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New Sperm shaker set to improve IVF success rates

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have developed a ground-breaking method for testing the quality of a sperm before it is used in IVF and increase the chances of conception.


Volcanoes cool the tropics, say researchers

Volcanoes cool the tropics, say researchers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics—but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising ...





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Cause of common chronic diarrhea revealed in new research

Cause of common chronic diarrhea revealed in new research

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A common type of chronic diarrhoea may be caused by a hormone deficiency, according to new research published in the November issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The author ...


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Researchers sequence swine genome

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A global collaborative has produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig, an achievement that will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution.


Animals now picking up bugs from people, study shows

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Globalisation and industrialisation are causing diseases to spread from humans to animals, a study has shown.


Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders

Study: Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why did Barack Obama win the US election and did the fact he is over six feet tall influence the voters? The authors of a paper published in Current Biology this month argue that due to 'a ...


Fetal study highlights impact of stress on male fertility

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exposure to a combination of excess stress hormones and chemicals while in the womb could affect a man's fertility in later life, a study suggests.


Scientists develop novel method to generate functional hepatocytes for drug testing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have for the first time produced liver cells from adult skin cells using the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology.


Cell study explains why younger people more at risk of vCJD

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Specific cells within the immune system could help explain why younger people are more susceptible to variant CJD, scientists believe.


US asthma researchers more open than UK scientists to the inclusion of ethnic minorities

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New findings reveal a large gap between US and UK researchers in terms of policy, attitudes, practices and experiences in relation to including ethnic minorities in asthma research. The study, published this week in the open ...


NASA flies to Antarctica for largest airborne polar ice survey

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA begins a series of flights Oct. 15 to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ...


New link found between osteoporosis and coeliac disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People with coeliac disease may develop osteoporosis because their immune system attacks their bone tissue, a new study has shown.



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