Researchers prevent heart failure in mice
(Medical Xpress)—Cardiac stress, for example a heart attack or high blood pressure, frequently leads to pathological heart growth and subsequently to heart failure. Two tiny RNA molecules play a key role ...
Cardiology
Sep 25, 2012 |
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Noisy surroundings take toll on short-term memory
Have you ever noticed how tiresome it can be to follow a conversation at a noisy party? Rest assured: this is not necessarily due to bad hearing – although that might make things worse. Scientists at the ...
Neuroscience
Sep 06, 2012 |
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Advanced maternal age not harmful for children in adulthood
(Medical Xpress)—Previously existing ideas on how advanced maternal age affects adult health of children have to be reconsidered. It had been thought that mothers delivering later in life have children ...
Health
Sep 06, 2012 |
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Epigenetic causes of prostate cancer
(Medical Xpress)—In about half of all prostate tumours, there are two genetic areas that are fused with one another. When this is not the case, the exact way cancer cells originate in prostate tumours was not clear until ...
Cancer
Sep 05, 2012 |
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Finished heart switches stem cells off
It is not unusual for babies to be born with congenital heart defects. This is because the development of the heart in the embryo is a process which is not only extremely complex, but also error-prone. Scientists ...
Medical research
Jul 12, 2012 |
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Culprit behind unchecked angiogenesis identified
German researchers unravel a critical regulatory mechanism controlling blood vessel growth that might help solve drug resistance problems in the future.
Medical research
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Extended synaptic development may explain our cognitive edge over other primates
Over the first few years of life, human cognition continues to develop, soaking up information and experiences from the environment and far surpassing the abilities of even our nearest primate relatives. In a study published ...
Genetics
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Medical prize honors discoverer of malarial drug
(AP) -- A scientist who discovered a powerful malaria drug and two others who illuminated how proteins fold within cells have won prestigious medical awards.
Other
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Speaking and understanding speech share the same parts of the brain
The brain has two big tasks related to speech: making it and understanding it. Psychologists and others who study the brain have debated whether these are really two separate tasks or whether they both use the same regions ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Stress genes out of kilter
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen have investigated genetic variations of the corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) system, the biological ...
Medical research
Aug 09, 2011 |
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The brain's connectome -- from branch to branch
The human brain is the most complex of all organs, containing billions of neurons with their corresponding projections, all woven together in a highly complex, three-dimensional web. To date, mapping this ...
Neuroscience
Jul 28, 2011 |
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