الأحد، 2 سبتمبر 2012

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News


Flying high: Researchers decipher manic gene

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 05:49 AM PDT

Flying high, or down in the dumps -- individuals suffering from bipolar dis­order alternate between depressive and manic episodes. Re­searchers have now discovered, based on patient data and animal models, how the NCAN gene results in the manic symptoms of bipolar disorder.

Genetic link to prostate cancer risk in African Americans found

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 11:52 AM PDT

Prostate cancer in African-American men is associated with specific changes in the IL-16 gene, and by establishing the link in men of African as well as European descent, researchers may have found a useful new biomarker for prostate cancer.

Asthma symptoms could be aggravated by imbalance problems

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:39 AM PDT

Asthma patients could be at a higher risk of worsening symptoms due to problems with their balance, according to new research.

An open platform improves biomedical-image processing

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:33 AM PDT

A new open source platform allows for application sharing as a way of improving biomedical-image processing. Fiji has become a de facto standard that assists laboratories and microscope companies in their development of more precise products, researchers involved in the work say.

Kidney stones linked with small increased risk of later kidney problems

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:10 PM PDT

Kidney stones are associated with a small but significant increased risk of developing more serious kidney problems later in life, suggests a new study.

Researchers make clinical trials a virtual reality

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:58 AM PDT

Clinical trials can be time-consuming, expensive and intrusive, but they are also necessary. Researchers have developed an invention that makes clinical trials more efficient by moving them into the virtual world.

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