Cancer researchers at the University of Minnesota, led by expert Silvia Balbo, say that they have discovered the presence of a cancer-inducing (carcinogen) chemical in smokeless tobacco products.
The substance significantly increases users' risk of developing several forms of oral cancer in time. The risk is au... |
3 April 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, it would appear that even the most health-conscious consumers don't pay as much attention to nutrition labels as they think they do.
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25 October 2011
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University of Minnesota investigators have recently discovered that women who consume numerous vitamin supplements are at higher risk of dying than peers who do not use the chemicals. The investigation that led to this conclusion was carried out on thousands of women in the United States.
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11 October 2011
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Researchers working at the University of Minnesota have announced a new project that will aim to analyze and identify the key traits that MMO players share, in order to allow developers to enhance the experiences that they are offering. The research project is being funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air... |
28 July 2011
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In a new investigation, researchers determined that teenagers who are binge eaters, or who engage in other unhealthy and excessive weight control behaviors, tend to carry the habit with them into adulthood. This contributes to the growing incidence of obesity and other diseases in the population.Experts at the Univer... |
27 June 2011
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A group of investigators from the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities managed to prove that highly-structured organisms can develop from inferior ones, when they watched single-celled microbes in a test tube evolve into multicellular lifeforms. The latter were prefect capable of reproduction, which means that they... |
23 June 2011
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In a new study, a team of astronomers proposes that a so-called Universe-in-mas black hole is responsible for the development of an incredibly-large void in the constellation Eridanus.The feature, a billion-light-years-wide bubble of nothing, was until now explained using dark energy and its influences. However, the ... |
23 May 2011
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For about 4 years, a team of scientists from the United States has been conducting a mapping campaign in Antarctica. The effort is aimed at shedding more light on one of the last few areas in the world that are not entirely familiar to humans. The group is now setting its eye on the Arctic as well. Expanding the inve... |
10 May 2011
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The move to adapt the Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 for uses outside of the gaming world continue as one hospital in the Toronto area has managed to make the device a tool for surgeons, who are now able to use it in order to call up and manipulate complex images while they are in surgery.
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18 March 2011
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A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota has announced that it has found a novel new way of using the Kinect motion-tracking system from Microsoft to measure a range of disorder symptoms in children, creating a more objective way of evaluating them in order to detect problems like autism, attention defi... |
15 March 2011
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Doris Taylor, a cardiac researcher, director at the Center for Cardiovascular Repair, may very well be the first scientist in the world to have ever built an artificial heart. Using only organic rat cells, she was able to make a dead heart beat and grow again, all in a bioreactor at the University of Minnesota. Thoug... |
16 October 2008
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