Work is beginning on a robot with artificial skin to be used to investigate how robots can help children with autism learn about social interaction.
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A new medication protocol for treating extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy appears effective in improving symptoms more quickly and provides a safer option than those previously available.
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Stress can be adaptive. It can make you sharper, help you focus and it can even improve your performance. But too much of it can tax cells to the point where they can no longer cope and slowly self-destruct. Scientists now show that when the protein-making factory of the cell is exposed to moderate stress, [...]
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Identifying one of the processes that plays a role in naïve and memory T-cells’ growth and production could one day lead to better vaccines and possibly more effective cancer immunotherapy.
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White-nose syndrome, a wildlife crisis of unprecedented proportions, has killed hundreds of thousands of bats from Vermont to West Virginia and continues unchecked. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking those who use caves where bats hibernate - called hibernacula - to take extra precautions and to curtail activities to help prevent the spread of [...]
Cognitive therapy is an effective management strategy for urge incontinence. Cognitive therapy employs deep-breathing and guided-imagery exercises that train the brain to control the bladder without medication or surgery.
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Baboons are surprisingly skilled social animals. Researchers describe a female baboon that herded goats in an African village. The baboon knew all of the relationships between the goats so well that at night she would carry a bleating kid from one barn directly to its mother in another barn.
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A new phase III clinical trial of early stage breast cancer patients has shown that a molecule designed to home in on nearby lymph nodes is just as accurate as current techniques, but faster, more specific and easier to use.
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Ultraviolet light is a proven treatment for psoriasis, one of humanity’s oldest known diseases. Sunshine can also beat back the chronic autoimmune disorder of the skin. But explaining light’s therapeutic effects has been difficult.
Researchers have developed a new non-viral gene technology approach. This approach overcomes side-effects associated with the current viral vectors, such as inflammation or the development of cancer. The result offers new hope for optimizing gene therapy as a possible cure for specific diseases, such as genetic disorders and cancer.
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