Archive: 17/12/2015

Scientists identify a neural population highly selective for music

Scientists have long wondered if the human brain contains neural mechanisms specific to music perception. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that ...

Dec 17, 2015

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Gene variation promotes uncontrolled cell division

Mom's eyes and dad's tumor? Cancer is due to genetic defects, some of which can be hereditary. The gene variant rs351855, for example, occurs in one in two cancer patients. It supports the growth of a variety of tumors that ...

Dec 17, 2015

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Scientists analyze the dynamics of HIV adaptation

HIV mutates rapidly and forms countless virus variants in the patient. A collaboration of scientists from the group of Richard Neher, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, and scientists from ...

Dec 17, 2015

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Harnessing chemical and genomic data to fight cancer

In the years since the human genome was first sequenced, a trove of genomic data has been amassed, aiding not only in our understanding of how the body works, but also in the search for disease-fighting drugs. Indeed, finding ...

Dec 17, 2015

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Study reveals environment, behavior contribute to some 80 percent of cancers

A team of researchers from Stony Brook University, led by Yusuf Hannun, MD, the Joel Strum Kenny Professor in Cancer Research and Director of the Stony Brook University Cancer Center, have found quantitative evidence proving ...

Dec 17, 2015

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Researcher examines nutrition, timing of foods acquired in food deserts

Eliza Davenport Whiteman, a second-year doctoral student in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of City and Regional Planning in the School of Design, conducted a pilot study that offers a novel metric for evaluating ...

Dec 17, 2015

Fish oil helps transform fat cells from storage to burning

Researchers have found that fish oil transforms fat-storage cells into fat-burning cells, which may reduce weight gain in middle age.

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Hepatitis C prevention, control efforts should focus on incarcerated individuals

More than one in nine people with hepatitis C in Canada spend time in a correctional facility each year and researchers said this presents a unique opportunity to focus hepatitis C prevention and control efforts in incarcerated ...

Dec 17, 2015

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Bulgaria, EU's death capital, to tackle 'nightmare' health system

Bulgaria's medical system is causing a serious headache for all in a country—despite massive healthcare investments and the most hospitals per capita in the European Union, it has the highest death rate across the bloc.

Dec 17, 2015

High schools listening to scientists, letting teens sleep

More school districts around the U.S. are heeding the advice of scientists who have long said that expecting teens to show up to class before 8 a.m. isn't good for their health or their report cards.

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