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for the Week of February 27 to March 6, 2011
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Posted 2011-03-05:
- Jekyll and Hyde: Cells' executioner can also stave off death
- Decline in cerebral palsy diagnoses in premature infants suggests improvements in perinatal care
- Mean girls and queen bees: Females threatened by social exclusion will reject others first
- Mutations found in human induced pluripotent stem cells
- Prostate cancer: Targeted therapy shrank tumors up to 74 percent in cells in mice
- To bring effective therapies to patients quicker, use the team approach
- Certain parts of the brain activated in people who heard tailored health messages and quit smoking
Posted 2011-03-05:
- New non-surgical autopsy technique set to revolutionize post-mortem practice
- Possible new treatment strategies for pancreatic cancer
- Feet first? Old mitochondria might be responsible for neuropathy in the extremities
- Can you predict your mate will cheat by their voice?
- How long do stem cells live?
- Some overweight adolescents may be at risk for weak bones
- Constant race-based discrimination can lead to 'racial battle fatigue' for African-Americans
- New light-sensing mechanism found in neurons
- Star-shaped brain cells feed long-term memory
- Drop in temperature may explain the increase in dry eye suffering
- Moderate sleep loss impairs vigilance and sustained attention in children with ADHD
- Neurons with symptoms of Parkinson's disease created from patient's skin cells
- Risks of chemical exposure: Scientists call for 'swifter and sounder' testing of chemicals
- Trouble with the latest dance move? GABA might be to blame
- Ibuprofen may reduce risk of developing Parkinson's disease, study suggests
- Sex differences in male and female learning revealed by gibbons
- MRSA danger in gyms may be exaggerated, study suggests
- Potential mechanisms for future anti-obesity drugs identified
- Obesity may increase risk of triple-negative breast cancer
- Older patients confused about multiple drug dosing
- New clue to controlling skin regeneration, as well as skin cancer
- New findings on drug tolerance in TB suggest ideas for shorter cures
- Ultrasound and algorithms could lead to better breast cancer screening
- Fear of side effects shapes older patients' willingness to take heart medication
Posted 2011-03-04:
- Susceptibility factor for bipolar disorder identified
- Easy, accurate way to predict food allergies developed, study suggests
- Cancer patients' partners become ill themselves, Swedish study shows
- Women who miscarry continue to have mental health problems, even after healthy birth
- Liver, not brain, may be origin of Alzheimer’s plaques
- New method allows human embryonic stem cells to avoid immune system rejection
- Solving the puzzle of Henry VIII
- Potassium levels possible key to racial disparity in Type 2 diabetes
- The more secure you feel, the less you value your stuff
- New drug regimens cut HIV spread from mother to infant
- New findings challenge view of key part of immune defense
- Using artificial, cell-like 'honey pots' to entrap deadly viruses
- How sunlight may reduce the severity of multiple sclerosis
- Researcher seeks to use electrical stimulation to give voice to stroke patients
- Brain's 'autopilot' provides insight into early development of Alzheimer's disease
- Spinal cord injury: Human cells derived from stem cells restore movement in animal models
- New hope for lowering cholesterol
- Smoking increases risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, study shows
- Solving the riddle of nature’s perfect spring
- Cannabis use precedes the onset of psychotic symptoms in young people, study finds
- Type 2 diabetes linked to single gene mutation in one in ten patients
- Six-month drug regimen cuts HIV risk for breastfeeding infants, study finds
- 'A little off the top' helps map cells with submicrometer resolution
- Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may help stave off dementia, research suggests
- Scientists show how men amp up their X chromosome
- Blood protein in lung cancer could improve diagnosis and treatment
- Women get short shrift in many heart device studies, despite requirement
- Rich and poor, UK youth are happy after all?
- How ovarian cancer resists chemotherapy
- How much can a cell uptake?
