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Yale University investigators have discovered that children suffering from a disorder associated with autism and learning disabilities do not display a certain pattern of gene activity, which affects areas of the brain in charge of handling decision-making and language.
What makes this research so interesting is the... |
16 May 2012
11:18 GMT |
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Did you know that lasers can switch each other off, producing a blackout of sorts? That's OK, neither did anyone else until experts from Yale University, Princeton University, ETH Zürich and the Vienna University of Technology discovered that this laser-effect is actually real.
Unlike conventional light b... |
25 April 2012
11:02 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation carried out by experts at the Yale School of Medicine, it would appear that mothers who expose themselves to radiations from cell phones during pregnancy are very likely to have children whose brain development is impaired.
In the March 15 issue of the Nature jou... |
19 March 2012
04:42 GMT |
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Scientists with the Yale University School of Medicine have recently compiled a statistic of child abuse rates in the United States, and the data aren't pretty. Annually, more than 4,500 children were admitted into hospital around the countries following abuse.
No less than 300 of these kids died on account of... |
6 February 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Researchers at the Yale University announce that they were recently able to get closer to the root genetic cause of depression. If the work is successful to the end, then the genetic component of this debilitating mental illness could finally be removed from the equation.Depression is not exclusively caused by geneti... |
6 January 2012
11:14 GMT |
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People who have been practicing meditation for many years seem to be able to shutdown certain parts of their brains, investigators from the Yale University say. Interestingly, these areas are exactly those involved in underlying conditions such as autism and schizophrenia, among others.
The same ability was not det... |
22 November 2011
11:02 GMT |
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In a paper published in a recent issue of the top scientific journal Nature, investigators at the Yale University detail how they were able to create the most exquisite map of neural connections at various stages of human development.
The research was focused on studying how the human brain evolves before birth. In... |
27 October 2011
10:55 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers at the Yale University announces the development of a new mechanical switch. The device consists of a very small silicon bridge, which can be flipped from one stable configuration through another by light generated from a small laser device. The research group, led by experts Mahmood Ba... |
24 October 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Internet surfers using the online Planet Hunters project have recently discovered two new exoplanetary candidates, in a batch of data supplied by the NASA Kepler Telescope. Astronomers say that the discovery is now awaiting official confirmation, but that chances are very high the findings will stand.
Thus far, p... |
22 September 2011
03:21 GMT |
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The names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 former and current Yale University students, faculty, staff and alumni were exposed after a file hosted on a FTP server was indexed by Google."We immediately blocked that server from the Internet, removed the file and did a complete scan of the server to make sure there... |
24 August 2011
06:49 GMT |
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A minute galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way surprised astronomers in a new study. While conducting a routine check of the object, a team discovered that the 1,000-star-large formation contained the largest amount of dark matter ever discovered in any galaxy.The small and dim stars in the Segue 1 galaxy are about the... |
2 August 2011
10:26 GMT |
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Predicting how peripheral nerve axons respond to electrical stimuli is one of the most important aspects of determining if an electrode design is efficient or not. Neural implants need to work in harmony with nerve cells, but finding out whether they do so or not takes weeks at this point. By using a new computer mod... |
22 July 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Very often, former smokers complain about gaining weight. Unconsciously, they associate smoking with being thin, and have more incentives to pick up the habit again. But soon, new drugs may prevent this from happening, by acting on a new class of receptors that bind to nicotine.A specific subclass of nicotine recepto... |
13 June 2011
03:24 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study on the issue, it would appear that hundreds of very small genetic variants may contribute to underlying disorders belonging to the autism spectrum.All on their own, none of these variation would probably cause any ill side-effects, but their effect increases the ... |
9 June 2011
11:01 GMT |
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In some instances, the pursuit of happiness can make people feel miserable. Experts demonstrate in a new study that not all forms of happiness are good, enjoyable, or beneficial to people, and give a few examples to support their claims. The work started from the fact that the pursuit of happiness is one of the tenet... |
