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Researchers identify potential new weapon in battle against HIV infection

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered a potentially important new resistance factor in the battle against HIV: blood types. An international team of researchers from Canadian Blood Services, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) ...





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Corneal transplant technique shows promise in children

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For infants and children with blinding diseases of the cornea, a sophisticated new corneal transplantation technique offers the hope of improving vision while overcoming the technical difficulty and low success rate of traditional ...


Mice with disabled gene that helps turn carbs into fat stay lean despite feasting on high-carb diet

Mice with disabled gene that helps turn carbs into fat stay lean despite feasting on high-carb diet

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a gene that plays a critical regulatory role in the process of converting dietary carbohydrates to fat. In a new study, ...


FDA approves blood typing tests

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed 14 new tests for determining a person's blood type.


Packages of care for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries

Medicine & Health / Health

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

In the latest article in PLoS Medicine's series proposing the delivery of "packages of care" for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the tr ...


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Electric fish plug in to communicate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as people plug in to computers, smart phones and electric outlets to communicate, electric fish communicate by quickly plugging special channels into their cells to generate electrical ...


Tumor mutations can predict chemo success

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by MIT cancer biologists shows that the interplay between two key genes that are often defective in tumors determines how cancer cells respond to chemotherapy.


ISU researchers' findings bring hope for possible Parkinson’s disease cure

New findings bring hope for possible Parkinson's disease cure

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential key to possibly cure Parkinson's disease and are looking for others.



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