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New study finds HIV Achilles Heel

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how scientists have used a mathematical tool to possibly identify an Achilles heel in HIV which may le ...

HIV & AIDS Jun 21, 2011 | 4.8 / 5 (13) | 4 |

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 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Does your voice share your fertility with others?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike members of other animal species, human females do not have obvious physical signs to show the opposite sex that they are ovulating. But research over the years have found subtle changes in women such ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 03, 2011 | 3.7 / 5 (6) | 2 |

New understanding of how we see colors

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have until now not fully understood how animals see in color, since visual pigments in eyes contain exactly the same chromophore (light absorbing segment of the molecule) and yet can absorb different ...

Medical research Dec 07, 2012 | 4.6 / 5 (11) | 0 |

Human infants capable of advanced reasoning

(Medical Xpress) -- Recent research reported in PhysOrg showed that babies seem to be able to distinguish right from wrong even at the age of six months, and consistently choose helpful characters over unhe ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Jun 24, 2011 | 4.7 / 5 (18) | 18

Researchers find reading uses the same brain regions regardless of language

(Medical Xpress)—A team of French and Taiwanese researchers has found evidence to indicate that people use the same regions of the brain when reading, regardless of which language is being read. In their ...

Neuroscience Nov 27, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 4 |

Proteins expressed by human cytomegalovirus mapped

(Medical Xpress)—A new study in the US and Germany has added to our understanding of the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and how it manipulates the cells it infects.

Medical research Nov 23, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Research shows brain hub activity different in coma patients

(Medical Xpress)—A team of French and British researchers has found that brain region activity for coma patients is markedly different than for healthy people. In their paper published in the Proceedings of ...

Neuroscience Nov 27, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 6 |

New-age prosthetic technique enables blind mice to see

(Medical Xpress) -- A recent TEDMED talk has scientists interested in a presenter’s novel techniques to help the blind. A device with two parts, encoder and transducer, can do the job. Sheila Nirenberg, a neuroscientist and professor at Weill Medical ...

Neuroscience Dec 23, 2011 | 5 / 5 (15) | 9 |