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Doctors, Nurses Prescribe Themselves Books
Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:11:16 GMT
Discovery of cellular 'switch' may provide new means of triggering cell death, treating disease
The discovery of a novel cellular "switch" in the popular laboratory research worm, C. elegans by a University of Colorado at Boulder team may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death in humans to treat disease.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:10:45 GMT
Body's anticipation of a meal can be a diabetes risk factor
Alterations in our response to the taste or smell of food may be another culprit responsible for Type 2 diabetes, according to scientists at Duke University Medical Center who have identified the specific mechanism in human specimens and in mice.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:10:29 GMT
Conservationists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia
An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time sales of stockpiled ivory.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:10:06 GMT
Barrier in mosquito midgut protects invading pathogens
What: Scientists studying the Anopheles gambiae mosquito - the main vector of malaria - have found that when the mosquito takes a blood meal, that act triggers two enzymes to form a network of crisscrossing proteins around the ingested blood.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:09:50 GMT
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