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Whole exome sequencing identifies cause of metabolic disease

Sequencing a patient's entire genome to discover the source of his or her disease is not routine – yet. But geneticists are getting close.

Genetics 6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (7) | 0 |

Hearing metaphors activates brain regions involved in sensory experience

When a friend tells you she had a rough day, do you feel sandpaper under your fingers? The brain may be replaying sensory experiences to help understand common metaphors, new research suggests.

Neuroscience 6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |

US recommends routine HPV vaccination for boys

US health authorities on Friday urged all boys age 11-12 to get a routine vaccination against the most common sexually transmitted disease, human papillomavirus, or HPV.

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New procedure repairs severed nerves in minutes, restoring limb use in days or weeks

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 team used a cellular mechanism similar to that used by many invertebrates ...

Neuroscience 17 hours ago | 5 / 5 (14) | 7 |

New technology to tackle treatment-resistant cancers

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, in an attempt to assess and control the disease ...

Cancer 13 hours ago | 5 / 5 (4) | 2 |

Gene related to fat preferences in humans found

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 high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene.

Genetics 12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 |

Soy isoflavone supplements did not provide breast cancer protections

Soy isoflavone supplements did not decrease breast cancer cell proliferation in a randomized clinical trial, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Resear ...

Cancer 12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 |

A new study shows how to boost the power of pain relief, without drugs

(Medical Xpress) -- Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction—say, doing a puzzle—relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests ...

Psychology & Psychiatry 16 hours ago | 4 / 5 (2) | 0 |

What patients talk about when they talk about doctors

(Medical Xpress) -- An analysis of hundreds of reviews posted to physician-rating sites on the Internet revealed that patients generally give their doctors favorable reviews in this forum. If they complain, it is generally ...

Health 15 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Diet high in processed meat linked to increased diabetes risk in populations with high diabetes rate

(Medical Xpress) -- Diabetes risk is increased in men and women who eat a diet that is high in processed meats, according to a study published online this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Processed ...

Health 16 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Could brain size determine whether you are good at maintaining friendships?

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain – known as the orbital prefrontal cortex – that ...

Neuroscience Feb 02, 2012 | 3 / 5 (11) | 9 |

Short-term memory is based on synchronized brain oscillations

Scientists have now discovered how different brain regions cooperate during short-term memory.

Neuroscience Jan 31, 2012 | 5 / 5 (10) | 8 |

Researchers: Societal control of sugar essential to ease public health burden

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million ...

Health Feb 01, 2012 | 2.6 / 5 (8) | 8 |

Facebook is not such a good thing for those with low self-esteem

(Medical Xpress) -- In theory, the social networking website Facebook could be great for people with low self-esteem. Sharing is important for improving friendships. But in practice, people with low self-esteem seem to behave ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Jan 31, 2012 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 8 |

Researchers rewrite textbook on location of brain's speech processing center

Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain's cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received -- a place famously known as Wernicke's area ...

Neuroscience Jan 30, 2012 | 4.6 / 5 (15) | 6 |

Just another pretty face: Professor investigates neural basis of prosopagnosia

For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned.

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 01, 2012 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 6 |

Malaria kills twice as many as previously thought: study

New research published in this week's edition of The Lancet shows that malaria kills 1.2 million people worldwide each year: twice as many as previously thought. Furthermore, while many believe most malaria deaths occur ...

Diseases Feb 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 3 |

Got creative block? Get out of your office and go for a walk

(Medical Xpress) -- The next time you're in need of creative inspiration, try thinking outside the box—or cubicle.

Psychology & Psychiatry Jan 31, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 4 |

Here is what real commitment to your marriage means

What does being committed to your marriage really mean? UCLA psychologists answer this question in a new study based on their analysis of 172 married couples over the first 11 years of marriage.

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 01, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 3 |

New study confirms that mom's love good for child's brain

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress.

Psychology & Psychiatry Jan 30, 2012 | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 3 |

Early intervention may curb dangerous college drinking

The first few weeks of college are a critical time in shaping students' drinking habits. Now Penn State researchers have a tailored approach that may help prevent students from becoming heavy drinkers.

Health Jan 30, 2012 | not rated yet | 3 |

Engineer builds robot based on crab to remove stomach cancers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a bit of science that has a genuine wow factor, doctors and a mechanical engineer from Singapore's National University Hospital and Nanyang Technological Institute have teamed together to build a small ...

Research Feb 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (7) | 2 |

New study uncovers probable mechanism underlying resveratrol activity

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 confer its health benefits. The authors present ...

Research Feb 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 2 |

Gene regulator in brain's executive hub tracked across lifespan

For the first time, 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. Among key findings ...

