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Potential for incorrect relationship identification in new forensic familial searching techniques

New research suggests that unrelated individuals may be mistakenly identified as genetic family members due to inaccurate genetic assumptions. This is particularly relevant when considering familial searching: a new technique ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

With optimal conversations, young couples experience less relationship stress, higher satisfaction: study

(Medical Xpress) -- The happiest young couples may be involved in a different kind of engagement. Young adults who easily engage in rewarding conversations with their partners are less likely to hold onto anger and stress ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ESC cardiologists 'intrigued' by novel approach to heart failure

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) welcomes an "intriguing" study, published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, featuring a completely novel approach for improving endothelial function in hea ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Science to help rice growers affected by Japan's tsunami

Under a year since a huge tsunami inundated paddy fields in Japan with salty sludge, scientists are near to developing locally-adapted, salt-tolerant rice. Following a Japan-UK research collaboration, a new ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Gender differences in liver cancer risk explained by small changes in genome

Men are four times more likely to develop liver cancer compared to women, a difference attributed to the sex hormones androgen and estrogen. Although this gender difference has been known for a long time, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New test offers greater accuracy in early detection of colorectal cancer

Results of two studies suggest that a new, investigational colorectal cancer screening test developed in a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and Exact Sciences Inc. of Madison, Wis., is highly accurate and significantly more ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer algorithm used to identify bladder cancer marker

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an innovative mathematical technique to find markers that effectively predict how deadly a cancer will be. The discovery, which in this case concerned bladder ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find new, noninvasive way to identify lymph node metastasis

Using two cell surface markers found to be highly expressed in breast cancer lymph node metastases, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, working with colleagues at other institutions, have developed targeted, fluorescent ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanotechnology researchers develop new strategy to deliver chemotherapy to prostate cancer cells

Honing chemotherapy delivery to cancer cells is a challenge for many researchers. Getting the cancer cells to take the chemotherapy "bait" is a greater challenge. But perhaps such a challenge has not been met with greater ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop drought-tolerant alfalfa

With much of the Southwest struggling with drought, many ranchers and dairy farmers are having difficulty finding enough hay for their livestock and making tough choices: pay up to twice as much as last year and ship it in ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Molecular markers can predict spread of cancer, guide treatment

Molecular markers found in cancer cells that have spread from a primary tumor to a limited number of distant sites can help physicians predict which patients with metastatic cancer will benefit from aggressive, targeted radiation ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lawson research team working to personalize cancer care

The Lawson Translational Cancer Research Team (LTCRT) of the Lawson Health Research Institute is one of five groups participating in a new study that seeks to personalize cancer drug treatment.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study unlocks origins of blood stem cells

A research team led by Nancy Speck, PhD, professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has discovered a molecular marker for the immediate ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unique genetic marker may improve detection of recurrent ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is a major health concern for women and the identification of sensitive biomarkers for early detection and/or monitoring of disease recurrence is of high clinical relevance.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny genetic variation can predict ovarian cancer outcome

Yale Cancer Center researchers have shown that a tiny genetic variation predicts chances of survival and response to treatment for patients with ovarian cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast