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Henry Ford Hospital researchers have identified for the first time two molecules that hold promise as a biomarker for measuring cartilage damage associated with osteoarthritis.Researchers...
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New brain imaging research reveals that a region of the brain important for sensing texture through touch, the parietal operculum, is also activated when someone...
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Two separate research findings have the potential to give us a much more sophisticated understanding of what goes wrong in Alzheimer's disease and what can...
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Sequencing a patient's entire genome to discover the source of his or her disease is not routine, but geneticists are getting close. A case report...
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A new way of opening blocked arteries in the brain using a removable stent system in people suffering strokes brought remarkably positive results in how...
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One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered...
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According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may...
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Tocagen Inc. today announced the publication of data showing the company's investigational treatment for high grade glioma eradicates brain tumors and provides a dramatic survival...
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Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A...
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A new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially fewer respiratory symptoms, especially coughing. The...
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An experimental device for removing blood clots in stroke patients dramatically outperformed the standard mechanical treatment, according to research presented by UCLA Stroke Center director...
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In the United States, each year, approximately 10,000 patients are affected by recurrant glioblastoma multiforme. Now, a novel investigational device - available only at...
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People who suffer a traumatic experience often don't talk about it, and many forget it over time. But not talking about something doesn't always mean...
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Refugee children have scant access to medical care and are particularly vulnerable to disease. Fresh research results from the University of Copenhagen show that just...
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Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction -- say, doing a puzzle -- relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do...
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Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision...
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In the largest and longest head-to-head comparison of two anti-clotting medications, warfarin and aspirin were similar in preventing deaths and strokes in heart failure patients...
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An innovative approach to genome screening has provided clues about rare mutations that may make people susceptible to brain aneurysms, predisposing them to brain bleeds,...
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The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his study results in...
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A new drug that showed promise in animal studies and an early clinical trial didn't improve disability among stroke patients, according to late-breaking research presented...
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The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of...
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An experimental blood clot-removing device outperformed the FDA-approved MERCI; retriever device, according to late-breaking science presented at the American Stroke Association's 2012 International Stroke Conference.
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Biologists who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas have uncovered a seldom-observed interaction between evolutionary processes.Jason Kolbe, a biologist at the University...
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The US may have its first black president and the Fortune 500 its first black female chief executive, but African American CEOs account for a...
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A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like...
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Increased exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of both food allergies and eczema in children, according to a new scientific study published this week.
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Older people feel that their health problems pose a challenge to their sense of independence, dignity and identity and sometimes the health care they are...
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Findings suggest the effects of food may be more complex. Adverse effect observed in younger women.
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Around 250 million years ago, most life on Earth was wiped out in an extinction known as the "Great Dying." A team led by University...
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Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according...
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Overloaded cellular networks can get annoying - especially when you want to watch a video on your smartphone. An optimized Radio Resource Manager will soon...
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Genetic switches called enhancers and the molecules that activate them can be used to draw a cell's family tree, EMBL scientists have found.
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A new editorial released this week offers clarity and structure on confusing drug and alcohol addiction terminology for prescribers, users and regulators.
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Data-intensive Internet applications on smartphones, tablets and laptops are more popular than ever before. The result: Traffic on the mobile network is increasing at a...
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A team of Spanish researchers have used different geological samples, extracted from the Enol lake in Asturias, to show that the Holocene, a period that...
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The problem of parasitism occurs at all levels right down to the DNA scale. Genomes may contain up to 80 percent "foreign" DNA but...
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Researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences evaluate some current methods to sequence individual genomes -- a study that serves as a...
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Free-flowing cancer cells have been mapped with unprecedented accuracy in the bloodstream of patients with prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer, using a brand new approach,...
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Johns Hopkins neurologists report success with a new means of getting rid of potentially lethal blood clots in the brain safely without cutting through easily...
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American scientists believe a new procedure to repair severed nerves could result in patients recovering in days or weeks, rather than months or years. The...
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The...
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Breastfeeding is associated with improved lung function at school age, particularly in children of asthmatic mothers, according to a new study from researchers in Switzerland...
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They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows...
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NASA satellites have watched as wind shear has torn Cyclone Iggy apart over the last day. NASA infrared satellite imagery showed that Iggy's strongest thunderstorms...
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The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is...
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Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest "magnified" galaxy...
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Small RNA-based nucleic acid drugs represent a promising new class of therapeutic agents for silencing abnormal or overactive disease-causing genes, and researchers have discovered new...
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A two-year study of high school football players suggests that concussions are likely caused by many hits over time and not from a single blow...
