Monday, November 7th, 2011
If the changing seasons are making it chilly inside your house, you might just turn the heater on. That's a reasonable response to a cold environment: switching to a toastier and more comfortable state until it warms up outside. And so it's no surprise that biologists have long thought cells ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
According to a study published online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, physicians can determine who is likely to have a higher risk of severe high altitude illness (SHAI) by measuring specific, exercise-related responses. They also discovered risk ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a potential new drug target for Multiple Sclerosis that could prevent physical disability associated with the disease, once a new drug is developed. In the first phase of MS, those with the condition have lots of inflammation of their brain cells, ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
A simple blood test could someday quantify a smoker's lung toxicity and danger of heart disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. smoke, and smoking-related medical expenses and loss of productivity exceeds $167 billion annually, according to the Centers for ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Instinctive mothering behavior towards care of newborns has long been recognized as a phenomenon in humans and animals, but now research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has shown that motherhood is associated with the acquisition of a host of new behaviors that are driven, at least in part, by ...
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