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Tag: "characteristic" at medical news

Biology, Not Only Parents, Turns Sweet Kids into Delinquents

... interaction of family adversity with a biological characteristic is associated with longitudinally measured change in childhood personality. The study appears in the June issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science....

Revealing the Secrets of Gut Ecosystem

...ommunities converged toward a more generic profile characteristic of the adult intestine. The new study, the authors noted, might bring some clarity to the factors that shape the composition of the microbial communities in the infant intestinal tract. For example, there are conflicting studies about Bifidobacteri...

Imphal Hosts Cycle Rally to Spread Drug Abuse Awareness

...ug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. Adorning characteristic yellow colour T-shirts, participants are cycling down the streets of Imphal to send across the message on dangers of consuming drugs. Over 350 cyclists and 200 volunteers are participating in the rally. The rally will pass through seven districts ...

Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute

...viour, paranoia, grandiosity and mania", these are characteristic of cases of the advanced stage, neuro-syphilis, Dr Morrell wrote in his diary. Dr Habeeb, who works at Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington, said though experts had previously explored the possibility that Hitler had syphilis, this was the first time ...

Key Signaling Molecules in New Teeth Formation Identified

... genes, Activin and Follistatin, contribute to the characteristic asymmetry of rodent incisors, which are covered by enamel only on their labial (front) side. Subtle variations in this or related regulatory networks may explain the different regenerative capacities and asymmetric development of various organs and...

Autoimmune Response in Multiple Sclerosis

...chers have been working to determine what specific characteristic of these destructive T cells is dominant in driving the development of EAE/MS. In a study appearing online on July 12 in advance of publication in the August print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Eli Sercarz and colleagues from the T...

Late Nights may Make Preteens Antisocial and Aggressive

...n at Penn State who are trying to understand how a characteristic titled 'morningness/eveningness', along with the ratio of cortisol readings taken in the morning and afternoon, influences young adolescent behaviour. In humans, cortisol is responsible for regulating various behavioural traits such as the fight-fl...

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...ey cells start to die and the mice develop all the characteristic disease symptoms. It is the first time that a mouse model reveals increased cell death as the mechanism underpinning kidney degeneration in NPHP. The genetic cause is a mutation in a gene called GLIS2. GLIS2 normally prevents cell death in the a...

Boffins Identify Gene That can Protect Humans from Nephronopthisis

...ey cells start to die and the mice develop all the characteristic disease symptoms. It is the first time that a mouse model reveals increased cell death as the mechanism underpinning kidney degeneration in NPHP. The genetic cause is a mutation in a gene called GLIS2," Nature Genetics quoted Mathias Treier, group le...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

...rion lacks a rich supply of these amino acids -- a characteristic it shares with the prion-forming protein in mammals, which is otherwise dissimilar. The researchers showed, by fusing the prion-forming domain of the fungal protein to a reporter protein, that the fungal prion could propagate in yeast. "We showed...

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