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Internet search process affects cognition, emotion
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search ...
How embryo movement stimulates joint formation
May 18, 2009 |
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A new study uncovers a molecular mechanism that explains why joints fail to develop in embryos with paralyzed limbs. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Developmental Cell, answers a long ...
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Physical therapists reduce disability and improve function in single-level microdiskectomy patients
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Patients who have undergone a single-level lumbar microdiskectomy for lumbar disk herniation experienced significant improvement in physical function following an intensive, progressive physical therapist guided exercise ...
Clue to mystery crustacean in parasite form
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May 20, 2008 |
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First identified in 1899, y-larvae have been one of the greatest zoological mysteries for over a century. No one has ever found an adult of these puzzling crustaceans, despite the plethora of these larvae in plankton, leading ...
In search of the original flapper... new theory on evolution of flight
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Manchester scientist has put forward a controversial new way of tackling a typically Darwinian chicken and egg question - the evolution of flapping flight in birds.
DNA 'tattoos' link adult, daughter stem cells in planarians
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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Unlike some parents, adult stem cells don't seem to mind when their daughters get a tattoo. In fact, they're willing to pass them along. Using the molecular equivalent of a tattoo on DNA that adult stem cells (ASC) pass to ...
Surgical technique helps to reanimate paralyzed faces
Jul 16, 2007 |
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A surgical technique known as temporalis tendon transfer, in conjunction with intense physical therapy before and after surgery, may help reanimate the features of those with facial paralysis, according to a report in the ...
Women with strong thigh muscles protected from symptomatic knee osteoarthritis
Aug 27, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics found that thigh muscle strength does not predict the occurrence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) uncovered in x-rays, but does predict incidence of painful ...
Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for flight - and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any known ...
Physical therapy is effective for management of low-back pain
Feb 25, 2009 |
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A new review article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons should help convince many patients with low back pain to consider physical therapy as a first line of treatment for their condit ...
Ancient predator had strongest bite of any fish, rivaling bite of large alligators and T. rex
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Nov 28, 2006 |
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It could bite a shark in two. It might have been the first “king of the beasts.” And it could teach scientists a lot about humans, because it is in the sister group of all jawed vertebrates.
Protein's effects essential for kidney-to-bladder urine transfer
Dec 26, 2006 |
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Tests of a protein's role in the immune system have revealed a surprising connection to a kidney problem that occurs in approximately one percent of all live births.
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