Association found between Parkinson's disease and pesticide exposure in French farm workers
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...tdoctoral fellow in biology at the University of Utah, and Elodie Magnanou, who held the same position until March 2008 and now is at Pierre and Marie curie University in France. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation. 'A Tale of Two Poisons' Human plant consumption is healthy...MIT: How you feel the world impacts how you see it
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...h to humans. Weston and co-authors from the Max Planck Institute of Immunology in Germany and the French National Scientific Research Centre at the curie Institute document their potentially textbook-changing case in an article appearing online this week (May 19-23) ahead of regular publication in the P...Key found to moonlight romance
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...eanography, University of California, San Diego; and the Pierre & Marie curie University, were published this week in the Proceedings of the National Aca...on," said collaborator and co-author Hervé Moreau of the Pierre & Marie curie University Oceanic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-mer, France. "This active ab...Scientists discover new life forms in the Arctic Ocean
..." The other members of the team responsible for this discovery are Fabrice Not, Khadidja Romari, and Daniel Vaulot from Université Pierre et Marie curie (France); Klaus Valentin, Kerstin Töbe, and Linda Medlin from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Germany); and Ramon Massana ...Hospital named for Madame Curie installs TomoTherapy system
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