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Inheritance of hormonal disorder marked by excessive insulin in daughters

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elevated levels of insulin could be an early sign that girls whose mothers suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome -- or PCOS -- may also be susceptible to the disease, according to gynecologists who have found evidence of ...





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Deaf children use hands to invent own way of communicating

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deaf children are able to develop a language-like gesture system by making up hand signs and using homemade systems to increase their communication as they grow, just as children with conventional spoken language, research ...


New technique to study the genetics of breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new technique to study genetic changes that can lead to breast cancer could be one step closer.


'Deaf by God' tried in Old Bailey records

Other Sciences / Other

created May 05, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Deaf people on trial were granted the right to an interpreter as early as 1725, according to Old Bailey records examined by UCL (University College London) scientists. The use of family and friends to interpret court proceedings ...


Scientists devise approach that stops HIV at earliest stage of infection

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 0

Their study, which appears this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), may re-energize attempts to create a preventive/therapeutic vaccine against HIV, say the authors. ...


Professor says current meteor shower proves theory of calendar's origin

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stargazers are in for a unique treat tonight: the planet Earth will pass through the debris train of the Swift-Tuttle comet this evening which astronomers call the Perseid meteor shower. ...


Studying a Star Before it is Born

Studying a Star Before it is Born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first phase of a star's formation are thought to begin deep inside a natal cloud of gas and dust. In the earliest stages, material coalesces under the influence of gravity into so-called ...


Killer fungus threatening amphibians

Killer fungus threatening amphibians

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amphibians like frogs and toads have existed for 360 million years and survived when the dinosaurs didn't, but a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many of them extinct, according to an article in the ...


Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.


Physical problems are 1st Alzheimer's sign

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created May 23, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 0

The first signs of dementia and Alzheimer's disease are physical rather than mental, Washington researchers say of a study that produced surprising results.


Singapore scientists discover widely sought molecular key to understanding p53 tumor suppressor gene

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have determined how the master gene regulator p53 could switch a gene in a cell "on" or "off" by recognizing specific sequences of nucleotides in the gene's DNA.



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