- Freedom to choose leisure activities benefits people with autism
- College students in Texas and Washington surveyed on guns on campus
- New brain training app for research into aging minds
Posted 2011-03-03:
- Protein identified that serves as a switch in a key pathway of programmed cell death
- New role found for cancer protein p53
- Parents rationalize the economic cost of children by exaggerating their parental joy
- Protein's elusive role in embryo and disease development unravelled
- Joint pain in children: Is it just a sore knee, or could it be juvenile idiopathic arthritis?
- Effectiveness of wastewater treatment may be damaged during a severe flu pandemic
- Dude, you throw like a crybaby!
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) could be caused by a retrovirus, study suggests
- Good fungi might prove even better for plant, human health
- Researchers predict age of T cells to improve cancer treatment
- Hair dyeing poised for first major transformation in 150 years
- Facing the Facebook mirror can boost self-esteem
- Bacteria can communicate with each other through nanotubes, researchers discover
- Shift work may be associated with decreased risk of skin cancer
- Nitric oxide does not appear to improve treatment of sickle cell pain-attacks
- Just like me: Online training helpers more effective when they resemble students
- World's most powerful optical microscope: Microscope could 'solve the cause of viruses'
- New cell therapy a promising atherosclerosis treatment
- Songbird's strategy for changing its tune could inform rehab efforts
- Fluorescent peptides help nerves glow in surgery
- Meditation beats dance for harmonizing body and mind
- HIV vaccine impacts the genetic makeup of the virus
- Head injury can blight survival up to 13 years later
- Herbal teas may provide health benefits
- Tonsillectomy linked to excess weight gain in kids
- Tanning bed exposure can be deadly when complicated by medication reactions
- Key step in the development of a norovirus treatment
- Scientists synthesize long-sought-after anticancer agent
- Popular psychology theories on self-esteem not backed up by serious research, study finds
- Findings on pollution damage to human airways could yield new therapies
- Biochemists offer first 3-D model of asthma-causing inflammation enzyme
- Unemployment: A health risk
- Trust, clarity and openness in the workplace
Posted 2011-03-02:
- More than allergies: Histamine may be a possible drug target for multiple sclerosis
- 'Social-IQ score' for bacteria developed
- Essential fatty acids pill prevents PMS, study suggests
- Best friends can make a child more physically active
- Happiness improves health and lengthens life, review finds
- Signaling path in brain may prevent that 'I'm full' message
- Surgeons predict the future of nanomedicine in practice
- Higher job performance linked to people who are more honest and humble
- New CPR method increases survival rate by 50 percent, study suggests
- New hope for solving Parkinson's disease puzzle
- Large proportion of colorectal cancer deaths could be prevented, study suggests
- Surgical instruments with electronic serial numbers
- Beyond tender loving care: 'TLCs' promise health and happiness
- Sugar-sweetened drinks associated with higher blood pressure
- Vitamin D linked to lung cancer survival, study suggests
- Researchers develop curious snapshot of powerful retinal pigment and its partners
- Inability to shake regrets can have effects on physical health
- New personalized therapy causes cancer cells to kill themselves
- Compound useful for studying birth defects may also have anti-tumor properties
- Full bladder, better decisions? Controlling your bladder decreases impulsive choices
- More than 4,000 components of blood chemistry listed
- Neural circuits used in processing basic linguistic phrases identified
- Gene variant affects stroke prognosis in humans
- 'Stupid strategies' could be best for the genes
- Brain imaging provides window into consciousness
- Parts of brain can switch functions: In people born blind, brain regions that usually process vision can tackle language
- Genes associated with binge drinking identified
- Rituximab and fludarabine produce long-term remissions in some chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients, study suggests
- The influence of advertising on drug recommendations
- Free radicals may be good for you
- Acupressure effective in helping to treat traumatic brain injury, study suggests
- New marker found for Sanfilippo disease
- Storytelling program improves lives of people with Alzheimer's
Posted 2011-03-01:
