News tagged with heart anomaly

Tiny new tool to track heart rate in real time on a smartphone (w/ video)

Thanks to an invention from two EPFL laboratories, patients and their doctors can now immediately be made aware of heart rate anomalies and can thus quickly take any necessary medical measures. The device is very small, non-invasive ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth

After decades spent scanning the heavens for signs of life elsewhere in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is stepping back, and letting a colleague take charge of the quest.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 13

Study reveals dynamic changes in gene regulation in human stem cells

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California (UC) San Diego has discovered a new type of dynamic change in human stem cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Testosterone low, but responsive to competition, in Amazonian tribe

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a rough life for the Tsimane, an isolated indigenous group in Bolivia. They make a living by hunting and foraging in forests, fishing in streams and clearing land by hand to grow crops. ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fermilab results add to confidence in explaining less antimatter amounts

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Standard Model of Physics suggests that shortly after the Big Bang there should have been the same amount of antimatter in existence as there was matter. As time passed, both should have ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

Control of gene expression: Mediator MED26 shifts an idling polymerase into high gear

Look up "transcription"—the copying of a gene's DNA into RNA intermediaries—in any old molecular biology text book, and it all seems very simple: RNA polymerase II, the enzyme that catalyzes the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists study record-breaking 2010 heatwave

An international research team has compared the hot summers of 2003 and 2010 in detail for the first time. Last year’s heatwave across Eastern Europe and Russia was unprecedented in every respect: Europe ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

New mouse models generated for MYH9 genetic disorders

Researchers have created the first mouse models of human MYH9 genetic disorders, which cause several problems -- including enlarged platelets and sometimes fatal kidney disease.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers link gene mutations to Ebstein's anomaly

Ebstein's anomaly is a rare congenital valvular heart disease. Now, in patients with this disease, researchers of the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the University of Newcastle, UK and the Max Delbrück ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blood vessel dysfunction linked to heart disease also impacts Alzheimer's

A dysfunction in the lining of blood vessels that is linked to cardiovascular illness also appears to play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in Circulation Research: Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Silent vascular disease accompanies cognitive decline in healthy aging

Older people who are leading active, healthy lifestyles often have silent vascular disease that can be seen on brain scans that affect their ability to think, according to a new study led by UC Davis researchers and published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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