Archive: 04/15/2011
Researchers complete whole-exome sequencing of skin cancer
A team led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health is the first to systematically survey the landscape of the melanoma genome, the DNA code of the deadliest form of skin cancer. The researchers ...
Genetics
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Researchers unlock key to personalized cancer medicine using tumor metabolism
Identifying gene mutations in cancer patients to predict clinical outcome has been the cornerstone of cancer research for nearly three decades, but now researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have invented a ...
Cancer
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Inability to detect sarcasm, lies may be early sign of dementia, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- By asking a group of older adults to analyze videos of other people conversing -- some talking truthfully, some insincerely -- a group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has determined ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Experimental drug inhibits cell signaling pathway and slows ovarian cancer growth
An experimental drug that blocks two points of a crucial cancer cell signaling pathway inhibits the growth of ovarian cancer cells and significantly increases survival in an ovarian cancer mouse model, a study at UCLA's Jonsson ...
Cancer
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Warning to breastfeeding mothers
While breastfeeding babies has numerous health advantages to both mother and child, mothers who breastfeed may find that other people look down on them and do not want to work with them. A recent study released by Personality an ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 15, 2011 |
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People know when first impressions are accurate
First impressions are important, and they usually contain a healthy dose both of accuracy and misperception. But do people know when their first impressions are correct? They do reasonably well, according to a study in the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Molecular switch affects panic disorder
Panic disorder sufferers will tell you the attacks are some of the most sudden, frightening and uncomfortable experiences ever. But what makes some people susceptible to these attacks and others not? Studies of twins point ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Study documents PBDE flame retardant levels in children
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of 264 Mexican-American children living in California had higher levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants in their blood serum than 283 counterparts living in Mexico, according ...
Health
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Drug may help sickest patients
(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients in critical care have a larger risk for dangerous blood clots because they are immobile and usually have heart or breathing problems. However, an international study by McMaster University researchers ...
Medications
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Childhood eczema and hay fever leads to adult allergic asthma
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children who have eczema, particularly when occurring with hay fever, are nine times more likely to develop allergic asthma in their 40s, a new study reveals.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Can nudging help fight the obesity epidemic?
With obesity rates soaring, the government has been promoting nudge – a strategy that does not tell people how to live but encourages them to make healthy choices in respect of diet and exercise.
Health
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Artificial pancreas may improve overnight control of diabetes in adults
Two small randomised trials published in the British Medical Journal today suggest that closed loop insulin delivery (also known as an artificial pancreas) may improve overnight blood glucose control and reduce the risk of ...
Medical research
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Controversial TOFT theory of cancer versus SMT model: Authors do battle in BioEssays
Writing in BioEssays, cancer scientists Ana Soto and Carlos Sonnenschein pit their controversial Tissue Organization Field Theory (TOFT) of the origin of cancer against the widely accepted Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT) in wha ...
Cancer
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Neurological basis for embarrassment described
Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University ...
Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Mortality rate is increased in persons with autism who also have epilepsy
A comprehensive investigation of brain tissue donated to the Autism Speaks Autism Tissue Program (ATP), a postmortem brain tissue donation program, determined that one-third of the brain donors with autism also had epilepsy, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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