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Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics
...ing around electrical wires. Nerve cells also have shorter and more numerous fibres or processes called dendrites with many fine branching processes ?similar to the root system of a tree ?that allow them to 'talk' with neighbouring neurons, often as many as five to 10,000 at a time." Alcohol appears to be p...Lands surface change on Alaska tundra creating longer, warmer summers in Arctic
...es in weather and vegetation." Because there is a shorter period of snow on the ground, solar radiation is absorbed by the land surface more readily and contributes to heating, thus accelerating the melting of snow and allowing for more plant growth. Over time, as the permafrost begins to melt, ancient orga...Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals
...an their purebred counterparts, "hybrid males have shorter lives than purebreds," the paper also reports. The authors suspect many of the males are killed by older purebred males in the area. Others migrate into areas with "fewer cats but other dangers from human settlement," Pimm said. "Young males get into...Neanderthal teeth grew no faster than comparable modern humans'
...ting to them that a Neanderthal childhood would be shorter than our own. But Guatelli-Steinberg's team want...n populations ?a conclusion that did not support a shorter childhood for the Neanderthals. Enticing though it may be, these new findings haven't convinced th...Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery
...urn to normal activities much more quickly, with a shorter hospital stay. We also found a reduced use of pain medications after robotic surgery, with fewer complications," said Dr. John F. Boggess, gynecological oncologist, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UNC's School of Medicine and a me...Screen all at risk for HIV, plus pregnant women
...urn to normal activities much more quickly, with a shorter hospital stay. We also found a reduced use of pain medications after robotic surgery, with fewer complications," said Dr. John F. Boggess, gynecological oncologist, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UNC's School of Medicine and a me...Scientists find a maturity gene in fly
...oo soon, and became prepupae that were lighter and shorter than normal. * The gene also is needed for the early stages of metamorphosis to proceed; it plays a role in turning on and off other genes that control metamorphosis in response to a steroid hormone named ecdysone, which is emitted by a gland as...MWG Biotech expands siMAX?siRNA portfolio with new scales, lengths and design tools
...oo soon, and became prepupae that were lighter and shorter than normal. * The gene also is needed for the early stages of metamorphosis to proceed; it plays a role in turning on and off other genes that control metamorphosis in response to a steroid hormone named ecdysone, which is emitted by a gland as...FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk
...urn to normal activities much more quickly, with a shorter hospital stay. We also found a reduced use of pain medications after robotic surgery, with fewer complications," said Dr. John F. Boggess, gynecological oncologist, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UNC's School of Medicine and a me...Tiny roundworm's telomeres help scientists to tease apart different types of aging
...d species like humans have telomeres that are much shorter than the telomeres in species like mice, which liv...id worm populations with short telomeres exhibit a shorter life span. On the other hand, long-lived and short-lived mutant worms could have them either way wit......onkeys thought that a stimulus that was 50 percent shorter was vibrating at just a slightly lower frequency than it was--not 50 percent lower. To find the cause of this discrepancy, they recorded electrical activity in single neurons of the primary somatosensory cortex. Since the shortened stimulus had pro...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...r health from radiation exposure and a belief in a shorter life expectancy. Anxiety over the health effects of radiation shows no signs of diminishing and may even be spreading. Life expectancy has been declining across the former Soviet Union, due to cardiovascular disease, injuries and poisoning, and not r...MicroRNA gene that regulates lifespan found by Yale scientists
...ion in lin-4 had a lifespan that was significantly shorter than normal, suggesting that lin-4 prevents premature death. Conversely, over-expressing lin-4 led to a longer lifespan. They also found that a loss–of-function mutation in lin-14, the target of lin-4, caused the opposite effect -- a 31 percent longe...A little telomerase isn't enough
...arts out with chromosomes whose telomeres are even shorter than their parents, the researchers report. The failure of telomerase to lengthen these telomeres explains why successive generations develop the physical symptoms of the disease at younger ages than their parents or grandparents, say the researchers...Why Christmas trees are not extinct
...hrough firs, pines and other conifers are 10 times shorter than those in flowering trees. But a University of...f a meter. The bottom line is that conifers have shorter conduits and fewer valves, both of which would increase resistance to water flow, "but they compensa...Penn Surgeons Use Completely Robotic Surgery to Successfully Treat Prostate Cancer
...: less pain and scarring, diminished blood loss, a shorter hospital stay and reduced recovery period for a quicker return to daily activities. The actual robot consists of a tower that manipulates instruments controlled from a console that is situated a few feet from the patient. At the console, the surgeo...Scientists learn to predict protein-stabilizing ability of small molecules
...: less pain and scarring, diminished blood loss, a shorter hospital stay and reduced recovery period for a quicker return to daily activities. The actual robot consists of a tower that manipulates instruments controlled from a console that is situated a few feet from the patient. At the console, the surgeo...Changes to embryos can elicit change in adult fish
...e closing in-lever gets longer, the out-lever gets shorter and vice-versa," explained Streelman. "When the in-lever is long, this gives the jaw a high mechanical advantage and the jaw can produce more force for biting. When the out-lever is long, that results in a lower mechanical advantage and a better de...How the neuron sprouts its branches
...hich grow a single long "apical" dendrite and many shorter ones. To explore the role of Golgi outposts, they used imaging of living rat brain cells grown in culture, as well as electron microscopy of rat brain tissue. These studies revealed that the Golgi outposts tended to appear in longer dendrites and al......searchers said such stress reduction could lead to shorter hospital stays -- with corresponding lower medical bills -- and a reduced risk of infections among patients. The researchers focused on a group of 42 married couples who had been together an average of at least 12 years. Each couple was admitted in...Other Tagsfinding 2finding 3finding 4finding 5finding 6finding 7finding 8finding 9finding 10give 2give 3give 4give 5give 6give 7give 8give 9give 10teams 2teams 3teams 4teams 5teams 6teams 7teams 8teams 9teams 10rescue 2rescue 3rescue 4rescue 5trials 2trials 3trials 4trials 5trials 6trials 7trials 8trials 9trials 10tricks 2regions 2regions 3regions 4regions 5regions 6regions 7regions 8regions 9regions 10analyzing 2analyzing 3analyzing 4analyzing 5analyzing 6analyzing 7systematically 2systematically 3systematically 4Other Contentshyperthyroidismhypertrophyhypertrophyhypnotichyperuricemiahypnosishypnosishyperventilation
(Date:12/3/2009)Our ability to learn new information and adapt to changes in our daily environment, as well as to retain lifelong memories, appears to lie in the minute junctions where nerve cells communicate, accord
(Date:12/3/2009)PHILADELPHIA Now in its 32nd year, the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium continues to attract the best in breast cancer science and world leaders from industry and academia with the goal
(Date:12/3/2009)Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault. , Scientists have long known that opium-like painkillers, called opioids, relieve not only phys
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(Date:12/4/2009)WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 While Congress debates whether health care reform would control health care costs, Leapfrog,s purchaser members point to 45 hospitals that lead through example -- delivering the be
(Date:12/4/2009)Late recurrence is a risk for some pediatric cancers, particularly Ewing sarcomas and tumors of the central nervous system, according to a new study published online December 4 in the Journal of the
(Date:12/4/2009)Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia have shown that a protein made by a gene called "Twist" may be the proverbial red flag that can accuratel
(Date:12/4/2009)More than 15 million Americans are recruited annually to participate in clinical trials according to the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), and most will be compensated for their participa
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