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Eye implants make vision-restoring progress
(Medical Xpress) -- "I was blind once but now I can see.” The words are no longer the sole property of religious testimony and literature. Medical progress is being made in the restoration of vision as ...
Ophthalmology
Jul 18, 2012 |
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Researchers discover molecule that kills cavity causing mouth bacteria
(Medical Xpress) -- Yale researcher Jose Cordova and Erich Astudillo from the University of Chile (and Founder of Top Tech Innovations SpA) have after working together, discovered a new molecule that kills the bacteria Streptococcus Mu ...
Dentistry
Jul 10, 2012 |
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Research team disputes evidence of new egg development in mammal ovaries
(Medical Xpress) -- Back in February, a team of researchers led by Jonathan Tilly published a paper in Nature Medicine describing new work that they said backed up research done in 2004 (resulting in a paper published in the ...
Medical research
Jul 10, 2012 |
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New detector for rare cancer cells
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers in the US have developed a new detector for measuring rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in samples of whole blood.
Cancer
Jul 07, 2012 |
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Researchers find a link between age related memory loss and a specific enzyme in mice
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of researchers working out of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Neurosciences at the University of Heidelberg have found that older mice that had levels of the enzyme DNA methyltransferase ...
Neuroscience
Jul 02, 2012 |
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Researchers find possible link between jumping genes and cancerous tumor growth
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers based out of Harvard and Brigham Young Women’s Hospital have found compelling evidence that suggests “retrotransposon movement in somatic cells” - DNA sequences that jump (make ...
Cancer
Jun 29, 2012 |
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Doctors successfully implant synthetic larynx piece into two patients
(Medical Xpress) -- Doctors working at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, have for the first time, successfully implanted a synthetically grown integral part of the human larynx into two live ...
Medical research
Jun 29, 2012 |
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Researchers find link between neuritin gene activity and stress induced depression
(Medical Xpress) -- Research teams from the US and Korea have together been studying depression and other mood disorders and have found that chronic stress can block a gene whose job it is to maintain healthy neuron connections ...
Neuroscience
Jun 27, 2012 |
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Pill using ultrasound may replace daily needles
(Medical Xpress) -- For patients who need daily injections to stay on course, being able instead to take their medication orally would help improve patients’ quality of life and perhaps even outcomes. ...
Medications
Jun 26, 2012 |
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Mathematician develops vocal method of testing for Parkinson's disease
Parkinson’s disease is one of a number of cruel degenerative ailments that slowly rob those afflicted of their faculties. What starts out as a minor tremor in the hands, eventually grows to a life altering condition. ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Jun 25, 2012 |
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Human antibody for dengue virus isolated
(Phys.org) -- A group of scientists in Singapore and the UK have isolated a human antibody capable of effectively neutralizing the mosquito-borne dengue virus. Dengue fever is currently incurable and infects ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 22, 2012 |
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Researchers find protein deposits linked to Alzheimer's disease behave like prions
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of California have found that a peptide that forms deposits in the human brain and is thought to be responsible for the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, behaves in ways ...
Medical research
Jun 20, 2012 |
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High cholesterol diet found to help mice afflicted with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
(Medical Xpress) -- In people and most animals, the nerves that carry electrical signals from one part of the body to another must have a protective coating (called a myelin sheath) to allow signals to travel properly. When ...
Medical research
Jun 18, 2012 |
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Statistics show people more likely to die on their birthday
(Phys.org) -- Researchers studying mortality rates on over two million people over a forty year time span have found that statistically speaking, people are more likely to die on their birthday, than any other ...
Health
Jun 12, 2012 |
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Psychologists find meditation increases awareness of subliminal messages
(Phys.org) -- In our busy world most rarely have time to ponder the intricacies of subliminal messaging, despite the fact that it goes on all around us every day, in many cases as a direct means to incite ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 08, 2012 |
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