Otx2 helps a key type of cell in the cortex to mature, initiating a critical period — a window of heightened brain plasticity, when the brain can readily make…
Their findings narrow the search for the elusive ancestral clues known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, that cause disease and account for the…
In chemistry as in life, threesomes are not known to break up neatly.And while open-minded thinkers have insisted that clean three-way splits do happen, nobody…
Many people pay more than a third more for organic food in the belief that it has more nutritional content than food grown with pesticides and chemicals. But…
Researchers tested three popular retail scenarios, and the technology yielded read-rate percentages at or near 100 percent with one or more combinations of…
Women who use a lot of household cleaning products when they are pregnant, or shortly after giving birth, are increasing their child’s risk of developing…
The new research, published today (4 August 2008) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), studies why the human brain has difficulty…
Professor Kin-Chow Chang, of the University’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, is leading a three-year study into two different muscle fibre types…
Competitive divers strive to gracefully enter the water without making a splash however these athletes, including the future Beijing 2008 Olympians, are not…
“While adverse reactions to iodinated contrast media are rare, they are encountered regularly by all physicians who administer contrast material to patients…
The size of the effect on longevity is comparable to that of smoking or not. This is concluded from an analysis of 30 follow-up studies published in the latest…
Phytochemicals are non-nutritive plant chemicals that have protective properties against diseases. Some phytochemicals have antioxidant properties which…
In a six-month study patients who were found to be depressed had a 7% increased chance of dying and this percentage increased depending on the severity of the…
The study, by the Trauma Audit Research Network (TARN) at The University of Manchester, looked at all penetrating trauma injuries that resulted in immediate…
The study is a breakthrough in determining how these compounds can cause reproductive health problems, as well as in providing a key building block for how to…
This according to a study by Krister Håkansson, researcher in psychology at Växjö University and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The results were presented for…
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