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The Numbers Behind The Kidney: Mathematicians Find A Useful Niche In B
Mathematics professor Harold Layton was an unusual graduate student back in the 1980s. While the other Duke students stuck to theorems and proofs, Layton turned his attention to something more ordinary: urine. For his dissertation he created a mathematical model of how the kidney combines water and waste to produce the familiar yellow stream. Exercise Helps Recovery From Chemotherapy For Breast Cancer
Exercise after chemotherapy for breast cancer boosted the activity of infection-fighting T cells in women who worked out regularly, according to data from a study conducted at Penn State University. The research indicates that exercise can help restore immune systems damaged by anti-cancer drugs, which destroy healthy as well as malignant cells. Different Antipsychotic Medications May Have Different Effects On Brai
After a first psychotic episode, patients who were treated with an atypical antipsychotic medication had less change in brain volume compared with patients treated with a conventional antipsychotic medication, according to an article in the April issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Purdue Engineers Define 15 Dimensions Of 'E-Work'
An industrial engineer at Purdue University who coined the term "e-work"in 1999 to describe activities that require computer networks, has now defined 15 e-dimensions of e-work to help people and machines collaborate over global networks. In A Technical Tour De Force, Scientists Take A Global View Of The Epi
A collaboration between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California at Los Angeles captured the genome-wide DNA methylation pattern of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana - the "laboratory rat"of the plant world - in one big sweep. "In a single experiment we recapitulated 20 years worth of anecdotal findings and then some,"says senior author Joseph Ecker, Ph.D., a professor in the Salk Institute's Plant Biology Laboratory. Temperance &Prohibition
Collection of essays, images, and other material on the history of prohibition in the U.S., "a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages."Covers the U.S. brewing industry, the Woman's Crusade of 1873-74, the Anti-Saloon League, the Prohibition Party, and related topics. From The Ohio State University Department of History and the Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching. Improving Liver Cancer Diagnosis
Researchers have identified proteins that could be used to improve the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer. Hepatocellular carcinoma causes about one million deaths each year and is especially frequent in Asia, especially in China, where it is the second most frequent fatal cancer. But the diagnostic methods and therapies are limited, which has prompted scientists to look for proteins inside the body that indicate the presence of the disease. Effects Of Pediatric Brain Tumors And Their Treatment Haunt Survivors
Children who survive brain cancer struggle for years with the malevolent echo of the disease and its treatment, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Nearly one-third of former brain tumor patients require special education services, and many suffer from chronic headaches, nausea and seizures. Only about half of those old enough to drive do so. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Tiny Roundworm's Telomeres Help Scientists To Tease Apart Different Ty
The continual and inevitable shortening of telomeres, the protective "caps"at the end of all 46 human chromosomes, has been linked to aging and physical decline. Once they are gone, so are we. But there are more ways than one to grow old.
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