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Personality Traits Linked to Late-Life Depression Risk

“We assume that because depression has not developed for people with these personality traits by the age of 70 that it won’t develop,” said Paul R. Duberstein,…

Health & Medicine

Macadamia Nuts: A Heart-Healthy Addition to Your Diet

“We looked at macadamia nuts because they are not currently included in the health claim for tree nuts, while other tree nuts are currently recommended as part…

Studies and Analyses

MRI Outperforms MDCT in Detecting Endoleaks in Aneurysms

“Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms has become a viable alternative treatment to open surgery for many patients. Endoleak development represents…

Studies and Analyses

Mammography and Sonography: Better Detection of Breast Cancer

“We were interested in finding out just how effective mammography and sonography were, when used together, in excluding breast cancer in women with palpable…

Medical Engineering

New Study: Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Lymph Node Aspiration

“We wanted to determine which patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer would benefit most from preoperative fine needle aspiration of the axillary lymph…

Life & Chemistry

Embryonic Stem Cells: A Solution for Immune Rejection Issues

Speaking at the conference in Edinburgh, Dr Paul Fairchild from the University of Oxford will tell delegates that although tissues derived from ES cells…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Earth’s Mantle: A Two-Billion-Year Discovery

Uncovering a rare, two-billion-year-old window into the Earth’s mantle, a University of Houston professor and his team have found our planet’s geological…

Life & Chemistry

Mayo Clinic Uncovers Key Protein Target for Liver Cancer Survival

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center leads the field in researching the impact and effect of SULF1, a protein whose normal role is to degrade heparin sulfate…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers discover 'modus operandi' of heart muscle protein

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a protein called leiomodin (Lmod) promotes the assembly of an important…

Life & Chemistry

Blood Vessels Guide Nerve Cell Growth, New Protein Discovery

“We’re excited to have stumbled across another family of proteins that can tell a growing nerve which way to grow,” says David Ginty, Ph.D., a professor of…

Life & Chemistry

New Study: College Students Trade Sex for Resources

New research shows that even affluent college students who don't need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions, said Daniel Kruger,…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Cellular Death and Aging Process Explained

Protein researchers at the Ruhr University on the team from Junior Professors Dr. Clemens Steegborn and Dr. Dirk Wolters have clarified a complex safety…

Earth Sciences

German Researcher Joins Arctic Drift Expedition NP 35

For the first time, a German has taken part in a Russian drift expedition and has explored the atmosphere above the central Arctic during the polar night. Jürgen Graeser, a member of the Potsdam Research Unit of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, has just returned home to Germany. As a member of the Russian expedition NP 35 (35. North Pole Drift Expedition), which consisted of 21 persons, he has spent seven months on a drifting ice floe in the Arctic. …

Information Technology

‘Big Sister’ to enhance learning

Dr Mark Weal at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) is designing a software solution which will make it possible for nursing…

Health & Medicine

Distant Healing Breakthrough for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

409 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) were randomized from 14 private practices for environmental medicine in Germany and Austria in a two by two…

Health & Medicine

Differentiating Attention Problems in Dementia vs. Aging

Attention models view attention as having at least two components: endogenous attention defined as executive and directed by voluntary acts, and exogenous…

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