Spread of breast cancer reduced by targeting acid metabolite
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 12, 2017) - It's a metabolite found in essentially all our cells that, like ...
The wiser brain: Insights from healthy elders
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Drug delivered during CPR may improve survival for heart attack
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The number of illustrations in storybooks influences children’s word learning
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APACMed announces partnership with CoRE
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First aid in the brain: When language suddenly fails
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Expecting the worst: People’s perceived morality is biased towards negativity
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New series of papers call for a global recovery treatment consensus for stoke patients
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How migrating birds ‘run a marathon,’ burning muscles and organs in long flights
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Global warming could result in losses for the European wine industry
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Research raises antibiotic questions
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Babies born big more likely to become obese as children, study finds
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Breathing in a new gene therapy to treat pulmonary hypertension
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Creating music by thought alone
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New analysis of rare Argentinian rat unlocks origin of the largest mammalian genome
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First aid kit in some living organisms helps fix DNA after lengthy sun exposure
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Between extinction and survival of endangered populations
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DFG approves seven new research units and one new clinical research unit
At its summer session during the annual meeting of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Halle (Saale), the ...
Shortcut method in drug development
In the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research group at Uppsala ...
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