Archive: 28/02/2018

Cancer metastasis: Cell polarity matters

It's not only the number of migrating cancer cells that determines the risk for metastasis, but also their characteristics, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) report in Nature Communications. For circulating ...

Feb 28, 2018

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Nearly all cannabis seized by UK police is high-strength 'skunk'– here's why we should be worried

Fully 94% of the cannabis seized by British police in 2016 was high-potency cannabis known as "skunk", our latest research reveals. By comparison, skunk comprised 85% of cannabis seized in 2008, and just 51% in 2005. This ...

Feb 28, 2018

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Booze ads cause risky drinking in young people

Young people are more likely to start drinking alcohol earlier and at risky levels as a direct result of alcohol companies targeting them via advertising, a review by Curtin University has found.

Feb 28, 2018

Tweaking RNA protects cells from harmful inflammation

Should a cell detect an invader, it alerts the immune system to trigger inflammation, a blunt and sometimes damaging defensive response. By studying a defect that underlies Aicardi-Goutières syndrome, an autoinflammatory ...

Feb 28, 2018

The key to treating multiple sclerosis could be inside sufferers' own bodies

Fat often gets a bad press, but if it didn't coat the cables that connect our neurons, we'd be in a lot of trouble. Sufferers of multiple sclerosis and a host of other nervous system diseases have first-hand experience of ...

Feb 28, 2018

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Higher waist and hip measures may add up to greater risk for heart attack among women

Higher waist and hip size are more strongly associated with heart attack risk than overall obesity, especially among women, according to research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the ...

Feb 28, 2018

More isn't always better when it comes to health care, older Americans say

Doctors and older patients may disagree more often than either of them suspects about whether a particular medical test or medicine is truly necessary, according to findings from a new poll of Americans over age 50.

Feb 28, 2018

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Mandatory exercise at the office, Sweden's latest craze

Workers spending their lunch break at the gym may be commonplace in most Western countries, but in Sweden some employers are pushing the idea even further, making on-the-job exercise compulsory.

Feb 28, 2018

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New path studied to create dry probiotic apple cubes

Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil) have completed a study that lays the foundation to produced packaged apple cubes enriched with Lactobacillus casei probiotics. ...

Feb 28, 2018

Familial breast cancer not only inherited genetically, finds new study

Mutations in known breast cancer genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 are identified in only approximately 20 per cent of women who are offered genetic testing for familial breast cancer.

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Archive: 28/02/2018

Cancer metastasis: Cell polarity matters

Nearly all cannabis seized by UK police is high-strength 'skunk'– here's why we should be worried

Booze ads cause risky drinking in young people

Tweaking RNA protects cells from harmful inflammation

The key to treating multiple sclerosis could be inside sufferers' own bodies

Higher waist and hip measures may add up to greater risk for heart attack among women

More isn't always better when it comes to health care, older Americans say

Mandatory exercise at the office, Sweden's latest craze

New path studied to create dry probiotic apple cubes

Familial breast cancer not only inherited genetically, finds new study

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