Genetics
Why women outlive men: It's in our genes, study says
Scientists are beginning to understand one of life's enduring mysteries - why women live, on average, longer than men.
Aug 2, 2012
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Medical research
Vaccine research shows vigilance needed against evolution of more-virulent malaria
Malaria parasites evolving in vaccinated laboratory mice become more virulent, according to research at Penn State University. The mice were injected with a critical component of several candidate human malaria vaccines that ...
Jul 31, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Using neuroeconomics to study psychiatry
Neuroeconomics experts and guest editors of the Biological Psychiatry special issue Carla Sharp, John Monterosso, and P. Read Montague in an introductory paper define neuroeconomics as "an interdisciplinary field that brings ...
Jul 19, 2012
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Autism spectrum disorders
Researchers find evidence of link between immune irregularities and autism
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) pioneered the study of the link between irregularities in the immune system and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism a decade ago. Since then, studies ...
Jul 17, 2012
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Other
Synthetic Biology Scorecard finds federal agencies responding to bioethics report
Federal agencies have started taking steps to address the recommendations in a 2010 report from the presidential bioethics commission to improve the governance of synthetic biology research and development, though the government ...
Jul 16, 2012
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Immunology
Parasite infection has sting in the tail
(Medical Xpress) -- Infections from certain parasites can compromise the immune system, leaving it less able to fight other diseases.
Jun 28, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Study examines the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles
A new paper by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, discusses the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles and their clinical application as circulating biomarkers. Microvesicles ...
Jun 21, 2012
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Medical research
Researchers developing drug to combat west nile virus, other related viruses
(Medical Xpress) -- Professors at Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado are developing a drug that can stop replication of West Nile, dengue and yellow fever viruses that continue to plague two-thirds ...
Jun 8, 2012
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Neuroscience
Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells
Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned on at a given moment. However, ...
May 6, 2012
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Medical research
New genetically engineered mice aid understanding of incurable neuromuscular disease
A team of scientists from the University of Missouri created a genetically modified mouse that mimics key features of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited neuromuscular disease affecting approximately 150,000 people ...
Apr 17, 2012
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