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Weighed down by guilt: Research shows it’s more than a metaphor

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Categories Brain & Behavior

Electric fish may hold answers to better understanding of sensory abilities and movement

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Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Portable, less costly peritoneal dialysis shows no additional catheter risk factors

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DALLAS — March 3, 2011 — Patients with end-stage renal disease who opt for peritoneal dialysis experience no greater risk of catheter infection than those who undergo hemodialysis, a retrospective study at UT Southwestern Medical Center has foun…

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Dude, you throw like a crybaby!

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A UCLA — University of Glasgow study of baseball tosses has found that body language is more likely to be judged as masculine when it seems to convey anger and as feminine when is seems to convey sadness.
Researchers videotaped actors, both mal…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology

Discovery of source of glycogen ‘manufacturing’ errors sheds light on fatal disease

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Indiana University scientists have solved a perplexing mystery regarding one of the body’s main energy storage molecules, in the process shedding light on a possible route to treatment of a rare but deadly disease in teenagers.
The disease occur…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health

Signaling path in brain may prevent that ‘I’m full’ message, UT Southwestern scientists discover

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DALLAS — March 1, 2011 — Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a signaling pathway in the brain that’s sufficient to induce cellular leptin resistance, a problem that decreases the body’s ability to “hear” that it is full…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Research provides new findings on drug delivery with nanoparticles

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Researchers have over time been able to show that medicine designed at nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunities for targeted treatment of serious diseases such as cancer. However, now research also shows that the body’s immune system plays a sig…

Categories Blog Entry, Health, Physics & Mathematics, Technology

U. of Colorado study shows acupressure effective in helping to treat traumatic brain injury

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A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people with mild traumatic brain injury, a finding that may have implications for some U.S. war veterans retu…

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Meditation beats dance for harmonizing body and mind

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High vitamin-D bread could help solve widespread insufficiency problem

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With most people unable to get enough vitamin D from sunlight or foods, scientists are suggesting that a new vitamin D-fortified food — bread made with high-vitamin D yeast — could fill that gap. Their study, confirming that the approach works…

Categories Blog Entry, Health

MIT engineers design new nanoparticle that could lead to vaccines for HIV, malaria, other diseases

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- MIT engineers have designed a new type of nanoparticle that could safely and effectively deliver vaccines for diseases such as HIV and malaria.
The new particles, described in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature Materials, consist of …

Categories Blog Entry, Health, Physics & Mathematics, Technology

Study links hypoxia and inflammation in many diseases

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AURORA, Colo. (Feb. 18, 2011) — When the body is deprived of oxygen during a major surgery, the kidneys, heart muscles or lungs can be injured as a result. The problem is that lack of oxygen can lead to inflammation.
Yet some athletes d…

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