17 May 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Experts believe they may have found the gene that is responsible for the development of the human brain in its current configuration. This little piece of genetic material is apparently in charge of producing brain convolutions.These are structures resembling deep fissures inside our brains. What they do is they incr... |
16 May 2011
03:11 GMT |
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Researchers have recently developed a new type of laser, one that can produce high-intensity laser light of almost any color by mimicking the nanoscale structure of colorful feathers found on some birds.This advancement was made possible by the fact that researchers managed to master and replicate the way birds'... |
9 May 2011
05:40 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States recently developed a computer network that they then used to gain a deeper understanding of the causes that lead to the development of schizophrenia.The team behind the new work says they used the network to simulate what happens in the human brain during an excessi... |
6 May 2011
11:06 GMT |
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A large portion of people who lose their lives after developing melanoma do so because of metastasis, which is the generalized spread of cancer to all major organs. Yale University investigators have recently found a new biomarker that can predict which melanoma patients are at risk of metastasis.Monitoring melanoma ... |
15 April 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Food action displays similar symptoms and neural activation patterns as drug addiction, researchers show in a new study. The paper proves conclusively that certain substances in specific food can indeed “hook” eaters in the same way that drugs do.The work shows that eating, in some case, produces activati... |
11 April 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Scientists have recently made a discovery that could have significant consequences for the 33 percent of the American population that is considered obese. They learned that mothers who are obese are more likely than their peers to have children that are infertile, or whose fertility is much lower than normal.The disc... |
23 March 2011
11:56 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that taking antibiotics to treat viruses such as the common cold or the flu makes the microorganisms stronger, rather than destroy them. These are very important results, and ones that people need to listen to.Now that self-medication has... |
15 March 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Astronomers believe that billions, if not trillions, of Earth-like extrasolar planets may be orbiting red dwarf stars. These are the most common stars in the Universe, making up about 80 percent of all cosmic fireballs in the night sky.In recent investigations, experts were also able to find 10-billion-year-old red d... |
14 March 2011
04:51 GMT |
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A group of research scientists at the Mayo Clinic announces the discovery of a mechanisms underlying the development of an early form of dementia. The mechanisms is “powered” by two proteins, called progranulin and sortilin, whose interactions seem to cause FTLD.This condition, translated as frontotempora... |
30 November 2010
06:51 GMT |
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A team of investigators in the United States announces the discovery of a gene that main play an important part in the onset of symptoms related to depression.In a paper the group published in the October 17 issue of the esteemed scientific journal Nature Medicine, expert say that the new finding may soon become a ta... |
18 October 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Tourette's Syndrome is a disorder that has been oftentimes presented as a condition in which people cannot control what they are saying. But the reality is far from that. Most patients suffer from verbal tics and make unwanted movements, such as excessive blinking, or various patterns of facial expressions in cl... |
6 May 2010
07:00 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Yale University has recently announced that it has developed a new series of nanosensors, a class of devices that is able to analyze whole blood samples, and detect the presence of cancer biomarkers in them. The latter are chemical agents that tumors and cancer cells produce, and their existe... |
14 December 2009
01:26 GMT |
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'Back to Sleep' was an initiative devised by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) some years ago, to make parents aware of the fact that they needed to put their babies to sleep on their backs. This was extremely important, NIH officials said at the time, because it was the only known way to reduce th... |
8 December 2009
05:57 GMT |
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As the quest for the smallest material and basic components of matter accelerates, scientists around the world are currently faced with a more and more pressing issue – the lack of appropriate means of investigating single atoms and molecules. They require a tool that can detect even the smallest amounts of mov... |
27 April 2009
04:05 GMT |
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According to climate change models covering the Ancient history of the Earth, the Antarctic became covered with the ice sheets it's losing today some 33.5 million years ago, when the overall climate cooled significantly and the planet got converted from a greenhouse to an “ice house.” In the February... |
27 February 2009
07:07 GMT |
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A recent study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE on October 3rd ended a 120-year-old controversy on what happened with the fingers of reptilians that evolved into birds. Many speculated that birds simply lost their pinky and ring finger, while others said that they still existed, but were inhibited from d... |
4 October 2008
05:36 GMT |
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