- New pathogen connected to severe early childhood caries identified
- Antioxidants in pecans may contribute to heart health and disease prevention
- Two knee replacements may be better than one, study finds
- First aid training for children under five years old
- Binge eaters' dopamine levels spike at sight, smell of food
- More evidence that Alzheimer's disease may be inherited from your mother
- Learning from old bones to treat modern back pain
- Close linkage between a rare, deadly lung condition and blood cell abnormalities
- Lottery winners do not want their winnings to change them
- Human stem cells from fat tissue fuse with rat heart cells and beat
- Minimally invasive surgeries: Laser suturing
- Hearing loss rate in older adults climbs to more than 60 percent in national survey
- Being 'mindful' can neutralize fears of death and dying
- Willingness to listen to music is biological, study of gene variants suggests
- Drug to fight tumors also fights the flu and possibly other viruses
- Scientists generate pluripotent stem cells from horses
- Breast cancer incidence rates no longer declining in US women
- Napping may help with blood pressure management
- Immune molecule regulates brain connections
- Given prior to loud noise, two drugs protect hearing better than one
- Advanced degrees add up to lower blood pressure
- Nanomedicine: Gene fuelled transporter causes breast cancer cells to self-destruct
- Collisions of protein machines cause DNA replication derailment
- Potential treatment for Chikungunya discovered
- Most medical devices recalled because of serious risks did not undergo clinical trials
- Brain's 'reward' center also responds to bad experiences
- Why chemotherapy causes more infertility in women than in men
- Shining a light on trypanosome reproduction
- Ultrasound fusion imaging provides comparable accuracy for bone, soft tissue tumors
- Stress and tension do not stop fertility treatment from working, study finds
- Markedly higher vitamin D intake needed to reduce cancer risk, researchers say
- Novel methods for improved breast cancer survival
- Meningitis: Neisseria meningitidis disseminates itself by sending out 'scouts'
- Hip, thigh implants can raise bone fracture risk in children
- Strong link found between victimization, substance abuse
- Neighborhood barbers can influence black men to seek blood-pressure treatment
Posted 2011-02-28:
- PCBs may affect in vitro fertilization outcomes
- ‘Round-the-clock’ lifestyle could disrupt metabolism, brain and behavior
- Home urine test measures insulin production in diabetes
- Bisphenol A exposures lower in Canadians compared to Americans
- Scientists find gene responsible for color patterns in mice
- Discovery of killer cells has potential for targeted cancer therapies
- Heparin a key role player in allergy and inflammatory reactions
- High-quality care associated with lower cost in trauma
- Placebo effect works both ways: Beliefs about pain levels appear to override effects of potent pain-relieving drug
- Protein and microRNA block cellular transition vital to metastasis
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis can affect quality of life even when thyroid gland function is normal
- Planning and visualization lead to better food habits
Posted 2011-02-27:
- Transgenic fungi may be able to combat malaria and other bug-borne diseases
- New technology pinpoints genetic differences between cancer and non-cancer patients
- Bone drug zoledronic acid may help prevent spread of early lung cancer
- Making the 'irrelevant' relevant to understand memory and aging
- Nanotechnology may lead to new treatment of liver cancer
- Tweeting teenage songbirds reveal impact of social cues on learning
- Model for managing asthma in preschoolers leads to dramatic drop in ER visits and hospitalizations
- Happy children make happy adults
Posted 2011-02-26:
- Targeting T cells effectively blocks multiple sclerosis in mice
- Scientists find a new way insulin-producing cells die
- Staring contests are automatic: People lock eyes to establish dominance
- Newborn heart muscle can grow back by itself, study shows
- Low vitamin D levels linked to allergies in kids
- Simpler way of making proteins could lead to new nanomedicine agents
- HIV makes protein that may help virus's resurgence
- Redesign of US donor-liver network could boost transplants by several hundred per year
- Obesity and diabetes are a downside of human evolution, research suggests
- New long-acting local anesthetic derived from algae effectively blocks pain in surgical patients
- Multiple childbirth linked to increased risk of rare, aggressive 'triple-negative' breast cancer
