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Fibromyalgia pain may cause memory blips
Dec 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The chronic pain from Fibromyalgia is devastating, but the suffering doesn't end there. According to a new study by the University of Alberta's Bruce Dick, people with the disease may have disruption in their ...
'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the ...
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New discovery points to a new treatment avenue for acute myeloid leukemia
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Dr. John Dick, Senior Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute, the research arm of Princess Margaret Hospital, co-led a multinational team that has developed the first leukemia therapy that targets a protein, CD123, on ...
Two golden eagles poisoned in Scotland
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Aug 06, 2006 |
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Police are investigating the poisoning of two golden eagles found dead in the Cairngorms National Park in northeastern Scotland.
The kapok connection -- Study explains rainforest similarities
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Jun 16, 2007 |
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Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South American ...
Both gender and friendship can influence adolescent alcohol use
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Adolescents who drink alcohol, smoke and/or use drugs tend to have peers who do the same. A new study that looked at other factors which may moderate the influence of peers has found that gender, and gender of friends, can ...
Bridging the gap between wireless sensor networks and the scientists who use them
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, simpler programming language for wireless sensor networks is designed for easy use by geologists who might use them to monitor volcanoes and biologists who rely on them to understand birds' nesting ...
New monitor for eye disease
Dec 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The monitoring and treatment of eye diseases that may cause blindness has taken a big leap forward, thanks to a new imaging technique that takes high quality colour photographs of the whole ...
Biosensor for measuring stress in cells
May 16, 2008 |
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Cancer, nervous system disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular disorders and old age have one thing in common: Both in afflicted tissue and in aging cells, scientists have observed oxidative changes in important ...
New treatment option for latent tuberculosis
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Patients who are infected with the latent form of tuberculosis (TB) show no symptoms and are not contagious, yet they pose the biggest challenge when it comes to controlling the disease. The latest study by Dr. Dick Menzies ...
Genes and the environment interact to influence adolescent alcohol use
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Adolescent alcohol use and behavior problems are influenced by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. A new study has found that socio-regional factors moderate the importance of genetic influences on early ...
Using networks to map the social lives of animals
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Sep 02, 2008 |
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Dr Dick James from the University's Department of Physics has released a practical guide for biologists explaining how social network analysis, a method used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, ...
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