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What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing? Ironically, a new strain of mice with “golden ears” — mice that have outstanding hearing as they age. The new mouse hears much like people with “golden ears” — people who are able to retain great [...]
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Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s many years later, reveals new research from Sweden. This discovery this could lead to a new and simple way of determining who is at risk long before there are any signs of the illness.
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The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice are unprecedented.
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Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death in individuals with or without kidney disease, according to a pair of studies.
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If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping website, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother’s maiden name? Where were you born? The trouble is that such questions are not very secure. But computer scientists are testing a new tactic that could be both [...]
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Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups.
Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature at 787 million years post Big Bang. The finding is the first age-confirmation of a so-called dropout galaxy at that distant [...]
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A new study finds that women treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of cancer recurrence if they have dense breasts. The study’s results indicate that breast cancer patients with dense breasts may benefit from additional therapies following surgery, such as radiation.
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