Archive: 11/06/2018

Research shows if your eyes wrinkle when you smile or frown, you appear more sincere

Researchers at Western University have shown that our brains are pre-wired to perceive wrinkles around the eyes as conveying more intense and more sincere emotions. This eye-wrinkle feature, called the Duchenne marker, occurs ...

Jun 11, 2018

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Criticism from parents affects how children's brains respond to emotional information

Children of highly critical parents show less attention to emotional facial expressions, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University at New York.

Jun 11, 2018

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Why are sight and sound out of sync?

The way we process sight and sound are curiously out of sync by different amounts for different people and tasks, according to a new study from City, University of London.

Jun 11, 2018

Study points to possible treatment target for aggressive liver cancer in kids

A protein in the cell nucleus already targeted therapeutically for several types of cancer has now been linked to an aggressive form of pediatric liver cancer called hepatoblastoma (HBL), according to a study published in ...

Jun 11, 2018

A new therapy proves effective against brain metastasis

A study published in Nature Medicine by a team led by Manuel Valiente, head of the Brain Metastasis Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), shows that the administration of silibinin in patients with ...

Jun 11, 2018

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Safety protocol breaches—ways to prevent infection transmission in health care setting

The medical community is losing its biggest gun in fighting infection, antibiotics. Researchers are turning to safety protocols to reduce the transmission of antibiotic-resistant organisms, like Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant ...

Jun 11, 2018

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Key cancer-fighting gene's secret weapons revealed

The findings revealed that a special group of genes that function within the body's normal DNA repair process were vital to the effectiveness of p53. This new information could help doctors to better identify patients with ...

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Device attaches directly to damaged heart, enabling delivery of multiple therapy doses

After a patient has a heart attack, a cascade of events leading to heart failure begins. Damage to the area in the heart where a blood vessel was blocked leads to scar tissue. In response to scarring, the heart will remodel ...

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Scientists help identify genetic markers for prostate cancer in global DNA download

An international team of researchers including USC scientists has found scores of new genetic markers in DNA code that increase prostate cancer risk—powerful knowledge likely to prove useful to detect and prevent the disease.

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Reviving the protector—new tactic against medulloblastoma

Scientists have a new tactic with potential for fighting medulloblastoma, the most common and most aggressive form of brain tumor in children.

Jun 11, 2018

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Archive: 11/06/2018

Research shows if your eyes wrinkle when you smile or frown, you appear more sincere

Criticism from parents affects how children's brains respond to emotional information

Why are sight and sound out of sync?

Study points to possible treatment target for aggressive liver cancer in kids

A new therapy proves effective against brain metastasis

Safety protocol breaches—ways to prevent infection transmission in health care setting

Key cancer-fighting gene's secret weapons revealed

Device attaches directly to damaged heart, enabling delivery of multiple therapy doses

Scientists help identify genetic markers for prostate cancer in global DNA download

Reviving the protector—new tactic against medulloblastoma

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