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Selectivity is ultimate aphrodisiac

...individuals. Immediately following each date, they completed a two-minute questionnaire, answering items such as "I really liked my interaction partner" and "I was sexually attracted to my interaction partner." After returning home, they recorded on the study Web site whether they would be interested in ...

Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent

... 360-degree virtual-reality computer lab now being completed at the University of Rochester....

Male owls pitch their hoots to advertise body weight to competitors

...ring mate choice," says Loïc Hardouin who recently completed a PhD on acoustic communication and territoriality in owls. "The next step is to see whether females use these quality cues when they choose their mating partner." "The vocal communication of owls has interesting similarities to that of terrestrial m...

MIT's ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

...y particular area. What emerged after the model completed its 10-year virtual evolution -which took four to five days on a cluster of parallel computers-is a phytoplankton community with members that are characteristic of observed phytoplankton communities, including plants similar to prochlorococcus that a...

Switching genes to overdrive improves muscular dystrophy symptoms in mice

...r one hour, then again 24 hours later. Normal mice completed the runs easily on both days, while untreated MDX rodents were exhausted halfway through each run. The MDX mice with increased PGC-1alpha activity performed almost as well as normal mice on the first day; their performances decreased on the second da...

No magic tomato? Study breaks link between lycopene and prostate cancer prevention

...ning of the trial, the men gave a blood sample and completed a questionnaire related to their health, diet and lifestyle. The researchers focused on non-Hispanic Caucasian men, as the small number of cases among other ethnic groups was statistically insignificant. They found no significant difference betw...

Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals

...c Counselors Technical Reports Review Subcommittee completed its independent peer review of the sodium dichromate dihydrate research report. Sodium dichromate dihydrate is an inorganic compound containing hexavalent chromium that was used in the NTP studies. The NTP is located at the NIEHS, part of the Nationa...

Scientists seek useful traits in wild cottons

...their cotton research since 2004. The facility was completed and came on-line in 2003. "We have developed several reliable methods for screening obsolete and wild cottons for several positive, heritable traits," Gannaway said. "The data from these experiments should give molecular breeders more...

Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch

...ither agent alone. In addition, other studies completed in the past year have shown Reolysin has the ability to prime patients' immune systems against their particular cancer, leading to additional cancer cell killing. It is through this second "inflammatory" mechanism that researchers hope Reolysin will ...

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

... "This treatment is ideal for older women who have completed their families and have a single or limited number of fibroids," said co-author Clare M. Tempany, M.D., professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of Clinical Focused Ultrasound at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The researchers s...

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