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Pregnancy-related hormonal changes linked to increased risk of restless legs syndrome

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that the elevation in estradiol levels that occurs during pregnancy is more pronounced in pregnant women with restless legs syndrome (RLS) than in controls.





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Study: The color red impacts achievement

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (22) | comments 0

U.S. and Germany scientists have discovered the color red can affect how people function, keeping them from performing at their best on tests.


Cancer-fighting agent found in beer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 31, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (61) | comments 2

A key ingredient of beer may contain a cancer-fighting substance, a German study indicated.


Munich scientists study bystander effect

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created Dec 06, 2005 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (22) | comments 0

A Munich, Germany, study indicates the larger the group watching someone in trouble in a public place, the less likely anyone will offer to help.


Inflammation directly linked to colon cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

While chronic inflammation is widely believed to be a predisposing factor for colon cancer, the exact mechanisms linking these conditions have remained elusive. Scientists at the Melbourne Branch of the international Ludwig ...


Robot Asks Directions

Robot Navigates City by Asking for Directions

Electronics / Robotics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- ACE the robot was sent on a mission by its German inventors: to find its way to the Marienplatz in the center of Munich, about 1.5 km away from its starting point at the Technical University ...


Researcher Finds Early Photon Imaging Detects Lung Cancer

Researcher Finds Early Photon Imaging Detects Lung Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel, high-resolution fluorescence imaging system may be used to detect lung cancer at early stages. According to a report recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...


Oxygen key to 'cut and paste' of genes

Oxygen key to 'cut and paste' of genes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An oxygen-sensitive enzyme has been found to play a key role in how genes create the many different proteins that make up our bodies.


Birth of a star predicted

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless ...


Italy sets up new iceman lab

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 13, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new research center is being developed in Bolzano, Italy, to lead research into the famed Iceman mummy.


Cancer cells in blood can identify risk of recurrence in breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 24, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer cells circulating in the blood, or circulating tumour cells (CTCs), are known to be associated with a bad prognosis in women with metastatic breast cancer. Now, for the first time, a group of scientists have shown ...



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