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Monday, July 1, 2013

ScienceDaily: Top Health News

ScienceDaily: Top Health News


Cancer is a result of a default cellular 'safe mode,' physicist proposes

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 07:54 PM PDT

With death rates from cancer have remained largely unchanged over the past 60 years, a physicist is trying to shed more light on the disease with a very different theory of its origin that traces cancer back to the dawn of multicellularity more than a billion years ago.

Is that bacteria dead yet? Nano and laser technology packed into small device tests antibiotic treatment in minutes

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Researchers have built a matchbox-sized device that can test for the presence of bacteria in a couple of minutes, instead of up to several weeks. This might be a crucial medical tool especially for resistant strains.

Link between fear and sound perception discovered

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Researchers have discovered in an animal model how fear can increase or decrease the ability to discriminate among sounds depending on context, providing potential new insight into the distorted perceptions of victims of PTSD.

Liver protein crucial for pregnancy

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:44 AM PDT

A protein first shown to function in the liver plays a crucial role in pregnancy in mice and has a key role in the human menstrual cycle, according to researchers.

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