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Music tuition can help children improve reading skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically ...





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Tracking Virus Resistance Genes in Watermelon Made Easier

Tracking Virus Resistance Genes in Watermelon Made Easier

Biology / Biotechnology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding watermelon genes that confer resistance to the devastating zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) has just been made easier, thanks to molecular markers developed by Agricultural Research ...


CU Students to Build Tiny Spacecraft to Observe 'Space Weather' Environment

CU Students to Build Tiny Spacecraft to Observe 'Space Weather' Environment

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 6 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build a tiny spacecraft to observe energetic particles in space that should ...


COMPASS points to weight loss

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recruiting families with overweight children for a study to help those kids, and their parents, lose weight. The two-year study, ...


New research could advance research field critical to personalized medicine

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's the ultimate goal in the treatment of cancer: tailoring a person's therapy based on his or her genetic makeup. While a lofty goal, scientists are steadily moving forward, rapidly exploiting new technologies. Researchers ...


Overweight men at higher risk of heart attack, stroke, premature death

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Overweight or obese middle-aged men are at a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and premature death — even if they don’t have the metabolic syndrome, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of ...


Johns Hopkins scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry

Scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2

By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal's brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular ...


First molars provide insight into evolution of great apes, humans

First molars provide insight into evolution of apes, humans

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by two scientists at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in the Dec. 28 ...


Small molecules found to protect cells in multiple models of Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Several structurally similar small molecules appear capable of protecting cells from alpha-synuclein toxicity in multiple models of Parkinson's disease, according to Whitehead Institute researchers. Misfolded copies of the ...


Steroid injections may slow diabetes-related eye disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have found that injecting a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, directly into the eye may slow the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, a complication ...


One step closer to closure: Neuroscientists discovery key to spinal cord defects

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Spinal cord disorders like spina bifida arise during early development when future spinal cord cells growing in a flat layer fail to roll up into a tube. In the Dec. 6 issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Jo ...



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