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'Angry' extroverts should do best in the ring

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boxers are renowned for upping the ante by trading slurs and insults at pre-fight weigh-ins or press conferences - but research by sports psychologists suggests that the role goes beyond showmanship. If effectively ...


Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...


Tarantula venom-based MD therapy to be advanced by UB scientists' biotech company

Biology / Biotechnology

created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University at Buffalo biophysicists have found a protein in tarantula venom that shows promise as a potential therapy for muscular dystrophy (MD). They have formed a start-up biotech company in Buffalo -- Rose Pharmaceuticals ...


Couples are better able to cope with health shocks than singles: study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Marital status plays a significant role in how individuals cope economically with disability and health shocks, according to a working paper by University of British Columbia economists Giovanni Gallipoli and Laura Turner.


Judge not lest ye be judged? Researchers explore 'moral hypocrisy' in powerful people

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 8

2009 may well be remembered for its scandal-ridden headlines, from admissions of extramarital affairs by governors and senators, to corporate executives flying private jets while cutting employee benefits, and most recently, ...


Tracking Virus Resistance Genes in Watermelon Made Easier

Tracking Virus Resistance Genes in Watermelon Made Easier

Biology / Biotechnology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding watermelon genes that confer resistance to the devastating zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) has just been made easier, thanks to molecular markers developed by Agricultural Research ...


Highlight: Chloride increases response to pheromones and odors in mouse sensory neurons

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is an odor detection system that mediates many pheromone-sensitive behaviors. Vomeronasal sensory neurons (VSNs), located in the VNO, are the initial site of interaction with odors and pheromones. ...


One step closer to closure: Neuroscientists discovery key to spinal cord defects

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Spinal cord disorders like spina bifida arise during early development when future spinal cord cells growing in a flat layer fail to roll up into a tube. In the Dec. 6 issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Jo ...


A 'fountain of youth' for stem cells?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study in the current issue of Cell Transplantation, that explores ways to successfully keep stem cells "forever young" ...


Scientists Show How Bacteria Move Electrons Across a Membrane

Scientists Show How Bacteria Move Electrons Across a Membrane

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of East Anglia, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which some bacteria ...



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