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Portable Ebola Test Brings Quicker Diagnosis to Remote Regions
NewsResearchers have created a portable and fast-acting test that can distinguish Ebola infections from other fever-causing infectious diseases such as Lassa fever and malaria in around 30 minutes. Although further testing is required, this could be useful during febrile disease outbreaks.
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Light Shed on Thallium Poisoning Cold Case by Mass Spectrometry
NewsA mass spectrometry standardization method has been developed for generating a timeline of thallium poisoning by analyzing the victim’s hair.
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Roots of Neuropsychiatric Risk in the Developing Brain
NewsThe most comprehensive genomic analysis of the human brain ever undertaken has revealed new insights into the changes it undergoes through development, how it varies among individuals, and the roots of neuropsychiatric illnesses such as autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.
Parents' Brain Activity 'Echoes' Their Child's
NewsWhen infants are playing with objects, their early attempts to pay attention to things are accompanied by bursts of high-frequency activity in their brain. But what happens when parents play together with them? New research shows for the first time that when adults are engaged in joint play together with their infant, their own brains show similar bursts of high-frequency activity.
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Organic Food Worse for the Climate
News Dec 14, 2018Organically farmed food has a bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed food, due to the greater areas of land required.
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Excess Body Weight Responsible for 4% of Cancers Worldwide
News Dec 13, 2018Policies, economic systems, and marketing practices that promote the consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor food, changing behavioral patterns that couple high total energy intake with insufficient physical activity, and human-built environments that amplify these factors are driving a worldwide rise in excess body weight, according to a new report.
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A New Formulation Helps the Medicine Go Down
News Dec 13, 2018Scientists have developed a novel pharmaceutical formulation to administer triclabendazole - an anti-parasitic drug used to treat a type of flatworm infection - in billions of tiny capsules.
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What's With Smelly Wine?
News Dec 13, 2018Aging often improves the flavor of wine, but sometimes the beverage emerges from storage with an unpleasant smell.
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Attention, Please!
News Dec 13, 2018Inside the brain, the act of anticipating is an exercise in focus, a neural preparation that conveys important visual, auditory or tactile information about what’s to come.Now, brain research among 6- to 8-year-old children shows not only this expectation in real time, but also how anticipation relates to executive function skills.
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New Stem Cell Line for Generating Skeletal Muscle
News Dec 13, 2018A new cell line has been developed to allow more efficient generation of skeletal muscle and research into therapeutic options for muscle disorders, such as muscular dystrophy.
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Watch Small-molecule Drug Interactions Inside Cells
News Dec 13, 2018Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry have developed a method to visualize whether drugs are regulating protein–protein interactions inside cells.
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Hurt Hearing in Havana Hardly Hysteria
News Dec 13, 2018A team of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine faculty, along with collaborators from the University of Pittsburgh, today presented the first report of acute symptoms and clinical findings in 25 diplomatic personnel living in the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, who experienced severe neurosensory symptoms after exposure to a unique sound and pressure phenomenon.
Ash from Wildfires Could be Protecting Us from Harm
News Dec 13, 2018Studying ash from recent California wildfires has shown that burned material in forests might help sequester mercury that otherwise would be released into the environment.
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More Than Just an Unpleasant Sensation
News Dec 13, 2018Pain is a negative feeling that we want to get rid of as soon as possible. In order to protect our bodies, we react for example by withdrawing the hand. This action is usually understood as the consequence of the perception of pain. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now shown that perception, the impulse to act and provision of energy to do so take place in the brain simultaneously and not, as was expected, one after the other.
