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- A wandering mind reveals mental processes and priorities
- Sex-deprived fruit flies turn to alcohol, perhaps to fulfill a physiological demand for a reward
- With climate change, US could face risk from Chagas disease
- Protein researchers unravel the molecular dance of DNA repair
- Revolution in personalized medicine: First-ever integrative 'Omics' profile lets scientist discover, track his diabetes onset
- Cell phone use in pregnancy may cause behavioral disorders in offspring, mouse study suggests
- Believing the impossible: No evidence for existence of psychic ability found
- Dietary cadmium may be linked with breast cancer risk
| A wandering mind reveals mental processes and priorities Posted: 15 Mar 2012 01:13 PM PDT Odds are, you're not going to make it all the way through this article without thinking about something else. In fact, studies have found that our minds are wandering half the time, drifting off to thoughts unrelated to what we're doing – did I remember to turn off the light? What should I have for dinner?  |
| Sex-deprived fruit flies turn to alcohol, perhaps to fulfill a physiological demand for a reward Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:54 AM PDT After being deprived of sex, male fruit flies may turn to alcohol to fulfill a physiological demand for a reward, according to a new study. Neurobiology experts say that understanding why rejected male flies find solace in ethanol could help treat human addictions.  |
| With climate change, US could face risk from Chagas disease Posted: 15 Mar 2012 11:02 AM PDT People in the US may be at higher risk for Chagas disease than previously understood. A new study finds that 38 percent of kissing bugs collected in Arizona and California contained human blood and that more than 50 percent of the bugs also carried the parasite that causes this life-threatening disease. This upends the view that US kissing bug species don't regularly feed on people and suggests that Chagas could spread, driven north by climate change.  |
| Protein researchers unravel the molecular dance of DNA repair Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:30 AM PDT Using state-of-the-art technology, scientists have successfully obtained "molecular snapshots" of tens of thousands processes involved in DNA damage repair. The results will help unravel exactly how cells repair their broken DNA, how chemotherapy affects cells' workings and will assist in the discovery of new drugs with fewer side effects.  |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2012 09:30 AM PDT Researchers have reached an unprecedented analysis in the field of personalized medicine. Their findings rely on collecting and analyzing billions of individual bits of data, an integrative Personal "Omics" Profile, or iPOP. "Omics" indicates the study of a body of information, such as the genome or the proteome. The iPOP can identify and predict myriad problems including diabetes, and researchers say that such dynamic monitoring will soon become commonplace.  |
| Cell phone use in pregnancy may cause behavioral disorders in offspring, mouse study suggests Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:01 AM PDT Exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy affects the brain development of offspring, potentially leading to hyperactivity, researchers have determined.  |
| Believing the impossible: No evidence for existence of psychic ability found Posted: 15 Mar 2012 06:47 AM PDT Research failing to find evidence for the existence of psychic ability has been published, following a year of industry debate.  |
| Dietary cadmium may be linked with breast cancer risk Posted: 15 Mar 2012 06:45 AM PDT Dietary cadmium, a toxic metal widely dispersed in the environment and found in many farm fertilizers, may lead to an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a new study. Cadmium occurs at low concentrations naturally, but scientists are concerned because contamination of farmland mainly due to atmospheric deposition and use of fertilizers leads to higher uptake in plants. Consuming whole grains and vegetables may counteract the effects.  |
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