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Musik, auch für die Augen

By Guest PostDecember 30, 2015Health, Scienceaugen, bruno gingras, manuela marin, musik, tecumseh fitch

Wenn Menschen Musik hören, dann kann man ihre emotionalen Reaktionen von der Pupillengröße der Augen ablesen. WissenschafterInnen von den Universitäten Wien und Innsbruck fanden heraus, dass der Grad des emotionalen Gehaltes sowie der persönliche Bezug zur Musik mit Veränderungen der Pupillengröße zusammenhängen und publizierten dazu in der wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschrift “Frontiers in Human Neuroscience”. Die Studie zeigt, dass Messungen der Pupillengröße effektiv dazu verwendet werden können, um die Wahrnehmung von Musik zu untersuchen. (more…)

The Other Side of Almonds: A Light Carbon Footprint

By Guest PostDecember 29, 2015Environment, Healthalissa kendall, almonds, carbon footprint

You’ve probably heard that the production of California almonds requires an immense amount of water — about a gallon per almond. But new research published in the Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE) reveals another, more favorable environmental dimension of almond production.
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Raising Computers to Be Good Scientists

By Guest PostDecember 21, 2015Healthbiomedical care, cancer patients, holistic mechanisms, journal articles, supernatural cognition

A team of UA researchers is sifting through thousands of research papers to improve treatment for cancer patients, one algorithm at a time.

Making sense of the new scientific data published every year — including well over a million cancer-related journal articles — is a tall order for the contemporary scientist. (more…)

Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer

By Guest PostDecember 20, 2015Health, Naturecancer in elephants, cancer prevention mechanisms, elephants cancer resistance, elephants fighting cancer

A Potential Mechanism Identified That May Be Key to Cancer Resistance

SALT LAKE CITY—Why elephants rarely get cancer is a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades. A study led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and Arizona State University, and including researchers from the Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation, may have found the answer. (more…)

Drug engineered from bananas shows promise in fighting deadly viruses

By Guest PostDecember 19, 2015Health3rfp, aids, banana lectin, bananas, banlec, called h84t, david markovitz, dna code, drug, engineered from, hans joachim gabius, inflammation, protein, protein data bank, sugar code, viruses

ANN ARBOR—A banana a day may not keep the doctor away, but a substance originally found in bananas and carefully edited by scientists could someday fight off a wide range of viruses, new research suggests. (more…)

Study counters long-time practice of prescribing more fertility hormones

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2015Healthbarbara luke, fertility hormones, follicle-stimulating hormone, fsh, fsh dosage, having a baby, hormone controls, ivf, james ireland, prescribing, treatment, valerie baker, womans chances

A Michigan State University study has found that too much of a hormone commonly used during in vitro fertility, or IVF, treatments actually decreases a woman’s chances of having a baby. (more…)

Lowering nicotine loosens tobacco’s hold

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2015Healthaddiction studies, cigarettes, eric donny, jennifer tidey, lowering nicotine, psychiatric disorders, rachel denlinger, smoke, tobacco

A team of researchers, including two at Brown University, show that when people smoked cigarettes with less nicotine, they smoked less, felt less craving, and tried to quit more. Results appear in The New England Journal of Medicine.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Two Brown University researchers are co-authors of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that nicotine content is a significant determinant of cigarette use and dependence. (more…)

Brain Parasite Not Your Typical Invader

By Guest PostDecember 11, 2015Healthbrain immune response, brain parasite, chronic toxoplasmosis, neuroinflammation, toxoplasma effect, toxoplasma infection

UA researcher Anita Koshy has received two grants to study how Toxoplasma infection affects the brain’s immune response, and also how it manipulates the neurons with which the parasite interacts.

For most people, the idea that their brain may be infected with a microscopic parasite isn’t exactly cause for celebration. (more…)

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