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3-D ultrasound scanner provides in-depth view of the brain

...ring a side view, the brain probe "looks" straight ahead by emitting ultrasound waves like water from a hose. That way, it can produce an image of the brain with just the tip inserted through the skull. The researchers demonstrated that the brain scanner can successfully image the brain of a dog. Guided...

Children of smokers have more than 5 times higher levels of a nicotine toxin

... and the University of Leicester, published online ahead of print in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Having a mother that smokes was found to have the biggest independent effect on cotinine in the urine – quadrupling it. Having a smoking father doubled the amount of cotinine, one of chemicals produced...

Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, says 12-year review

...p” says Dr Dolan. “It is important that we plan ahead so that we are able to care for patients with skin cancer without compromising other chronic dermatological diseases.” The authors – from the Dermatology Department at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Queen’s University Belfast - say that thei...

Pesticides choke pathway for nature to produce nitrogen for crops

...d growth. In a paper appearing online this week ahead of the regular publication by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the five-member team reports that agrichemicals bind to and block connections to specific receptors (NodD) inside rhizobia bacteria living in root nodules in th...

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