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United States extends fetal tissue contract and revives one experiment

... Trumps administration ponders the future of the controversial work in... this month, the National Institutes of Health NIH in Bethesda, ... contract between its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
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Do volcanoes or an asteroid deserve blame for dinosaur extinction?

... near simultaneous mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs and many other forms of life. The research sheds... atmosphere and altered the course of life on the planet. In the...
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HIV drug could improve recovery after stroke

... stroke neurologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, ... and his team at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA , wanted to figure out which of...
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New compound offers superior therapeutic approach to treat MS

Spinal cord from animal model of MS have axons that... IndCl o Me halts the ongoing loss of axons and increases the number of myelnated axons. Credit Karim... Spinal cord from...
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Coping with cancer: Partners can reframe challenging situations

We re often told we are responsible... not only demonstrates the benefits of positive reframing finding... findings, based on a study of couples coping with breast... know that...
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Peer support, healing hands may curb prescription opioid misuse

A program offering group support, acupuncture, mindfulness, ... 20, 2019, in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, tracked the impact of a program for low income, ... trained and mentored. Opioids are...
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Scientists identify genetic mechanism involved in how females inherit traits

... cells randomly and permanently shut off one of the X chromosomes during... cells by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, traces the origin of XCI to an RNA......
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Marsupial lived among Arctic dinosaurs

... discovered a previously unknown species of marsupial that lived in. s Arctic during the era of dinosaurs, adding a vivid... led by scientists from the University of Colorado and...
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Febrile infants may not need painful tests, antibiotics, hospitalizations

... clinicians and researchers from the University of Michigan, Nationwide Children s Hospital and Columbia University, has derived and validated... younger, are at low risk of significant bacterial infections. advertisement......
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Top stories: The origins of Stonehenge, a #MeTooSTEM leader, and a new crater under Greenland’s ice

... most famous example, but tens of thousands of other ancient sites featuring... is today the Brittany region of northwestern France. This neuroscientist... McLaughlin, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University Medical...
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Chemicals repair damaged neurons in mice

... trying to prevent the loss of memory and cognitive decline... age. One team, from the University of California, Berkeley, showed MRI scans... from those in other parts of the...
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MRI and computer modeling reveals how wrist bones move

... work In a just published Journal of Biomechanics article, the researchers... also finding differences between wrists of males and females discoveries... advertisement If someone has dysfunction of the wrist, it...
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How breast tissue stiffening promotes breast cancer development

... insight into how the stiffening of breast tissue plays a... stiffness changing hydrogel, bioengineers at the University of California San Diego discovered that... together to promote the transformation of breast...
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Indonesia s devastating 2018 earthquake was a rare supershear, UCLA study finds

... that struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last September was... s Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Professor of Physics and Geophysics and one of the report s senior... Geoscience....
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Fractures, head injuries common in e-scooter collisions

... treated at the emergency departments of UCLA Medical Center, Santa... study found that about one third of them arrived by ambulance, an indication of the severity of their injuries. West...
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Natural selection and spatial memory link shown in mountain chickadee research

University of Nevada, Reno research results... wild food caching mountain chickadees in one of a kind in the world high altitude field lab. Credit Vladimir Pravosudov, University of Nevada, Reno University of Nevada, Reno...
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With age comes hearing loss and a greater risk of cognitive decline

. a new study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that hearing... with age, though the impact of mild hearing loss may... the February 12,...
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Another early-onset Alzheimer s gene mutation found, and traced back to Africa

For some of us, they carry the bright blue of our grandfather s eyes... family in Girardota a number of years ago, said UC... family is located. The subject...
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Tracking HIV s ever-evolving genome in effort to prioritize public health resources

... allows researchers and public health officials to build transmission networks, clusters of people with genetically similar... the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, researchers at University of California...
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Beyond romance: Empathy and bonding

... us do crazy things. It often prompts us to behave... for example, placing the wellbeing of our loved ones above... strategy for ensuring the survival of relatives. The idea...