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CDC: Rare infection passed on by Miss. organ donor
Dec 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An extremely rare infection has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first human-to-human transfer of the amoeba, medical officials said Friday.
3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 04, 2009 |
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While many vaccines used around the world today are produced for profit by commercial firms, the private sector accounts for a tiny fraction of the funding for an HIV vaccine: 4 percent in 2008, down from ...
Pigs learn to understand mirrors
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.
Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...
Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional ...
Monkeys get a groove on, but only to monkey music (w/ Audio)
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Music is one of the surest ways to influence human emotions; most people unconsciously recognize and respond to music that is happy, sad, fearful or mellow. But psychologists who have tried ...
New technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The technique, as yet conducted ...
Imitation promotes social bonding in primates
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Imitation, the old saying goes, is the sincerest form of flattery. It also appears to be an ancient interpersonal mechanism that promotes social bonding and, presumably, sets the stage for relative strangers ...
Researchers propose ambitious new strategies for AIDS vaccine research
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, believe conventional vaccine strategies should not be the only avenue explored in the development of an effective AIDS vaccine. Based on studying ...
Species barrier may protect macaques from chronic wasting disease
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Data from an ongoing multi-year study suggest that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the CWD infectious agent to spread to people. The results ...
Researchers study virulence of pandemic H1N1 virus
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Laboratory studies at Kansas State University and the work of a K-State researcher are making headway in the effort to control the pandemic H1N1 virus.
Stem cell research: From molecular physiology to therapeutic applications
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Stem cell research promises remedies to many devastating diseases that are currently incurable, ranging from diabetes and Parkinson's disease to paralysis. Totipotent embryonic stem cells have great potential for generating ...
Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...
Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Gold nanoshells are among the most promising new nanoscale therapeutics being developed to kill tumors, acting as antennas that turn light energy into heat that cooks cancer to death. Now, a multi-institutional research team ...
Researchers identify parallel mechanism monkeys and humans use to recognize faces
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating ...
