News tagged with abnormal facial features
Study shows developing organisms can identify and fix abnormalities in head and face
Developmental biologists at Tufts University have identified a "self-correcting" mechanism by which developing organisms recognize and repair head and facial abnormalities. This is the first time that such ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Study: Women look away more from abnormal babies
(AP) -- Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects. It's a surprise finding. Psychiatrists from the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, who were studying ...
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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The face of a frog: Time-lapse video reveals never-before-seen bioelectric pattern
For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that reveals ...
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Cancer-related pathways reveal potential treatment target for congenital heart disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cross-disciplinary teams of scientists studying genetic pathways that are mutated in many forms of cancer, but which also cause certain forms of congenital heart disease, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ...
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Figuring out fetal alcohol syndrome in fruit flies
Drinking excess alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) due to the damaging effects of alcohol on a developing baby's brain. Despite its harmful effects, pregnant mothers continue to drink alcohol ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 08, 2011 |
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NASA technology could aid in interpretation of mamograms, ultrasounds, other medical imagery
NASA software used to enhance Earth Science Imagery could one day aid in the interpretation of mammograms, ultrasounds and other medical imagery.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 15, 2010 |
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Struggling for breath: Videogame technology documents abnormal breathing patterns
Patients with a common chest deformity known as sunken chest exhibit dysfunctional chest wall motion, a finding that may explain routine reports of exercise intolerance pectus patients, according to a study presented at the ...
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Oct 12, 2010 |
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Body language to be read by computers one of new innovative solutions
Can a computer read your body language? A consortium of European researchers thinks so, and has developed a range of innovative solutions from escalator safety to online marketing.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Researchers offer alternate theory for found skull's asymmetry
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new turn in the debate over explanations for the odd features of LB1 -- the specimen number of the only skull found in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores and sometimes called "the hobbit" ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Missed diagnosis: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
(PhysOrg.com) -- An article published in the June issue of the journal Nature Reviews: Neuroscience provides one of the first comprehensive overviews of the genetic, neural and cognitive bases of a frequently undiagnosed congen ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Why is late-life depression harder to treat?
Scientists have found an important clue in the quest to understand why people who suffer from depression in later life are harder to treat and keep well in the long term.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 04, 2010 |
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Why the mirror lies: Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder see their own faces differently
Everyone checks themselves in the mirror now and then, but that experience can be horrifying for individuals suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, a psychiatric condition that causes them to believe, wrongly, that ...
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Feb 01, 2010 |
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