Tag: "passion" at biology news

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...ex are the same, or different, or whether romantic passion is just warmed over sexual arousal." He said, "Our...ng and integrating many motivating stimuli. "This passion may be an excellent example of how a complex human behavioral state is processed. Moreover, taken to...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

... to them? Go ahead and eat chocolate. Indulge your passion for spicy cuisine. Drink red wine. Enjoy coffee when you want it, have that orange juice with breakfast and, what the heck, eat a grapefruit, too. Gerson says that for most heartburn patients, there's insufficient evidence to support the notion that ...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

... the Department of Defense, Finegold has taken his passion for research and applied it to a problem that affects civilians as well as injured service members: wound bacteria. "The flora of wound infections is very complex," he said. "At times there can be 12 or more organisms present, and most clinical lab...

One-of-a-kind imaging probe reveals secrets useful for drug discovery

...because it combined lead researcher Aaron Dossey's passion for studying insects with his formal training in biochemistry. "I've raised different species of walking sticks, which are well known to spray defensive venom," Dossey said. "We thought if this technique really can look at small samples, well, a mil...

Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories

...tle the debate, however. "There's just too much passion on this issue. People who are inclined to believe what we're talking about will say this is very strong evidence, and say 'let's have more.' The archaeologists will say this study only examines two districts." Bush himself calls the paper, co-auth...

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