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Cholesterol drugs improve strange heart problem

...ed to lower cholesterol levels appear to improve a mysterious type of heart disease with an unknown cause. The disease, known as idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC), results in an enlarged heart that doesn't pump properly. Unlike the most common type of heart disease, IDC is not due to a blockage of the cor...

Death Of Singaporean Woman After Mysterious Illness

Police are investigating the mysterious death of a woman whose entire body turned black//, skin peeled off and blood oozed from her ears in an ordeal that started with a simple fever, news reports said Thursday. Reeling from shock and disbelief, the family of June Wong, 26, is demanding ...

Mystery of nacrolepsy uncovered

...eakthrough in the understanding of one of the most mysterious of medical conditions - narcolepsy. Narcolepsy suffers fall asleep anywhere, at any time of day without warning. At other times sufferers remain conscious, but their entire body goes limp and they are unable to move.// Now researchers have identifie...

Learning process to be regulated by altering brain protein

..., is critical for gaining further insight into the mysterious mechanisms that causes neurodegenerative disease. ...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

...could change into some other form while giving off mysterious rays was electrifying to both the scientific community and the public. The public wanted radiation in everything, and business was happy to satisfy the craving. Radium was made available in the form of drink, toothpaste, and cigarette holder. Radio...

Forensic Phonetics – Scientific Solution for Legal Problem

...n unfulfilled task, more so, in the case of sudden mysterious // deaths. In the course of solving practical and legal issues in such situations, the pursuit of forensic medicine has been a promising one. The origin of forensic medicine, the science that deals with determining causes, manner and circumstances ...

Mysterious viral outbreak in Toronto, influenza ruled out

...ve been admitted." Earlier this month there was a mysterious illness that claimed four lives at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged in Scarborough. Health officials admit that they have yet to track down the cause for these deaths. "In fact, many of the patients still being managed at the Seven Oaks facility ... ...

Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates

...ble to hair loss, and struggling to understand the mysterious biology behind it. For example, how can men lose hair on the top of their heads while their beards and even eyelashes keep going strong? Black men are far less susceptible, but about a third of 30-year-old white men have signs of what doctors call m...

Mysterious Death Of Seabirds Triggers Bird Flu Concern

The mysterious death of several seabirds on the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia has triggered concerns that these dead birds could be harboring the bird flu virus//. However, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service said that there was no cause for panic...

Human neurons grown in the brains of mice

...to discover how brain disorders develop out of the mysterious interaction of neurons and their surroundings. The question is whether a diseased environment influences nondiseased cells, or diseased cells hurt a healthy, intact environment. In this context, two types of experiments are envisioned: Healthy ...

Avian flu scare in Malawi too!!

...Someone alerted police that people are feasting on mysterious manna from heaven. We sent officials to caution the people not to eat them since they may have the avian flu which has proved deadly to humans in other countries.' The H5N1 strain of bird flu has ravaged poultry stocks across Asia since 2003, killi...

Possibility Of Bird Flu Outbreak In South Africa Ruled Out

The mysterious death of swallows in Malawi had raised fears about the possibility of a bird flu outbreak in South Africa. However, test reports // have revealed a negative bird flu infection status of the dead swallows, much to relief of veterinary officials. // ...

Search For Bigfoot Creature To Be Delayed

...tigators (SPI). The media in Malaysia had reported mysterious bite marks and footprints, which had prompted Singapore to dispatch a team of 20 members to solve it. Three of the creatures, reportedly three meters tall are reported to have been seen by the local people. The footprints of the creatures measure up ...

Gene Bias: Onomastics of Shared Surnames among Men Reveals Genetic links

...ess // to a Man; researchers, have now unearthed a mysterious link, that traces the branches of a family tree to common Surnames. DNA of 150 pairs of men with shared British surnames was compared to reveal that at least 25% of the pairs had a genetic link. The Y chromosome provides this link, from the father...

Orissa Affected By Mysterious Fever

... 3,000 people in the steel town were affected by a mysterious viral fever. The fever was first reported in a small group at a slum// cluster in Panposh on the outskirts of Rourkela, famous for its steel plant, Monday. Since then, it has rapidly spread to other parts of the town. The high fever is accompanie...

Bird Flu Not The Cause For Mysterious Bird Deaths

The mysterious deaths of hundreds of birds in Peshawar and adjacent areas have been cleared of bird flu. // Sending hundreds of blood samples to the National Veterinary Research Laboratory, Islamabad for testing the Livestock Disease Investigation chief said that n...

A hard nut to crack …

... throat and right into the lungs, which detected a mysterious black blob. The blob was pulled out using an instrument resembling a claw that was attached to the camera. Derek Kirchen , absolutely flummoxed, but greatly relieved said 'I just don't know how it got there. It's a complete mystery. When I came roun...

Scientists Discover New RNAs in Mouse Testicles

...ther the new RNAs might beassociated with a set of mysterious yet important proteins, calledPiwi proteins, which are expressed in the testicles, and when shutoff, mice are unable to make normal sperm. The scientists pulled individual Piwi proteins out of mouse testis andchecked what came along with them and f...

Growth Factors Help Neurons to Reach Their Correct Destination

...showed that they were indeed the long sought-after mysterious substance,’ says Pfaff. Neural stem cells can now be coaxed to develop into motor neurons in a test tube. In that artificial environment, explains Pfaff, ‘Most external cues that guide immature motor neurons during embryonic development will be mi...

Timing of Food Consumption Activates Genes in Specific Brain Area

...ealtime. “This might be an entrance to the whole mysterious arena of how metabolic conditions in an animal can synchronize themselves with a body clock,” said Dr. Masashi Yanagisawa, professor of molecular genetics and senior author of the study. The UT Southwestern researchers report their findings in the ...

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