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Scientists have advanced a method that allowed them to single out a marine microorganism and map its genome even though the organism made up less...
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Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC...
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A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and colleagues found that traditional risk factors for stroke -- such as high cholesterol --...
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Rates of diabetes vary widely across developing countries worldwide, according to a new analysis led by Dr. Longjian Liu of Drexel University's School of Public...
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A new study by food safety researchers at Drexel University demonstrates that plasma can be an effective method for killing pathogens on uncooked poultry. The...
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Two UAHuntsville faculty members from the College of Business were published today in the prestigious journal Science for their investigation of an important issue in...
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Different kinds of lung cancer behave in different ways, suggesting they are fundamentally different diseases. According to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published...
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Double suns -- stars that are formed as a pair -- are a common phenomenon in the cosmos. But now NASA, working with a Tel...
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Most creatures face compromises when they reproduce -- the more energy they devote to having lots of babies, the less they can invest in each...
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A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management explains the best management practices for consideration and adoption by sod producers in...
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Now a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has uncovered many genes influenced by the male and female sex hormones testosterone...
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In a surprising finding with significant implications for older women, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and NYU School of Medicine...
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"Stop-and-go" dosing along with calcium and magnesium supplements reduce neurological side effects of oxaliplatin use with metastatic colon cancer patients.
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The Wildlife Conservation Society's Peru program announced today the discovery of 365 species previously undocumented in Bahuaja Sonene National Park in southeastern Peru.
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Researchers have found new evidence that confirms the significance of a protein that neuroscientists call tau to the development of Alzheimer's disease. While earlier studies...
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A recent study by Drs. Glenn Palomaki and Jacob Canick of Women & Infants Hospital shows that a new DNA test that identifies Down syndrome...
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Researchers from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with a research group in Delhi, India, have shown that growth in early childhood can affect bone...
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Stellar astrophysics helps to explain the behavior of fast rotating neutron stars in binary systems.
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Initial results of a multicenter study coordinated by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates that two investigational urine-based biomarkers are associated with prostate...
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According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when...
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An international team of scientists led by Carnegie's Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. The star...
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Being confined to bed…can have fatal consequences. Incorrect fastening of restraints and inadequate monitoring led to the death of 19 people in care. Andrea M....
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By figuring out how butterflies flutter among flowers with amazing grace and agility, researchers hope to help build small airborne robots that can mimic those...
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A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia injures the heart, even in patients without...
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A new study by NYU Langone Medical Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows novel PSA velocity risk count testing may provide a...
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An open-label study of rituximab, a monoclonal antibody for human CD20, was shown to be safe in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis who had an...
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Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research...
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Cell biologists at Johns Hopkins have identified key steps in how certain molecules alter a cell's skeletal shape and drive the cell's movement.
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With pizza, nachos and other cheesy dishes on the menu for an estimated 60 percent of Super Bowl Sunday football fans, the American Chemical Society,...
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What would you do if you found out that the roads you drive on could cause cancer? This is the reality that residents face in...
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Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which...
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Most studies have found that binge drinking is associated with a loss of alcohol's protective effect against ischemic heart disease and most studies have found...
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A professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a team of researchers have developed a system that taps...
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Researchers at the University of Dundee have identified fexinidazole as a possible, much-needed, new treatment for the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis.
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Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to two percent, according to a new study...
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Scientists working with Professor Bernd Kaina of the Institute of Toxicology at the Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have demonstrated for the first...
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A new protocol, IPv6, is being introduced across the Web. Researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid who are participating in the Trilogy project have...
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene...
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The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective...
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In a paper published Feb. 3 in Cell, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute identified a molecular switch that controls the protein Activating Transcription Factor...
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Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Health, and collaborating cancer physicians have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and...
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A new study by researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus and Pace University is critical of the widespread use of computerized neuropsychological tests in decisions...
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Around the world coral reefs are facing threats brought by climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures. While warming has been the primary focus...
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Scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain's executive hub....
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Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from...
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Sexually active adults aged 45 and over are being encouraged to pay more thought to safe sex in line with recent figures showing that STIs...
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It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. However people with aMCI are...
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Stroke experts from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will present research updates at the International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Feb. 1 through...
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Researchers are turning to plants and solar power in the search for new sources of renewable and sustainable energy that can support the transition from...
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National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, a naturally occurring chemical found in red wine and other plant products, may...
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Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought -- 1.2 million -- but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat...
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Intermittent exercise with and without low oxygen concentrations can improve insulin sensitivity in type two diabetics, however exercise while under hypoxic conditions provides greater improvements...