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Hair provides proof of the link between chronic stress and heart attack
Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have provided the first direct evidence using a biological marker, to show chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks. Stressors ...
Fri 3 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Stem cell ruling puts researcher's project in limbo
(PhysOrg.com) -- Promising work by Joanna Wysocka, PhD, has been thrown into an uncertain limbo by a recent injunction suspending federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
Tue 31 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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Artificial Cornea Offers Long-Term Vision
The results of a two-year study are as good as those achieved with donor corneas. Patients with impaired vision because of a damaged cornea could soon regain their sight without need of a human ...
Wed 25 Aug 10 from MIT Technology Review
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'Jailbreak' bacteria can trigger heart disease
Plaque-causing bacteria can jailbreak from the mouth into the bloodstream and increase your risk of heart attack says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in ...
Mon 6 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Biologists find way to reduce stem cell loss during cancer treatment
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a gene critical for programmed cell death is also important in the loss of adult stem cells, a finding that could help ...
Sun 5 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Low vitamin D linked to schizophrenia
Babies born with low vitamin D levels are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute have found.
1 hours ago from ABC Science
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Induced pluripotent stem cell retain an inactivated X chromosome
Female induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, reprogrammed from human skin cells into cells that have the embryonic-like potential to become any cell in the body, retain an inactive X chromosome, ...
Fri 3 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Researchers identify how bone-marrow stem cells hold their 'breath' in low-oxygen environments
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified unique metabolic properties that allow a specific type of stem cell in the body to survive and replicate in low-oxygen environments.
Fri 3 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Japanese stem cell researcher wins Balzan prize
(AP) -- The Balzan Foundation says its prize for the biology of stem cells has gone to a Japanese researcher for discovering a way to transform adult cells into cells with the characteristics ...
22 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Scientists discover the mechanisms and function of a type of mysterious immune cell
In two closely related studies, two teams of Scripps Research Institute scientists have discovered the underlying mechanisms that activate a type of immune cell in the skin and other organs. ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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