Genetics Feb 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |

Decoding brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

Neuroscience Jan 31, 2012 | 5 / 5 (7) | 2 |

New evidence touch-sensing nerve cells may fuel 'ringing in the ears'

We all know that it can take a little while for our hearing to bounce back after listening to our iPods too loud or attending a raucous concert. But new research at the University of Michigan Health System ...

Neuroscience Feb 01, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 2 |

Seeing really is believing

(Medical Xpress) -- Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their team's pass forward, their player offside, or their serve as a fault?

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 01, 2012 | 4 / 5 (5) | 2 |

Scientists demonstrate effective new 'biopsy in a blood test' to detect cancer

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 analyzing circulating ...

Cancer Feb 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Identical twins reveal mechanisms behind aging

In a recent study led by Uppsala University, the researchers compared the DNA of identical (monozygotic) twins of different age. They could show that structural modifications of the DNA, where large or small DNA segments ...

Genetics Feb 02, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 0 |

Football findings suggest concussions caused by series of hits

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 to the head, as commonly believed.

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Engineer builds robot based on crab to remove stomach cancers Feb 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (7) | 2
Cancer drugs shown to cause mutations in mice offspring Jan 31, 2012 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0
Initial research into 'Proust Phenomenon' reveals link between memories and smells Jan 30, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0
Optical Illusion experiment shows higher brain functions involved in pupil size control Jan 25, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 2
Researchers find negative social interactions can lead to increased amounts of internal inflammation Jan 24, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

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New drug doesn't improve disability among stroke patients

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 at the American Stroke Association's International ...

New device performs better than old for removing blood clots

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.

Lower levels of sunlight link to allergy and eczema

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.

Researcher says six factors can help you lead a longer, better life

(Medical Xpress) -- Spanish explorer Ponce de León searched for the "Fountain of Youth" in hopes of finding eternal life. And while Peter Martin, director of Iowa State University's gerontology program, ...

Decoding keys to a healthy life

For 74 years, one of the longest-running studies of normal adult development has been examining not disease and illness, but what may be life’s magic question: How can you live long and happy?

Dieting with the denomination, determination

As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find ...

Climate-change effects on malaria risk

A new study suggests that climate change, driven by greenhouse-gas emissions and land-use changes, will cause patterns of malaria infection to change over the next 50 years.

Lifestyle changes can help prevent 30% of cancers: WHO

More than 30 percent of cancers can be prevented by lifestyle changes, the World Health Organization said Friday, on the eve of World Cancer Day.

Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought, say scientists

Japanese entrepreneurs aim for Silicon Valley

Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt

Collective action: Occupied genetic switches hold clues to cells' history

Mission to land on a comet

Genetic information migrates from plant to plant

Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy

EU probes new Google privacy policy

NASA's Juno spacecraft refines its path to Jupiter

Do black holes help stars form?

Dry conditions spurred advanced photosynthesis

Repulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 2: In the quantum vacuum)

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New super-earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star

Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say

Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor

Depression link to heart disease not affected by medication

People with major depression and anxiety are 75% more likely to have a heart rate condition linked to cardiovascular disease – regardless of whether they are taking antidepressants, new research shows.

'Gatekeeper' protein helps immune cells to sound a warning after encountering signs of tumor growth or infection

When the body’s own cells turn into ticking time bombs, as in cases of viral infection or cancerous transformation, a mechanism known as ‘cross-presentation’ enables the immune system’s ...

New technique successfully dissolves blood clots in the brain and lowers risk of brain damage after stroke

(Medical Xpress) -- 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 damaged brain tissue or removing large pieces ...

Kids heading for diabetes could change their future

(Medical Xpress) -- New research suggests exercise early in life could fend off diabetes and heart disease, even for those predisposed to such diseases.

Fall monitoring device could end standoffs, keep seniors safer

(Medical Xpress) -- It’s a scenario played out all too frequently: Adult children, worried about the safety of their aging parents, foist devices on them to monitor their safety. And their parents, resentful ...

Targeting tumors may help stop spread of breast, other cancers

(Medical Xpress) -- Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a few of those secondary tumors, called metastases, some ...

Regular use of vitamin and mineral supplements could reduce the risk of colon cancer: study

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 study published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP) found that ra ...

We are getting fatter, whichever way we turn

We are getting fatter - no matter which way we look at it, a Deakin University analysis of two popular obesity testing methods has found.

Coughing and other respiratory symptoms improve within weeks of smoking cessation

If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially ...

Komen drops plans to cut Planned Parenthood grants

(AP) -- The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The startling decision came after three days of virulent criticism that resounded across ...

Schooling protects fleeing children from disease

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 a few hours of schooling a week may have a pronounced ...

World Cancer Day points to prevention

Health care organizations from around the globe will come together on Saturday, Feb. 4 to promote cancer prevention as part of this year's World Cancer Day.