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Researchers discover antibody receptor identity, propose renaming immune-system gene

Researchers discover antibody receptor identity, propose renaming immune-system gene

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have uncovered the genetic identity of a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody, a discovery that sheds new light on ...


Carvedilol shown to have unique characteristics among beta blockers

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity.


Research spawns new discoveries showing how crops survive drought

Research spawns new discoveries showing how crops survive drought

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has greatly accelerated scientists' knowledge on how plants and crops can ...


New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic

New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ON ...


Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of ...


Promising pharmaceutical agents emerge as sports doping products

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their ...


New understanding about mechanism for cell death after stroke leads to possible therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

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Scientists at the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, have uncovered new information about the mechanism by which ...


Study links genetic variation to individual empathy, stress levels

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In the first study of its kind, a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter oxytocin's ...


Scientists find new link between insulin and core body temperature

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a direct link between insulin—a hormone long associated with metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes—and core body temperature. While ...


Inhibition of GRK2 is protective against acute cardiac stress injuries

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inhibition of a protein known to contribute to heart failure also appears to be protective of the heart in more acute cardiac stress injury, namely ischemia reperfusion, according to two studies conducted at the Center for ...



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