Archive: 03/31/2008
Green tea helps beat superbugs
Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
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Neurons hard wired to tell left from right
It's well known that the left and right sides of the brain differ in many animal species and this is thought to influence cognitive performance and social behaviour. For instance, in humans, the left half of the brain is ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Researchers publish MRI images of genes in action in the living brain
Biologists have just confirmed what poets have known for centuries: eyes really are windows of the soul—or at least of the brain. In a new study published in the April 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal, Harva ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Most people believe smallpox not an extinct disease
The vast majority of Scottish people interviewed in the streets of Edinburgh are unaware of one of the greatest achievements of medical science – the eradication of smallpox from the world over 40 years ago. A poll sponsored ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Vaccine for Ebola virus
One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Researchers eliminate drug discovery bottleneck
Determining the structure of unknown natural compounds is a slow and expensive part of drug screening and development – but this may now change thanks to a new combination of experimental and computational ...
Biology /
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