News tagged with rhythms of life

Clockwork plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do plants tell the time and the passing of the seasons? Plant scientists are enlisting the help of engineers in their quest to uncover the rhythms of circadian clocks.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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MS drug prevented fatal heart condition in lab study

A drug used to treat multiple sclerosis may also be effective at preventing and reversing the leading cause of heart attack, a new study has found.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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

New appropriate use criteria reflect latest scientific data on restoring blood flow to heart

Updated appropriate use criteria released today offer detailed guidance on when to use an invasive procedure to improve blood flow to the heart and how to choose the best procedure for each patient. The clinical scenarios, ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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Cardiologists suggest patient-centered approach to replacing implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted. But are all those replacements ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Middle-aged men with upper-normal blood pressure at risk for AF

Middle-aged men at the upper end of normal blood pressure had an elevated risk for atrial fibrillation later in life, according to new research in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: Babies try lip-reading in learning to talk

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mutation in gene that's critical for human development linked to arrhythmia

Arrhythmia is a potentially life-threatening problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat, causing it to go too fast, too slow or to beat irregularly. Arrhythmia affects millions of people worldwide.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Treating sleep problems may be important in schizophrenia

(Medical Xpress) -- A study of schizophrenia patients has found profound disruptions in their sleep patterns, with half also having irregular body clocks that are out of synch with the pattern of night and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Snipping key nerves may help life threatening heart rhythms

What do sweaty palms and abnormal heart rhythms have in common? Both can be initiated by the nervous system during adrenaline-driven "flight or fight" stress reaction when the body senses danger.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Copepods eat their own weight belts

Scientists have solved the mystery of how tiny marine crustaceans called copepods regulate the rhythms of their life-cycle.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The man with the golden brain

What’s the point of a brain? A fundamental question that has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain controls and predicts movement. In a recent talk for TED, Wolpert explores ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 8


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