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Sleep Makes Your Memory Strong

... of word pairs to remember. The first word in each pair was the same on both lists, but the second word was different, testing the brain’s ability to handle competing information, known as interference. The interference groups were then tested on both lists. The study found that people who slept after l...

Discovery in Male Mice Gives Hope in Providing Clues to Find Infertility in Men

... production. The mutant allele (one version of the pair of genes we inherit from each parent) is dominant; females who carry it remain fertile but carry the defect and pass the mutation on to future generations. However, female carriers show higher rates of abnormalities during meiosis, which can potent...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

... surface would feel like at the nanoscale." The pair is still perfecting the modeling method, which employs an engineering tool called rapid prototyping. But eventually, Greenberg plans to test whether the models help blind students grasp nanoscience concepts, especially the complex ways in which data ...

Zodiac Signs Has No Impact on Finding the Right Partner

...ation of 10 million couples, then even if only one pair in 1,000 is influenced by the stars, you would have 10,000 more couples than expected with certain combinations of signs," explained Voas. "There's no such evidence though. The numbers are just what we'd predict on the basis of chance," he added. ...

'Smart' Sunglasses With Chameleon Powers

... were presented today in Chicago.// This single pair of glasses with lenses can be transparent or dark,...yer sheets to create a range of colors in a single pair of shades. "These are a little homemade," Xu said of the prototype, a modified pair of lab goggle...

Want a Good Night’s Sleep- Maternity Nurses to the Rescu

...th. 'Many new mothers find an experienced extra pair of hands is invaluable for helping with anything from breast feeding to getting the baby to sleep. The nurse can also offer emotional support and general advice.' At the same time, community midwives who are NHS tools meant to teach young mot...

Four-way Dengue Vaccine a 'success', Say Scientists

...for all four types of the virus. They produced a pair of synthetic vaccines, each containing genes from two of the four virus types. These successfully mimicked natural infection in mice, inducing an immune response against each of the four virus types at once. The research was published in the Februa...

New Drugs Shows Promise in Slowing the Progression of Prostate Cancer

...e HER2 receptor and inhibit the ability of HER2 to pair with other HER family members (HER1, HER2, HER3 and HER4). If the pairing process (called dimerization) is not interrupted, the binding of these growth factors activates an intracellular signaling pathway that leads to tumor proliferation. While o...

New Drug Promises Prolonged Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients

...e HER2 receptor and inhibit the ability of HER2 to pair with other HER family members (HER1, HER2, HER3 and HER4). If the pairing process (called dimerization) is not interrupted, the binding of these growth factors activates an intracellular signaling pathway that leads to tumor proliferation. While ot...

Bionic Eye may Restore Sight to the Blind

... converting images from a tiny camera mounted on a pair of glasses into a grid of 16 electrical signals that transmit directly to the nerve endings in the retina. The camera in the glasses sends a wireless signal to a pea-sized pocket device, which processes the images in real time into a four by four ...

Cochlear Implants in Both Ears Enables Better Hearing

...'s very, very hard,' she says. To test whether a pair of cochlear implants aids this ability, Litovsky's team has, to date, studied 55 deaf children who received a second implant one to seven years after being fitted with their first.When the research began, it appeared the group of 5 to 14 year-olds co...

A New Two-gene Test to Discern Similar Gastrointestinal Cancers

...erful two-gene test that can distinguish between a pair of nearly identical gastrointestinal// cancers tha...r, the researchers instead analyzed every possible pair of genes, says first author Nathan Price, Ph.D., research scientist at the Institute for Systems Bio...

Master Switches Found for Adult Blood Stem Cells

...of Sciences. To halt protein assembly, microRNAs pair up with matching full-length RNA, then fold and tw...ntas and Civin currently are testing whether these pair predictions are valid by using a non-reproducing virus to insert genetic instructions for each of th...

Males Adapt To Battle With Competing Sperm

...seem unlikely. But according to the authors, extra pair copulations (i.e. affairs) appear to be a significant part of our ancestral history and could, evolutionarily speaking, spell disaster. Ultimately, a male whose female partner engages in extra-pair copulation is at risk of unwittingly investing his r...

The Other Side of Transsexuals

...DS awareness campaigner from Vellore and pledged a pair of eyes along with 3,000 others under the aegis of the Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative (TAI), a body affiliated to the state's Voluntary Health Services. The mass eye donation by the 'aravanis' (those with half a voice) - as transvestites are called in...

Salk Scientists - Links Between Cancer and Aging

... painting. This technique 'paints' or labels every pair of the 46 chromosomes with a different colored fluorescent dye, enabling investigators to easily see breakage or fusion of chromosomes that are characteristic of damaged DNA under the microscope. Then they artificially supplied the cultured cells w...

Severe Form of “Enlarged Prostate” Disease Discoverd

... and frequent urination, is not one but at least a pair of disorders, and that one of the pair — tied to a newly identified gene — has far more serious implications. In a study published in the...

Lead With a Poisonous Electron Shield

... The reason for this is the emerging free electron pair of the lead cation. It acts as an electronic shield on one side, pushing away the fourth ligand. Such a dramatic geometrical distortion at the active center could explain why lead inhibits this enzyme. The different behavior of lead in these two en...

A New Strategy to Control Breast Cancer

...) acts like a “molecular scissors” that releases a pair of ligands, called Amphiregulin and TGF-alpha, from the cell surface. These ligands activate EGFR. EGFR, which stands for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, is the protein on the outer surface of a cell that is activated by EGF and related growth fa...

Gere Jives To Bollywood Songs To Spread AIDS Awareness

...ndia's entertainment capital. Gere, dressed in a pair of black trousers, matching shirt and a brown jacket, danced to Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu's "Beedi Jalaile" to the delight of the mixed gathering of the commercial sex workers and the glitterati at the MMRDA grounds at the Bandra-Kurla complex. ...

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