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Critical protein helps mend damaged DNA

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In order to preserve our DNA, cells have developed an intricate system for monitoring and repairing DNA damage. Yet precisely how the initial damage signal is converted into a repair response remains unclear. Researchers ...


Alzheimer's disease may protect against cancer and vice versa

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People who have Alzheimer's disease may be less likely to develop cancer, and people who have cancer may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the December 23, 2009, online issue ...


Heme channel found

Heme channel found

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In some ways a cell in your body or an organelle in that cell is like an ancient walled town. Life inside either depends critically on the intelligence of the gatekeepers.


Learning styles debunked

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone— for ...


Genetic link to heart failure

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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

A team of researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, has identified a group of 12 genetic variants in the HSPB7 gene that is associated with heart failure in humans.


Imaging test detects Alzheimer's disease that is likely to progress

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Early Alzheimer's disease detected by a compound that binds to brain plaques appears likely to progress into symptomatic Alzheimer's disease with dementia, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Neurology, one of ...


Study explores 'garbage disposal' role of VCP and implications for degenerative disease

Study explores 'garbage disposal' role of VCP and implications for degenerative disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's important to finish what you start, say Jeong-Sun Ju and researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. In the December 14, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Ju et al. ...


26 operations, 13 kidneys: hope to few with little (AP)

26 operations, 13 kidneys: hope to few with little

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants ...


Moderate weight loss in obese people improves heart function

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obese patients who lost a moderate amount of weight by eating less and exercising more improved their cardiovascular health, says a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.


Personalities judged by physical appearance alone

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Observers were able to accurately judge some aspects of a stranger's personality from looking at photographs, according to a study in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSBP), the official monthl ...



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