Location: Wales, United Kingdom
BETHESDA, Md. (Feb. 24, 2009) − When participants performed a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested, a new study finds.
The...
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Location: James Cook University, Australia
You can tell when a fish has changed sex just by looking at its ears.
At least, Australian marine biologists Stefan Walker and Mark McCormick can - just having pioneered a new breakthrough for studying the behavior and productivity of fish...
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Location: CNRS, France
Researchers at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, better
known by its initials, CNRS, is the largest body of ...) offer a surprising
idea: sexuality would have found its origin in a strategy (The strategy - from
the Greek...
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Location: Georgia, United States
Abstract: Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prosthetic
vein valve to help improve the lives of those suffering from a condition known
as chronic venous insufficiency. The condition, which affects more...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for
everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But
researchers at the University of...
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae
that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously,
these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring the next big breakthrough in
computer...
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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Location: University of Virginia, United States
Magnets have been touted for their healing properties since ancient Greece.
Magnetic therapy is still widely used today as an alternative method for
treating a number of conditions, from arthritis to depression, but there
hasn’t been...
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Location: Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, United States
The sleep patterns of patients in the intensive care unit are so superficial that they barely spend any time in the restorative stages of sleep that aid in healing,
UT Southwestern Medical Center...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A group of Purdue University researchers
has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as
nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
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Location: Michigan State University, United States
A mouse created by Michigan State University scientists studying a disease thought to be a neurological disorder that weakens men has exposed two surprises: Testosterone appears to be the culprit and it’s...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
Severely restricting calories leads to a longer life, scientists have proved.
New research now has shown for the first time that such a diet also can
maintain physical fitness into advanced age, slowing the seemingly inevitable...
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Location: Research Center Paul Pascal (C.R.P.P.), France
The concepts and practices in chemistry are evolving.In 1977, Jacques Livage
* invents sweet chemistry that aims to synthesize materials drawing on the
capabilities of living organisms to produce glass from silicates in solution at
room...
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Location: Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States
It used to be dogma that the brain was shut away from the actions of the
immune system, shielded from the outside forces of nature. But that’s not how
it is at all. In fact, thanks to the scientific detective work of Kevin Tracey,
MD, it...
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Location: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
An international team of researchers led by a Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center geneticist has discovered two genes linked
to a disabling form of
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Location: Texas A&M University, United States
Bats
are the most vocal mammals other than humans, and understanding how they
communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for
human
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Location: P.O. Box 016430 , Miami, FL 33101, United States
Taste has been the most elusive of the five senses. Now, genetic work is
revealing how taste buds handle the chemical information that washes over them.
Researchers have discovered a large family of taste-cell proteins that seem
to...
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Location: Changaon Residential Area , Bahadarhat, Chittagong-4000, Bangladesh
To speak, count, locate themselves in space… As many aptitudes as one often
judges to separate men and women. Do these differences have they a scientific
reality? They in the brain are observed? True answers in example.
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Location: Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543., Israel
Healthy cells have regulating mechanisms that generally
limit how rapidly they can divide. Skin cells, for example, normally divide
about once every 30 days, but they can divide faster in response to a wound that
needs healing....
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