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May 24, 2012
The JCI will publish research by Abiodun Ogunniyi and colleagues at the University of Adelaide in Australia, who have identified new vaccine targets in Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in the world.
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April 2, 2024
Patients with microplastics in their arteries were 4.5 times more likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die within the next three years.
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February 3, 2012
Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction -- say, doing a puzzle -- relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests they do. When applying a placebo, scientists see activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. That's the part of the brain that controls high-level cognitive functions like working memory and attention -- which is what you use to do that distracting puzzle.
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December 2, 2022
The detailed simulation shows the cosmos changing from a dark, featureless gas to a web of stars and galaxies radiating light.
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March 21, 2012
Human nature has deep evolutionary roots and is manifested in relationships with family members, friends, romantic and business partners, competitors, and strangers more than in any other aspects of behavior or intellectual activity, contends a University of Chicago behavioral biologist. "Social behavior is, in part, genetically controlled and evolves by natural selection," said Dario Maestripieri, professor of Comparative Human Development and Evolutionary Biology.
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February 13, 2012
University of Granada researchers have designed a new corpse identification technique that is more reliable and less costly than those currently employed. To carry out this study, the researchers collected data from a sample of 500 alive individuals from Mediterranean regions.
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July 20, 2022
A proof-of-concept technique to analyze microscopic particles in tears could give scientists a new way to detect eye disease and other disorders.
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January 6, 2012
NASA has just funded a balloon-borne telescope sensitive to the polarization of light that will float at an altitude of 130,000 feet for a day. The balloon will stare fixedly at two black holes in our galaxy, an accreting neutron star, the Crab nebula, an extragalactic black hole and other targets yet to be chosen. One of the first instruments of its type, it should be able to make the direct measurements of the spin rate of black holes, among other advancements.
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March 23, 2012
An international team of researchers have developed a new method for measurement of aggregated beta-amyloid – a protein complex believed to cause major nerve cell damage and dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. The new method might facilitate diagnosis and detection as well as development of drugs directed against aggregated beta-amyloid.
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March 12, 2012
Geologists from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne have demonstrated new scientific results in the April issue of the scholarly journal Geology, which provide a new theory on the earliest phase of continental formation.
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