaccination programs against whooping cough may not be fully effective because the bacteria that cause the disease have evolved new strains, a new study has found. A team of Australian scientists has ...