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Cell body clocks are altered in depression
Our biological rhythms are tuned to the day-night cycles, light-dark cycles in which we live because the cells of our body have an in-built timekeeping capacity. Each cell has an internal clock, driven by the cyclic expression of certain genes, which in turn is kept in time by a master clock in the brain. [...]
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History: The War Against Infection
Nathan Smith explains how the pre-antibiotic era could come back to help us We stand on the brink of the post-antibiotic era, with bacteria becoming increasingly resistant to existing drugs and with few new ones in the pipeline. In light of this fact, scientists are revisiting early antibiotic agents in the search for a new [...]
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Away from the Bench: Altitude Science
Two weeks before he treks out, Elly Smith talks to Dr Andrew Murray about science on Everest At the foot of the highest mountain in the world, surrounded by rocks and ice, lies one of the most hostile environments on the planet. Here, the air is too thin for helicopters to approach; one wreckage lies [...]
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Genetic flags identify cancer causing genes
More than 1000 scientists have been involved in a recent study that has discovered over 80 genetic markers associated with cancer. The study is so far the largest of its kind, involving 200,000 participants, half of whom were cancer sufferers. It has doubled the known number of genetic markers known as single nucleotide polymorphisms [...]
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Feature: Food for Thought?
Brianne Kent investigates the links between appetite and brain development. The hormone that is making you hungry might also be making you smarter. There is growing evidence of an important relationship between metabolic processes and cognitive function. For example, caloric restriction, the dietary regimen that limits calorie intake, has been shown to reduce age-related [...]
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Medsin Cambridge Event: Film Screening, ‘They Go to Die’
Medsin Cambridge and RESULTS UK are proud to present a screening and Q&A with the director of new hard hitting global health documentary ‘They Go To Die’, at Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Theatre on 13/03/13 at 7 pm. The film follows the lives of four former migrant goldmine workers in South Africa and [...]
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Game on: why video games help you to read
“Stop playing those video games, they rot your brain!” - A phrase likely to become a thing of the past. Facoetti and colleagues from the University of Padua and the Scientific Institute Medea of Bosisio Parini in Italy have discovered that playing just 12 hours of video games improves the reading abilities of dyslexic [...]
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The scars of human evolution and standing on our own two feet
The transition from walking on four legs to walking on two legs has resulted in some unwelcome side effects, new research shows. A team at Case Western Reserve University, led by Meghan Cotter, PhD, looked at vertebrae across orang-utans, chimps, gorillas and humans. Comparing the relative vertebral size, shape and internal structure, the team [...]
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Key B cell lymphoma gene identified