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Exercise helps prevent age-related brain changes in older adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Older adults who exercise regularly show increased cerebral blood flow and a greater number of small blood vessels in the brain, according to findings presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North ...





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High blood pressure linked to memory problems in middle age

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High blood pressure is linked to memory problems in people over 45, according to research published in the August 25, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.


Measuring and modeling blood flow in malaria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When people have malaria, they are infected with Plasmodium parasites, which enter the body from the saliva of a mosquito, infect cells in the liver, and then spread to red blood cells. Inside the blood cells, the parasites ...


Blocking protein may prevent blinding disease

Blocking protein may prevent blinding disease

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blocking a protein that battles infection may help thwart a common cause of vision loss in chronic diseases such as diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.


ID3 provides career counseling for blood progenitors, driving the creation of gamma-delta T cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Their findings, published today in the journal Immunity, de ...


Researchers find possible use for the vine that ate the South

Chemistry / Other

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

Kudzu, the fast-growing vine that has gobbled up some 10 million acres in the Southeast, may prove to be a valuable dietary supplement for metabolic syndrome, a condition that affects 50 million Americans, say researchers ...


Reactive oxygen in fruit flies acts as a cell signalling mechanism for immune response

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, health conscious people have been taking antioxidants to reduce the levels of reactive oxygen in their blood and prevent the DNA damage done by free radicals, which are the result of oxidative ...


Small peptide found to stop lung cancer tumor growth in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

In new animal research done by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists have discovered a treatment effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size of lung cancer tumors, one ...


Why fish oils help and how they could help even more

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 9

New research from Queen Mary, University of London and Harvard Medical School has revealed precisely why taking fish oils can help with conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.


Fluidigm Chip

Prostate Cancer Treated Using Microfluidics Technology

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing rare tumor cells in patient's blood, using a special microchip, doctors would be able to predict how a patient will respond to drug treatment. By using microfluidics technology ...


Blood vessels might predict prostate cancer behavior

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A diagnosis of prostate cancer raises the question for patients and their physicians as to how the tumor will behave. Will it grow quickly and aggressively and require continuous treatment, or slowly, allowing therapy and ...



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