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Researchers have discovered a gene in flies whose activity rises and falls depending upon the amount of protein and sugar in the insects' diets.
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A study reveals a biological link between pain and fatigue and may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions.
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Russian regulators have approved the world's first cancer vaccine, validating the introduction of a product even though it failed a late-stage clinical trial.
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One day it may be possible to mimic the tactics used by parasites to trick the body into accepting transplanted tissues or organs.
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Researchers have discovered how a particular gene associated with breast cancer behaves, which may lead to better testing for the debilitating disease.
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Evidence is growing from animal and human studies that genistein, a potent chemical found in soy, protects against development of breast cancer - but only if consumed during puberty.
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Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties.
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Scientists describe a strain of mice that exhibit unusually high rates of maternal neglect, with approximately one out of every five females failing.
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One of the steps in turning genetic information into proteins leaves genetic fingerprints, even on regions of the DNA that are not involved in coding for the final protein.
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Aggressively lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels below current targets may help to prevent - and possibly reverse - hardening of the arteries.
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Even large amounts of manufactured nanoparticles, also known as Buckyballs, don't faze microscopic organisms that are charged with cleaning up the environment.
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A group of scientists recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled photons generated in optical fibers
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Nanotechnology could improve the life of the lithium batteries used in portable devices, including laptop computers, mp3 players, and mobile phones.
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Scientists have created and tested a set of computer programs that use electronic medical records to help clinicians detect contagious illness.
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If a crucial gene called Apc is lost or damaged, its normal function of controlling the adult stem cell population breaks down.
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British researchers have uncovered a messaging system that instructs ASCs to contribute to tissue repair in response to chemical signals in the body.
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Scientists are developing cell-scaffold combinations that could be injected into the brain to provide a framework inside the cavities caused by stroke.
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Washing fresh fruits and vegetables before eating may reduce the risk of food poisoning and those awful episodes of vomiting and diarrhoea. But it may not be enough.
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The use of MRI without endorectal coil can detect prostate cancer and provide undistorted images with diagnostic image quality and accurate tumour localisation.
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The use of MRI is effective in differentiating the blood supply to medial and lateral breast tumours, which is important in treatment planning and prognosis.
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