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Athapaskan Language Family

Y chromosome study sheds light on Athapaskan migration to southwest US

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A large-scale genetic study of native North Americans offers new insights into the migration of a small group of Athapaskan natives from their subarctic home in northwest North America to the southwestern ...





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Henry Ford Hospital study: Diverticulosis not associated with higher incidence of polyps

Diverticulosis not associated with higher incidence of polyps

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Henry Ford Hospital study questions the need for aggressive screening for colonic polyps in patients with diverticulosis.


High mortality rates may explain small body size

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study suggests that high mortality rates in small-bodied people, commonly known as pygmies, may be part of the reason for their small stature. The study, by Jay Stock and Andrea Migliano, both of the University of Cambridge, ...


Preventative brain radiation for lung cancer patients: Benefits and risks

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study is taking a closer look at the benefits versus risks for lung cancer patients to undergo preventative brain radiation therapy as a means to stop cancer from spreading to the brain.


Researchers discover RNA repair system in bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In new papers appearing this month in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois biochemistry professor Raven H. Huang and his colleagues describe the first RNA repair system to be ...


Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly

Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers ...


'On the origin of nematodes' -- A phylogenetic tree of the world’s most numerous group of animals

'On the origin of nematodes' -- A phylogenetic tree of the world’s most numerous group of animals

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

Scientists from Wageningen University and Research Centre have published the largest nematode Phylogenetic Tree to date in cooperation with the Dutch Plant Protection Service (PD) and the University of California ...


Left side grafting is procedure of choice for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study by doctors at Shinshu University, School of Medicine, in Japan determined that left side grafting has lower risk to donors compared to grafts taken from the right lobe, and it appears to be the procedure of ...


Old method of heart bypass better than 'off-pump'

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. Now the first big test of this method has ...


Growing Cartilage from Stem Cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering ...


Developmental drug may help bone fractures heal after radiation exposure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A drug currently under development by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine may help bone fractures heal more quickly after radiation exposure, according to a study by Pitt researchers. The study's results will ...



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