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Sunlight could stop short-sightedness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A spreading pandemic of myopia among the world’s urban children may be avoided if children spend at least two to three hours each day outdoors.





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COMPASS points to weight loss

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recruiting families with overweight children for a study to help those kids, and their parents, lose weight. The two-year study, ...


New research could advance research field critical to personalized medicine

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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It's the ultimate goal in the treatment of cancer: tailoring a person's therapy based on his or her genetic makeup. While a lofty goal, scientists are steadily moving forward, rapidly exploiting new technologies. Researchers ...


Sick of blurred identity, US plant pathologists formed own society

Biology / Other

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Spinach with fungus, malnourished cabbage, spots on cauliflower and peaches injured by frost. No matter the malady, a group of people who fashioned themselves as "plant doctors" assembled for the first time 100 years ago ...


Antibody finds, wipes out prostate cancer: study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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US researchers have found an antibody that hunts down prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage, a study showed Monday.


Overweight men at higher risk of heart attack, stroke, premature death

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Overweight or obese middle-aged men are at a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and premature death — even if they don’t have the metabolic syndrome, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of ...


New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus

New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new rapid way to test severity of the devastating citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in citrus trees has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Parlier, Calif. The ...


Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture (AP)

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture

Space & Earth / Environment

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(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.


First molars provide insight into evolution of great apes, humans

First molars provide insight into evolution of apes, humans

Biology / Evolution

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by two scientists at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in the Dec. 28 ...


Simplest bacteria unravelled at the cellular level

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Even the simplest cell appears to be far more complex than researchers had imagined. In a series of three articles in the journal Science, researchers including Vera van Noort at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...


Schizophrenia mouse model should improve understanding and treatment of the disorder

Schizophrenia mouse model should improve understanding and treatment of the disorder

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Scientists have created what appears to be a schizophrenic mouse by reducing the inhibition of brain cells involved in complex reasoning and decisions about appropriate social behavior.



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