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Clinical Trial Examines Drug?s Potential for Protecting the Optic Nerve

Clinical Trial Examines Drug's Potential for Protecting the Optic Nerve

Medicine & Health / Research

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Acute optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve, doesn't occur all that often. But for those who experience it, the vision loss, pain and nerve damage that often result are no small ...


Successful stem cell therapy for treatment of eye disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) in the journal Stem Cells reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" (LSCD) ...


Cognitive therapy key to tackling depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from The University of Western Ontario shows why people suffering from depression may have a far greater hope of finding lasting relief by receiving cognitive therapy, rather than simply taking ...


Mystery of golden ratio explained

Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (24) | comments 8

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...


Acupuncture reduces hot flashes, improves sex drive for breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Not only is acupuncture as effective as drug therapy at reducing hot flashes in breast cancer patients, it has the added benefit of potentially increasing a woman's sex drive and improving her sense of well-being, according ...


Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren't always best

Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren't always best

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks to high-speed video cameras - technology the BBC uses to ...


Intensive therapy for narrowed arteries linked to fewer heart events

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intensive medical therapy, including aggressive control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels, for patients with asymptomatic plaque buildup in their carotid arteries (which supply blood to the brain) appears to be associated ...


More blood vessels in hormone-resistant prostate tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University ...


Engineers develop machine that visually inspects and sorts strawberry plants

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect and grade harvested strawberry plants ...


Do computers understand art?

Do computers understand art?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition ...



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