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Research Discovers Link Between Epilepsy And Autism

insciences — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:51:43 -0500

Our researchers have found a previously undiscovered link between epileptic seizures and the signs of autism in adults. Dr SallyAnn Wakeford from the Department of Psychology revealed that adults with epilepsy were more likely to have higher trai...

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Associated With Type 2 Diabetes

insciences — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:47:34 -0500

Neuherberg, Germany, May 16, 2013. The presence of posttraumatic stress disorder is significantly associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. This is the finding of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Hospi...

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H1N1 Discovered In Marine Mammals

insciences — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:40:20 -0500

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published today, May 15, in ...

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Study IDs Key Protein For Cell Death

insciences — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:32:11 -0500

Findings may offer a new way to kill cancer cells by forcing them into an alternative programmed-death pathway. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis...

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Making Frequency-Hopping Radios Practical

insciences — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:27:06 -0500

New hardware could lead to wireless devices that identify and exploit unused transmission frequencies, using radio spectrum much more efficiently. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The way in which radio spectrum is currently allocated to different wire...

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Proteome Atlas For The Tuberculosis Pathogen

insciences — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:22:21 -0500

Researchers from ETH Zurich have mapped the coordinates for all the proteins of the tuberculosis pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Thanks to this “atlas”, scientists are now able to easily find and accurately measure every protein of thi...

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Membrane Remodeling: Where Yoga Meets Cell Biology

insciences — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:22:14 -0500

NIH-funded study reveals protein, fatty molecules and cellular energy work together during endocytosis. Cells ingest proteins and engulf bacteria by a gymnastic, shape-shifting process called endocytosis. Researchers at the National Institutes o...

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Stem Cells For Metastasis Found In Blood Of Breast Cancer Patients

insciences — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:43:14 -0500

For the first time, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg have characterized cancer cells that can initiate metastasis in the blood of breast cancer patients. These ...

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Estrogen Fuels Autoimmune Liver Damage

insciences — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:14:47 -0500

Johns Hopkins research in mice unravels mystery behind sex disparities in drug-induced hepatitis. A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study in mice may help explain why women are more prone than men to a form of liver damage by implicating the...

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Maternal Diet Sets Up Junk Food Addiction In Babies

insciences — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:27:53 -0500

Research from the University of Adelaide suggests that mothers who eat junk food while pregnant have already programmed their babies to be addicted to a high fat, high sugar diet by the time they are weaned. In laboratory studies, the researche...

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Antidepressants Linked With Increased Risks After Surgery

insciences — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:25:22 -0500

Bleeding, Transfusion, Readmission, Death More Likely After Taking SSRIs. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) – among the most widely prescribed antidepressant medications – are associated with increased risk of bleeding, transfu...

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Aggressive Surgery For Nonfatal Skin Cancers Might Not Be Best For All Elderly Patients

insciences — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:10:08 -0500

New UCSF Study Urges Doctors to Consider Patient Risks, Benefits and Preferences When Treating Low-Risk Skin Cancers. Surgery is often recommended for skin cancers, but older, sicker patients can endure complications as a result and may not live ...

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The Earth’S Centre Is 1000 Degrees Hotter Than Previously Thought

insciences — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:15:22 -0500

Scientists have determined the temperature near the Earth’s centre to be 6000 degrees Celsius, 1000 degrees hotter than in a previous experiment run 20 years ago. These measurements confirm geophysical models that the temperature difference b...

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World First Treatment Helps With Lazy Eye

insciences — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:18:31 -0500

Playing Tetris under controlled conditions may be a cure for lazy eye in both children and adults. The world-first Tetris experiments were devised by vision scientist, Dr Ben Thompson from The University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research...

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Fingerprinting Malaria Parasite Drug Resistance

insciences — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:35:58 -0500

New genome sequencing technologies provide insight into emerging artemisinin resistance and a novel way to track this public health threat A worldwide collaboration of researchers has shown that resistance to the frontline antimalarial d...

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Mapping Of Cancer Cell Fuel Pumps Paves The Way For New Drugs

insciences — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:26:53 -0500

For the first time, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have managed to obtain detailed images of the way in which the transport protein GLUT transports sugars into cells. Since tumours are highly dependent on the transportation of nutrients i...

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Conversion From Bad Fat To Good Fat

insciences — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:21:03 -0500

ETH scientists have shown for the first time that white and brown fat cells can directly interconvert in a living organism from one type to the other. This finding challenges the prevailing belief that white and brown fat cells arise solely fro...

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Why Does Smallpox Vaccine Shield Some, Not Others? It'S In The Genes, Mayo Finds

insciences — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:07:15 -0500

ROCHESTER, Minn. — How well people are protected by the smallpox vaccine depends on more than the quality of the vaccination: individual genes can alter their response, Mayo Clinic research shows. The findings, gathered using sophisticated genom...

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Understanding Abnormal Proteins In Degenerative Diseases

insciences — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:55:57 -0500

New IBN Peptides May Help Researchers Combat Alzheimer’s, Diabetes and Cancer Singapore, April 22, 2013 – Amyloids, or fibrous aggregates of abnormally folded proteins, are a common feature in degenerative diseases such as Alzhei...

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Study Shows Reproductive Effects Of Pesticide Exposure Span Generations

insciences — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:42:26 -0500

North Carolina State University researchers studying aquatic organisms called Daphnia have found that exposure to a chemical pesticide has impacts that span multiple generations – causing the so-called “water fleas” to produce more male o...

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