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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & news items, Under the topic Biomedicine
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The last day of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting offers new ideas on gender-based behavior, the genetics of creativity, the brain power of motherhood and the non-randomness of blinking.Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Found in: Behavior, Biology, Biomedicine and Body & Brain
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The second day of the Society for Neuroscience meeting offers insights on dyslexia and gender, the brain on age, touch receptors under the skin and a way to reduce brain swelling after head trauma.Published: Sunday, November 16th, 2008Found in: Behavior, Biomedicine and Body & Brain
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Study with the telomerase enzyme gives mice a longevity boost without high cancer risk.Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2008Found in: Biology, Biomedicine and Body & Brain
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Viral heart infections respond to interferon treatment, easing cardiomyopathy in some patients.Published: Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Body & Brain
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When it comes to sensory information detected by the body, pain is king, and itch is the court jester. But that insistent, tingly feeling—satisfied only by a scratch—is anything but funny to the millions of people who suffer from it chronically. Garden-variety itches related to histamine, like the kind caused by an angry rash of chicken pox or poison ivy, annoy everyone, but most can be subdued with drugs like Benadryl. But another type of itch is not mollified by these drugs, and therein lies the rub. Pathological itch — called the “itch that laughs at Benadryl” by neuros... (p. 16)Published: November 22nd, 2008; Vol.174 #11Found in: Biology, Biomedicine, Body & Brain, Humans and Psychology -
The Republican presidential hopeful faces a small but lingering risk of cancer recurrence.Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society
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A vaccine against rotavirus shows potent protection against the diarrhea-causing pathogen in its first year of widespread use. (p. 9)Published: November 22nd, 2008; Vol.174 #11Found in: Biomedicine
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Turning down the thermostat on a home's water heater could foster the growth of toxic bacteria in home plumbing.Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Found in: Biology, Biomedicine, Environment, Science & Society and Technology -
A team engineers microbes to perform AND, OR, NAND and NOR logic operations. (p. 20)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Biology, Biomedicine and Genes & Cells
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Back to basics: A simplified polio vaccine works better than the standard approach and overcomes an unforeseen shortcoming in the widely used oral vaccine.Published: Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Humans -
Daily reports from Science News staff from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.Published: Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Found in: Behavior, Biomedicine, Body & Brain and Humans
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An investigation of a man who received a successful hand transplant suggests that reorganization of sensory maps in the brain following amputation can be reversed in short order. (p. 18)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Biomedicine, Body & Brain and Humans -
Mothers-to-be impart antibodies to offspring that pay dividends later (p. 18)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Biomedicine
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The feds articulate how much exercise we should consider as healthy.Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine, Body & Brain and Science & Society -
Home / News / October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9 / Nobel Prize in medicine given for HIV, HPV discoveriesThree Europeans recognized for linking viruses to AIDS, cervical cancer. (p. 10)Published: October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9Found in: Biomedicine and Body & Brain
