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New study gives insight into why some people diversify resources and others conserve

(Medical Xpress)—Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Most of us have heard this old adage applied to many of life's decisions, from planting crops, to dating, to buying stock. Spread your resources to ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Toward a vaccine for Ebola

On August 26, 1976, a time bomb exploded in Yambuku, a remote village in Zaire, (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). A threadlike virus known as Ebola had emerged, soon earning a grim distinction as ...

Medical research created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New DNA vaccine technology poised to deliver safe and cost-effective disease protection

New and increasingly sophisticated vaccines are taking aim at a broad range of disease-causing pathogens, targeting them with greater effectiveness at lower cost and with improved measures to ensure safety.

Medical research created Nov 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New study shows passing mood can profoundly alter 'rational decisions'

Could a passing mood influence your financial portfolio for decades to come? Can impulses you inherited from your cave-man ancestors influence your financial decisions in the modern world in ways that may have lifelong consequences?

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Secrets of immune response illuminated in new study

When disease-causing invaders like bacteria infect a human host, cells of various types swing into action, coordinating their activities to address the threat.

Immunology created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Portable metabolism tracker launched

Breezing, a new startup based on technology developed by researchers at Arizona State University, is offering the world's first portable device that can track an individual's metabolism and use that information t ...

Medical research created Jan 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Higher levels of several toxic metals found in children with autism

In a recently published study in the journal Biological Trace Element Research, Arizona State University researchers report that children with autism had higher levels of several toxic metals in their blood and urine compar ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Feb 25, 2013 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cell-CT: A new dimension in breast cancer research

Despite advances in both the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, the disease remains a leading worldwide health concern.

Cancer created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Countdown to the introduction of a norovirus vaccine

Noroviruses are believed to make up half of all food-borne disease outbreaks in the United States, causing incapacitating (and often violent) stomach flu. These notorious human pathogens are responsible for 90 percent of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Applying medical imaging expertise to battles against kidney disease, nervous system disorder

(Medical Xpress) -- Promising efforts to improve detection of early-stage kidney disease and treat children with neurofibromatosis have earned grants for Arizona State University research projects from the ...

Medical research created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Beneficial bacteria may help ward off infection

(Medical Xpress) -- While many bacteria exist as aggressive pathogens, causing diseases ranging from tuberculosis and cholera, to plague, diphtheria and toxic shock syndrome, others play a less malevolent ...

Medical research created Jul 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Battery of tests on cancer cells shows them as 'squishy,' yet tactically strong

A team of student researchers and their professors from 20 laboratories around the country have gotten a new view of cancer cells. The work could shed light on the transforming physical properties of these cells as they metastasize, ...

Cancer created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher finds exercise may be intervention for Down syndrome

(Medical Xpress)—Marcus Santellan's aunt says he's more talkative at home, using longer sentences, now that he's in an exercise program at Arizona State University. The young man with Down syndrome (DS) ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research reveals effectiveness of seizure treatments for children with autism

Physicians will have a better guide for more effectively managing treatment of children experiencing seizures related to autism with the results of a study by researchers at Arizona State University and the University of ...

Medical research created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Caring for caregivers

If your parent, spouse or best friend developed dementia this year, would you be prepared to care for them? How would you know if they wandered outside in the middle of the night and couldn’t find their way home? How ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast