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Project to improve radiotherapy planning

A collaborative project between physicists, oncologists and computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, launched last month, will develop improved tools for the planning of high precision radiotherapy. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists reveal how females store sperm for decades

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that all sorts of females – from birds to reptiles to insects – have a nifty trick to prolong the lifespan of sperm, letting them store it for weeks, months ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Preoperative MRI may reduce risk of nerve damage in prostate cancer surgeries

Preoperative MRI helps surgeons make more informed decisions about nerve-sparing procedures in men with prostate cancer, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Silver bullet' supplement could slow brain aging

Professor David Rollo and a group of researchers at McMaster may have found a "silver bullet" when it comes to slowing the aging of the brain.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Aging-related degeneration caused by defects of energy metabolism in tissue stem cells?

Aging-related tissue degeneration can be caused by mitochondrial dysfunction in tissue stem cells. The research group of Professor Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara in Helsinki University, with their collaborators in Max Planck ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers make less carcinogenic cigarette

(Medical Xpress) -- Though emphasizing that quitting is the best remedy to combat health problems for smokers, Cornell researchers have found a way to make cigarettes less toxic.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists identify an innate function of vitamin E

It's rubbed on the skin to reduce signs of aging and consumed by athletes to improve endurance but scientists now have the first evidence of one of vitamin E's normal body functions.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Antioxidant has potential in the Alzheimer's fight, researchers find

(Medical Xpress) -- When you cut an apple and leave it out, it turns brown. Squeeze the apple with lemon juice, an antioxidant, and the process slows down.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Report: More than half of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities were American citizens

Sixty percent of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities between January 2009 and April 2011 were American citizens, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The study of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Prostate cancer surgery better at teaching hospitals

Prostate cancer patients who undergo radical prostatectomy get better results at teaching hospitals than at non-academic medical institutions, according to the findings of an international study led by researchers at Henry ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Strawberries protect the stomach from alcohol

In an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the st ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 2

Neurbiological mechanism behind anorexia/self starvation found in mouse

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found inborn traits in mice, which might explain why some individuals are more prone to develop anorexia/self starvation than others. A study showing that genetic defects in the cells ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New studies highlight risks of vitamin supplements

New research is prompting a fresh look at the value of vitamin supplements, with some surprising results indicating that taking too many supplements of some could be harmful.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Study finds clue to birth defects in babies of mothers with diabetes

In a paper published today in Diabetologia, a team at Joslin Diabetes Center, headed by Mary R. Loeken, PhD, has identified the enzyme AMP kinase (AMPK) as key to the molecular mechanism that significantly increases the ri ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Immune mechanism blocks inflammation generated by oxidative stress

Conditions like atherosclerosis and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) -- the most common cause of blindness among the elderly in western societies -- are strongly linked to increased oxidative stress, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast