Do brain connections help shape religious beliefs?
2014-01-27
New Rochelle, NY, January 27, 2014—Building on previous evidence showing that religious belief involves cognitive activity that can be mapped to specific brain regions, a new study has ...
NIH grantees develop way to make old antibiotic work against TB
2014-01-27
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Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the ...
Put a plastic bag in your tank
2014-01-27
Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain kinds of plastic waste into liquid fuel as a way to re-use discarded plastic bags and other products. They ...
Researchers find changes to protein SirT1
2014-01-27
Researchers find changes to protein SirT1 can prevent excess metabolic stress associated with obesity, diabetes and aging.
Studies ...
Severity of spatial neglect after stroke predicts long-term mobility recovery in community
2014-01-27
West Orange, NJ. ...
Expanding our view of vision
2014-01-27
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Every time you open your eyes, visual information flows into your brain, which interprets what you're seeing. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have noninvasively mapped this flow of information ...
Nipping diabetes in the blood
2014-01-27
An estimated 25.8 million Americans have diabetes. Another 79 million are thought to have "prediabetes," meaning they are at ...
Quality of white matter in the brain is crucial for adding and multiplying
2014-01-27
A new study led by Professor Bert De Smedt (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven) ...
A natural sugar delivers DNA aptamer drug inside tumor cells
2014-01-27
New Rochelle, NY, January 27, 2014—Drugs comprised of single strands of DNA, called aptamers, can bind to targets inside tumor cells causing cell death. But these DNA ...
Solving a 30-year-old problem in massive star formation
2014-01-27
An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe.
Young massive ...
Successful regeneration of human skeletal muscle in mice
2014-01-27
Baltimore, Md. (January 27, 2014) – Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute recently announced study findings showing ...
Good outcomes with staged surgery for epilepsy in children
2014-01-27
Philadelphia, Pa. (January 27, 2014) – A staged approach to epilepsy surgery—with invasive brain monitoring ...
Mayo Clinic study finds standardized protocol and surgery improve mortality outcomes
2014-01-27
MANKATO, Minn. — Jan. 27, 2014 — For patients who have experienced a large stroke that ...
HIV medications dialogue differs by race, ethnicity
2014-01-27
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A lot of evidence shows that a patients' race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, ...
Study identifies high level of 'food insecurity' among college students
2014-01-27
CORVALLIS, Ore. – One of the few studies of its type has found that a startling 59 percent of college students at one Oregon university were "food insecure" at ...
Graphene-like material made of boron a possibility, experiments suggest
2014-01-27
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility.
Graphene has been heralded ...
Drug to reverse breast cancer spread in development
2014-01-27
Researchers at Cardiff University are developing a novel compound known to reverse the spread of malignant breast cancer ...
Blue eyes and dark skin, that's how the European hunter-gatherer looked
2014-01-27
La Braña 1, name used to baptize a 7,000 years ...
Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers
2014-01-27
University researchers from two continents ...
Sensitivity of carbon cycle to tropical temperature variations has doubled, research shows
2014-01-27
The tropical carbon cycle has become ...
Cleveland Clinic researchers discover process that turns 'good cholesterol' bad
2014-01-27
Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered the process by ...
Shortening guide RNA markedly improves specificity of CRISPR-Cas nucleases
2014-01-27
A simple adjustment to a powerful gene-editing tool may be able to improve its specificity. In a report receiving advance online publication in Nature Biotechnology, Massachusetts ...
How does the brain create sequences?
2014-01-27
When you learn how to play the piano, first you have to learn notes, scales and chords and only then will you be able to play a piece of music. The same ...
Long-lived breast stem cells could retain cancer legacy
2014-01-27
Researchers from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered that breast stem cells and their 'daughters' have a much longer lifespan than previously thought, and are active in puberty ...
Music therapy's positive effects on young cancer patients' coping skills, social integration
2014-01-27
A new study has found that adolescents and young adults undergoing cancer treatment gain coping skills and resilience-related outcomes when they participate in a therapeutic music ...
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