“Push your finger as hard as you can against the surface. Now as hard as you can but move it slowly — follow the ticking clock. Now faster. Now faster.” These were the commands for volunteers in a simple experiment that casts doubt on old ideas about mechanisms to control hand muscles. Complete understanding of [...]
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Elevated insulin levels in the blood appear to raise the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women, according to new research.
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Video from portable cameras is analyzed to calculate the distance of obstacles and predict the movements of people and cars. This information is then transformed and relayed to a blind person as a three-dimensional ‘picture’ of sound.
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Infants and young children treated with heart drugs get the wrong dose or end up on the wrong end of medication errors more often than older children, according to new research.
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“Push your finger as hard as you can against the surface. Now as hard as you can but move it slowly — follow the ticking clock. Now faster. Now faster.” These were the commands for volunteers in a simple experiment that casts doubt on old ideas about mechanisms to control hand muscles. Complete understanding of [...]
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Elevated insulin levels in the blood appear to raise the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women, according to new research.
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Investigators have used nuclear magnetic resonance methods to determine the structure of the largest membrane-spanning protein to date. The group’s ability to determine the NMR structure of the bacterial protein diacylglycerol kinase, reported in the journal Science, suggests that similar methods can now be used to study the structures of other membrane proteins.
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Researchers have identified a novel link between ITCH, a gene known to regulate inflammation in the body and NOD2, a gene which causes the majority of genetic Crohn’s Disease diagnoses. ITCH, when malfunctioning, causes widespread inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, gastritis, uncontrolled skin inflammation, and pulmonary pneumonitis. Researchers found that ITCH also influences NOD2-induced [...]
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