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Blood test predicts chance of dementia
Mar 06, 2009 |
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VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium) researchers connected to the Born-Bunge Institute and the University of Antwerp discovered the amount of growth factor progranulin in blood is a predictor of Frontotemporal ...
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Fruit fly steps in to fight human disease
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Belgian scientists have successfully introduced genes coding for a variant of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, into fruit flies. CMT is one of the most common hereditary disorders of the peripheral nervous system. VIB ...
'Hidden' Van Gogh painting revealed
Jul 30, 2008 |
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A new technique allows pictures which were later painted over to be revealed once more. An international research team, including members from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the University ...
Researchers identify gene in age-related hearing loss
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, accounts for 30 percent of all hearing loss. So, why do some people lose their hearing as they get older but other people can still hear a pin drop?
Scientists say climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes of inland waters
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 01, 2009 |
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In the paper, The Boundless Carbon Cycle, published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the U.S. based Stroud Water ...
Baby born from partial uterus
Sep 14, 2006 |
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A 29-year-old Belgian woman has given birth a little more than a year after having part of her uterus removed during cancer treatment.
Ozone depletes oil seed rape productivity
Jun 29, 2009 |
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With rising ozone levels scientists have found that high ozone conditions cause a 30 percent decrease in yield and an increase in the concentration of a group of compounds with toxic effects to livestock, but anticarcinogenic ...
New research links smoking and body mass index to hearing loss
Jun 10, 2008 |
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Smoking and body mass index (BMI) are risk factors in the development of age-related hearing loss, says one of the largest-ever studies into risk factors for hearing loss – but alcohol has a protective effect. The study ...
Scientists find new cause of Alzheimer's
Apr 19, 2006 |
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Belgium researchers say they are the first to demonstrate the quantity of amyloid protein in brain cells is a major factor of Alzheimer's disease.
Oldest stars may shed light on dark matter
Sep 13, 2007 |
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The universe’s earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the universe’s matter but doesn’t interact with light, cosmologists report.
Flemish researchers develop revolutionary technology for use in plant breeding
Nov 03, 2009 |
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In collaboration with researchers at VIB-UGent and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), scientists at the BioScience business group of Bayer CropScience AG in Gent have developed a technology that can significantly increase ...
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