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ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Higher risk of birth defects from assisted reproduction, study suggests

Posted: 05 May 2012 10:09 AM PDT

A new study has identified the risk of major birth defects associated with different types of assisted reproductive technology. In the most comprehensive study of its kind in the world, researchers compared the risk of major birth defects for each of the reproductive therapies commonly available internationally, such as: IVF (in vitro fertilization), ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) and ovulation induction. They also compared the risk of birth defects after fresh and frozen embryo transfer.

Synesthesia may explain healers claims of seeing people's 'aura'

Posted: 04 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT

University of Granada researchers affirm that healers present synesthesia, a neuropsychological phenomenon involving a "mingling" of the senses. The results of this study have been published in the prestigious journal Consciousness and Cognition. The authors remark the significant "placebo effect" that healers have on ill people.

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