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Astrobiology

...ished science. A xenobiologist is usually a human doctor or biologist who is expert on the physiology of alien organisms and life forms. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview 2 Search for extraterrestrial life 3 See also 4 External links Overview Although th...

Nutrition

... by professionals. You are advised to contact your doctor for health-related decisions....

Memory

... are triggered by a time-cue, such as going to the doctor (action) at 4pm (cue). Event-based prospective memories are intentions triggered by cues, such as remembering to post a letter (action) after seeing a mailbox (cue). Cues do not need to be related to the action (as the mailbox example is), and lists,...

Marcello Malpighi

...turned to university after two years, and became a doctor of medicine in 1653 . He married Francesca Massari , younger sister of his anatomy professor, the next year. She unfortunately died a year later. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Academic career 2 Research 3 Years in Ro...

Malaria

...his discovery of the cause of malaria, French army doctor Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907 . Symptoms of malaria include fever , shivering , arthralgia (joint pain), vomiting , and convulsions . There may be the feeling of tingling in ...

Long-term potentiation

...mice, nicknamed "Doogie mice" after the precocious doctor Doogie Howser , had larger long-term potentiation and excelled at spatial learning tasks, once again suggesting LTP's involvement in the formation of hippocampal-dependent memories. Related topics learning long-term depression memor...

Hepatitis B

...Treatment strategies should be individualized by a doctor and patient. Considerations include the risks associated with each treatment, a person's likelihood of clearing the virus with treatment, a person's risk for developing complications of persistent infection, and development of viral resistance with ...

Genetic fingerprinting

... 1992 , DNA evidence was used to prove that Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was buried in Brazil as Wolfgang Gerhard. The science was made famous in the United States in 1994 when prosecutors heavily relied on and through expert witnesses exhaustively presented and explained DNA evidence allegedly link...

Edward Jenner

... - January 26 , 1823 ) was an English country doctor practicing in Berkeley, Gloucestershire , England , famous for his work introducing the Smallpox vaccine . Jenner's early education included a spell at Cirencester Grammar School , where one of the school 'houses' was named after him in late...

Down syndrome

... It is named for John Langdon-Down , the British doctor who first described it. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview 2 Medical research 3 Down syndrome's sociology 4 Notable individuals 5 Down syndrome in fiction 6 Further Reading 7 External links O...

Diabetes mellitus

...h screening, (2) detection of hyperglycemia when a doctor is investigating a complication of longstanding, u...cially useful for the diabetic to present to their doctor or physician in the monitoring and control of the disease. Failure to maintain a strict regimen of t...

Full blood count

...ete blood count ( CBC ) is a test requested by a doctor or other medical professional that gives information about the cells in a patient's blood. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Automated blood count 2 Manual blood count 3 Results from a blood count 3.1 Red cells 3.2...