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Science needs a second opinion: Researchers find flaws in study of patients in ‘vegetative state’
Jan. 24, 2013 A team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College is calling into question the published statistics, methods and findings of a highly publicized research study that claimed bedside electroencephalography (EEG) identified evidence of awareness in three patients diagnosed to be in a vegetative state. The new reanalysis study led by Weill Cornell neurologists Drs
At least one in five were infected in flu pandemic, international study suggests
Jan. 25, 2013 At least one in five people in countries for which data are available were infected with influenza during the first year of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, according to a new study. The highest rates of infection were in children, with 47 per cent of those aged five to 19 showing signs of having caught the virus.
Pathogenic bacteria adhering to the human vascular wall triggers vascular damage during meningococcal sepsis
Jan. 24, 2013 Researchers at the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC) have shown how adhesion of Neisseria ( N. ) meningitidis to human microvessels in a humanized mouse model leads to the characteristic cutaneous lesions of meningococcal sepsis
HIV-like viruses in non-human primates have existed much longer than previously thought
Jan. 24, 2013 Viruses similar to those that cause AIDS in humans were present in non-human primates in Africa at least 5 million years ago and perhaps up to 12 million years ago, according to study published January 24 in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Until now, researchers have hypothesized that such viruses originated much more recently
Scientists discover how epigenetic information could be inherited: Mechanism of epigenetic reprogramming revealed
Jan. 24, 2013 New research reveals a potential way for how parents’ experiences could be passed to their offspring’s genes. The research was published January, 25 in the journal Science
Scientists discover how epigenetic information could be inherited: Mechanism of epigenetic reprogramming revealed
Jan. 24, 2013 New research reveals a potential way for how parents’ experiences could be passed to their offspring’s genes
Using Twitter to track the flu: Researchers find a better way to screen the tweets
Jan. 24, 2013 Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have been sick with the virus, while others come from folks who are merely talking about the illness.
Fetal exposure to tributyltin linked to obesity
Jan. 24, 2013 Exposing pregnant mice to low doses of the chemical tributyltin (TBT) — which was used in marine antifouling paints and is used as an antifungal agent in some paints, certain plastics and a variety of consumer products — can lead to obesity for multiple generations without subsequent exposure, a UC Irvine study has found
Low vitamin D levels linked to high risk of premenopausal breast cancer
Jan. 24, 2013 A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of premenopausal breast cancer.
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