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IQ can rise or fall significantly during adolescence, brain scans confirm
IQ, the standard measure of intelligence, can increase or fall significantly during our teenage years, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust, and these changes are associated with changes to the ...
Neuroscience
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Number of Facebook friends linked to size of brain regions, study suggests
Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust have found a direct link between the number of 'Facebook friends' a person has and the size of particular brain regions. In a study published today, researchers at University College ...
Neuroscience
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Google Earth typhoid maps reveal secrets of disease outbreaks
In the mid-nineteenth century, John Snow mapped cases of cholera in Soho, London, and traced the source of the outbreak to a contaminated water pump. Now, in a twenty-first century equivalent, scientists funded ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 16, 2011 |
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First genome-wide association study for dengue identifies candidate susceptibility genes
Researchers in South East Asia have identified two genetic variants associated with increased susceptibility to severe dengue. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, ...
Genetics
Oct 16, 2011 |
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Brain imaging reveals why we remain optimistic in the face of reality
For some people, the glass is always half full. Even when a football fan's team has lost ten matches in a row, he might still be convinced his team can reverse its run of bad luck. So why, in the face of clear evidence to ...
Neuroscience
Oct 09, 2011 |
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Is the 'longevity gene' nearing the end of its life?
Sirtuins, proteins believed to significantly increase lifespan in a number of organisms – and the claimed target of some anti-ageing creams – do not, in fact, affect animal longevity, according to new research funded ...
Medical research
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Hedging your bets: How the brain makes decisions based on related information
When making decisions based on multiple, interdependent factors, we choose based on how these factors correlate with each other, and not based on an ad hoc rule of thumb or through trial and error as was previously thought, ...
Neuroscience
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Breathless - understanding asthma
More than 5 million people in the UK suffer from asthma, and we still don’t know what causes it. Researchers have drawn up a long list of possible risk factors but findings are frequently contradictory. ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Men and women fight infection differently, study suggests
Female mammals are better prepared to fight infections and their bodies suffer less collateral damage when an infection does hit, according to a new study part-funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Medical research
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Surprising role for suppressive cytokine in antiviral immune responses
(Medical Xpress) -- A molecule normally implicated in restraining immune responses is also capable of stimulating defences against virus infection, according to new research, by promoting the survival of a population of immune ...
Medical research
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Malaria prevention strategies could substantially cut killer bacterial infections, study suggests
Interventions targeting malaria, such as insecticide-treated bed nets, antimalarial drugs and mosquito control, could substantially reduce cases of bacteraemia, which kill hundreds of thousands of children each year in Africa ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Out of Africa: What is an allergen?
Some fundamental questions in allergy remain unanswered. Among them are ‘What exactly is an allergen?’ and ‘Why is the immune response so similar to that against parasitic worms?’ Researchers ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Immunizing at birth is safe and effective against severe pneumococcal disease
(Medical Xpress) -- Vaccinating children against the pneumococcus at birth is safe and primes the immune system against later infection, according to research published in the journal Clinical Infectious Di ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Gene-therapy success for children born without functioning immune system
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the UCL Institute of Child Health have developed gene-therapy programmes that can successfully treat children born with an inability to fight infections, according to studies ...
Medical research
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Victorian naval medicine
The British Empire depended on its navy to survive and grow. For its operational success, the Royal Navy in turn depended on the health of its sailors, who were frequently exposed to ‘exotic’ and ...
Other
Aug 17, 2011 |
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