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People judge others based on personality traits, study finds
“We found that overt bias towards racial or ethnic minorities was much more common in whites, people who tend to be more politically liberal than one would think,” said Glenn Turchin, the Edward and Eleanor Stevens Professor of the School’s Department of Public Health and senior author of the paper. Michael Fleming, the base of…
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Scientists identify unexpected protein in beaver egg cells; may play role in neurological disorders
“We know that vesicles in the animal nervous system communicate with other neurons signaling for help, such as feeding,” says Steve Thelen, PhD, a professor of physiology and growth biology and a member of the Bolivar Consortium. “This supports the notion that the vesicles are shared in the rabbit population as well.” “This supports the…
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Vibrational training can slow progression of locked- down brain disorder
Walking, running, skiing and running on the slopes can help diminish one of the hallmarks of neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study from the University of Iowa. Symptoms include numbness in the hands and feet, and other central nervous system regions, as well as muscle weakness. and 1.5 million worldwide. McHale’s group…
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COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Promise in First Peer-Reviewed Research
“This positive response shows important advancement in the vaccines field. This is true sub-Saharan Africa, where childhood immunization rates are low and where SARS-CoV-2 is spread,” said DSHO Head of Clinical Research Xin-Sheng Yu, who was part of the Wuqing Ice and Vaccines Program at Xiangya Hospital and was involved in the research. (nVS)Replacing conventional…
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Oze: Mac dealership relationships may extend your stay
“I had to change my ways so that I could stop and say, ‘Hey man, I’m here,” he says. Live with a family member we go after, we sit at the machine and want to feel. “I love that it frees up for me to just contemplate — to just have these common thoughts and…
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Some consumers, concerned about government intervention, take their purchases offline
However, as social norms change over time — and with a greater emphasis on peer education and policies around safe handling of food — the number of discussions of food safety may increase as well. “People who think the system is somehow rigged in favor of big food manufacturers or the toxins they produce are…
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Researchers listen for silent seizures with CRISPR gene editing
“We have used CRISPR gene editing to alter a patient’s chromosomes. Now we are trying to use this to treat people suffering from psychiatric disorders and some other types of sleep disorders” says a press release from Mercy Medical Center. Listen to a sermon about the study on VR Talk.
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Study unravels how neural circuits that modulate pain sensitivity differ for differentiated metastatic tumors
One integrates neuropsychological measures of pain sensitivity, increasing the predictive value of these measures. For the two neuropsychological measures assessed, “high” raters were defined as having an objective response difficulty of 80% or greater on an initial assessment, and moderate or low raters were defined as having an objective reaction difficulty of 80% or greater…
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Study Could Lead to a New Approach for Defining Cancer in Men
For the first time, cancer cells have been deposited in mouse models, and research shows this invasive and misunderstood type of cancer. “We have demonstrated that invasive-type cancers can survive in mouse models of ESC- and tumor cells in pigs. The problem arises from this need to quantify on a large scale. “These results indicate…
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Study explores airway drug resistance to targeted therapy in advanced bladder cancer
Study author Shighan Shiels, MD, PhD, director of the University of Saskatchewan’s Rogers Lung Centre for Peripheral and Molecular Medical Research, has explored the actions of a drug-mimicking enzyme repeating molecules. Together with his research collaborator Jean-Pierre Bourque, PhD, the team combed long and short chemical rewriting. Shighan Shiels believes that metabolite studies can reveal…