- Chemical compounds in trees can fight deadly staph infections in humans
- Maternal fructose intake impacts female and male fetuses differently
- Stereotypes can deter consumer purchases
- Premature aging replicated in the lab
- Menopausal hot flashes may be a good sign for heart
- Fatty liver may herald impending Type 2 diabetes
- Producing clean water in an emergency
- Increased contraceptive supply linked to fewer unintended pregnancies
- Nerve bundles in visual cortex of the brain in blind people may process sense of touch
- Change in PSA level does not predict prostate cancer, study finds
- Prevalence of bunions increases with age; more common in women
- Analysis shows which people most likely found incompetent to stand trial
- Migrating cells flow like glass: Research advances understanding of wound healing, cancer metastasis, and embryonic development
- Cell pathway key to insulin resistance in Type 2 diabetes illuminated
- Protein could be new target to reduce damage after heart attack
- Most doctors do not know guidelines well, German study finds
- Making the web more accessible to people with disabilities and special needs
Posted 2011-02-25:
- Rare HIV-positive individuals shed light on how body could effectively handle infection
- Gene expression to distinguish metastasizing from non-metastasizing head and neck cancers
- Language patterns are roller-coaster ride during childhood development
- Alzheimer's disease may be easily misdiagnosed
- Whole fresh blood for transfusions may have a longer shelf life than now assumed
- Is dairy colostrum the key to Olympic success?
- Probiotic identified to treat ulcers
- Serotonin plays role in many autism cases, studies confirm
- New method powerfully boosts efficiency of RNA interference (RNAi) in shutting down genes
- Most 'locked-in syndrome' patients say they are happy
- Entire T-cell receptor repertoire sequenced revealing extensive and unshared diversity
- Bedside ultrasound becomes a reality
- Needle-in-a-haystack search identifies potential brain disease drug
- New clue to the genetics of bipolar disorder: Piccolo
- Hyperactive nerve cells may contribute to depression
- New finding in ribosome signaling may lead to improved antibiotics
- How metaphors shape the debate about crime fighting
- Steroids to treat asthma: How safe are they?
- Gender does not play a role in risk of death from heart attack, study suggests
- Link between unhealthy behaviors and socioeconomic status differs between countries
- Virus-mimicking nanoparticles can stimulate long-lasting immunity
- New vaccine technology protects mice from hepatitis C virus
- High vitamin-D bread could help solve widespread insufficiency problem
- Higher levels of compound in blood associated with lower risk of respiratory disease
- Secret society connecting through the Internet feeds eating disorders, researchers say
- Microbes help children breathe easily? Bacteria and fungi may offer protection against asthma, study suggests
- New biological pathway identified for post-traumatic stress disorder
- Learn to the rhythm: Nerve cells acting as metronomes are necessary for certain memory processes
- Vitamin E may increase or decrease the risk of pneumonia, depending on smoking and exercise
- Higher levels of social activity decrease the risk of developing disability in old age
- Versatile Ultra-low Power Biomedical Signal Processor
Posted 2011-02-24:
- Spinal fluid proteins distinguish Lyme disease from chronic fatigue syndrome
- Polygamy hurt 19th century Mormon wives' evolutionary fitness, scientists say
- New marker for heart disease identified in study of firefighters
- 3-D structure required for function of some vital cell transporters resolved
- For a better workday, smile like you mean it
- Scientists create illusion of having three arms
- Lasers ID deadly skin cancer better than doctors
- Protein fuels inflammation in pancreatic and breast tumors
- People with low self-esteem show more signs of prejudice
- Schizophrenia gene mutation found; Target for new drugs
- Pump that bacteria use to resist drugs described
- Pathway transforms normal cells into aggressive tumors
- Are we more -- or less -- moral than we think?
- Vaccine made with synthetic gene protects against deadly pneumonia
- Patients with COPD have higher risk of shingles, study finds
- Babies and toddlers can suffer mental illness, seldom get treatment
- Cell phone use may have effect on brain activity, but health consequences unknown
- Blood test may find markers of bladder cancer risk
- Protective strategy shields primate ovaries from radiation-therapy-induced damage
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