Monday, November 7th, 2011
Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered that an active ingredient in the Persian spice saffron may be a potential treatment for diseases involving neuroinflammation, such as multiple sclerosis. Chris Power and a team of researchers in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry recently published their findings in ...
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Cancer survival studies should treat questions about how well people are surviving with the same importance as how long: putting quality of life on an equal footing with survival years, say researchers writing in a scientific journal this month. Effective and reliable quality of life measures offer increasingly ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
When an egg cell is being formed, the cellular machinery which separates chromosomes is extremely imprecise at fishing them out of the cell's interior, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have discovered. The unexpected degree of trial-and-error involved in this process could explain why errors ...
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
As the population ages and obesity and diabetes increase, more people suffer from noncardiac vascular diseases. In the July/August issue of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, published by Elsevier, a series of articles from recognized experts on key topics in vascular disease and endovascular medicine provide an insightful compendium of the ...
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Insectivorous bats save American agriculture billions of dollars a years through natural pest-control, but a new wildlife disease and getting killed by wind turbines is threatening populations of these hardworking and useful creatures, according to a new analysis published online in the journal Science this week. Bats are ...
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