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High novelty-seeking and low avoidance of harm contribute to alcohol dependence

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personality factors can influence the development of alcohol dependence (AD). Researchers examined a group of AD individuals with the inactive form of aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) - persons who would normally have a ...





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Most inactive physicians retain licenses, return to practice without competency review

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One in eight physicians have been inactive in the state where they are licensed for at least a year, and most states do not require them to undergo competency tests or retraining when they return to actively practicing medicine.


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Could new discovery about a shape-shifting protein lead to a mighty 'morpheein' bacteria fighter?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 20, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A small molecule that locks an essential enzyme in an inactive form could one day form the basis of a new class of unbeatable, species-specific antibiotics, according to researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center.


Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 1

Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer ...


Staying active and drinking moderately is the key to a long life

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

People who drink moderate amounts of alcohol and are physically active have a lower risk of death from heart disease and other causes than people who don’t drink at all, according to new research. People who neither drink ...


Molecular mechanisms of vision

Beginning to see the light

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have detailed the active form of a protein which they hope will enhance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of vision, and advance drug design.


Smoking during pregnancy may impair thyroid function of mom and fetus

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is associated with potentially harmful changes in both maternal and fetal thyroid function, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical En ...


Scientists 'see' how HIV matures into an infection

Chemistry /

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

After improving the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), researchers at the University of Missouri actually watched the HIV-1 protease mature from an inactive form into an active infection. This process has never ...


Finely tuned WspRs help bacteria beat body by building biofilm

Finely tuned WspRs help bacteria beat body by building biofilm

Biology /

created Mar 25, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bacteria are particularly harmful to human health when they band together to form a biofilm—a sheet composed of many individual bacteria glued together—because this can allow them to escape from both antibiotics ...


New study rewrites textbook on key genetic phenomenon

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Because females carry two copies of the X chromosome to males' one X and one Y, they harbor a potentially toxic double dose of the over 1000 genes that reside on the X chromosome.


Toxicity mechanism identified for Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Neurologists have observed for decades that Lewy bodies, clumps of aggregated proteins inside cells, appear in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.



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