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Holding Infants – or not – Can Leave Traces on Their Genes
Children who have been more distressed as infants and have received less physical contact have a molecular profile that is underdeveloped for their age – pointing to the possibility that they are lagging biologically.
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Cells Bulge To Squeeze Through Barriers
Invasive cells deploy a trick to break through tissues and spread to other parts of the body, researchers report.
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New Strategy for Multiple Myeloma Immunotherapy
Osaka University study unveils new target for monoclonal antibody-based treatment of cancer.
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Large-Scale Approach Reveals Imperfect Actor in Plant Biotechnology
With the help of metabolomics, scientists have unraveled the molecular activities of a key protein that can enable plants to withstand a common herbicide. Their findings reveal how the protein can sometimes act imprecisely, and how it can be successfully re-engineered to be more precise.
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Sodium MRI Reveals the Cause of Migraines
Migraine sufferers have significantly higher sodium concentrations in their cerebrospinal fluid than people without the condition, according to the first study to use a technique called sodium MRI.
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Stem Cells in Intestinal Lining May Shed Light on Behavior of Cancer Cells
Researchers have shown that stem cells exposed to higher levels of glucose had higher rates of glycolysis, but rates of oxidative phosphorylation didn’t change. In other words, the stem cells switched into a growth mode when exposed to more glucose.
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Trisomy 21: Research Breaks New Ground
Researchers at UNIGE and ETH Zurich have discovered that the symptoms of trisomy 21 are caused by the uncontrolled dysregulation of proteins in the cells.
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Mind's Eye Blink: Momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception.
Discovering momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception came as a surprise to the team of psychologists studying the benefits of attention.
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Barley is Flavour of the Month as New Study Settles Centuries-Old Brewing Debate
Until now it was a widely held brewing trade opinion that it was the malting process not the barley that contributed to the flavour and aroma of beer. However, many brewers insisted that certain barley varieties did contribute to flavour above and beyond the malting process. In addition to genetics, they believed, environment and location – what the wine industry calls terroir – also played a part, and it turns out they are right.
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Human Brain-cancer Patients Set to Receive Cancer Drug in Clinical Trials
A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial of patients with anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare malignant brain tumor, and glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive late-stage cancer of the brain.
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