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Videos can help cancer patients choose level of care they prefer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Patients with terminal brain cancer who watched a brief video illustrating options for end-of-life care were significantly more likely to indicate a preference for comfort measures only than were patients who listened to ...


Obesity will snuff out health benefits gained by smoking declines

Medicine & Health / Health

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If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the ...


Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able to view in detail, and for the first time, the previously mysterious process by which long chains of a protein called ubiquitin ...


Discovery makes brain tumor cells more responsive to radiation

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Duke University Medical Center researchers have figured out how stem cells in the malignant brain cancer glioma may be better able to resist radiation therapy. And using a drug to block a particular signaling pathway in these ...


Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...


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Latest epidemic? High cholesterol, obesity in fruit flies

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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How do fruit flies get high cholesterol and become obese? The same way as people do - by eating a diet that's too rich in fats.


Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Biology / Plants & Animals

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A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from the Ne ...


Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts (AP)

Scientists: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts

Medicine & Health / Research

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(AP) -- A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.


Maryland Farmer grows plants for green roofs around nation

Space & Earth / Environment

created 8 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

It is a crisp fall day on Emory Knoll Farms as John Shepley stops at a raspberry bush, picks a few berries and pops them into his mouth on his walk to the greenhouses.


Why females live longer than males: is it due to the father's sperm?

Medicine & Health / Research

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 11

Researchers in Japan have found that female mice produced by using genetic material from two mothers but no father live significantly longer than mice with the normal mix of maternal and paternal genes. Their findings provide ...



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