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Where the Fat’s At

UC San Diego-led team of scientists create novel map of lipid locations in a single cell
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Study Finds an Increased Risk of Death in Men with Insomnia and a Short Sleep Duration

DARIEN, IL – A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found an elevated risk of death in men with a complaint of chronic insomnia and an objectively measured short sleep duration. The results suggest that public health policy should emphasize the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of chronic insomnia....
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Research targets basic metabolism of disease-causing fungi, bacteria

BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 23, 2010 – Pablo Sobrado, assistant professor of biochemistry with the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech, has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance his research on the mechanism of iron acquisition in fungi and mycobacteria....
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Study to determine how best to help anorexia sufferers

Three promising state of the art treatments for anorexia nervosa are being trialled in an international study led by The University of Western Australia....
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UT Southwestern scientists pry new information from disease-causing, shellfish-borne bacterium

DALLAS – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered a key weapon in the molecular arsenal the infectious bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. para) uses to kill cells and cause food poisoning in its human host....
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Chronic Health Conditions Common for Stem Cell Transplant Survivors

(WASHINGTON) – Although hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) cures many blood diseases, two-thirds of long-term survivors report at least one chronic health condition after the procedure, according to a recent study published online in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology. ...
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A Little Adversity Bodes Well for Those with Chronic Back Pain

Some trouble in their lives yields surprising protective effects...
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Colitis patients diagnosed later in life tend to have better disease outcomes

By Jim Dryden - Adults diagnosed with ulcerative colitis after age 50 are more likely to achieve remission from their symptoms than patients diagnosed at younger ages, even when those patients receive similar treatments, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis....
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Diabetes-Related Protein May Play Role in Other Disorders

Studying a protein already known to play an important role in type 2 diabetes and cancer, genomics researchers have discovered that it may have an even broader role in disease, particularly in other metabolic disorders and heart disease. In finding unsuspected links to other disease-related genes, the scientists may have identified future targets for drug treatments. ...
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Important Clue to Understanding the Pathogenesis of Ciliary Disorders

Neuherberg - A research team led by Dr. Heiko Lickert of Helmholtz Zentrum München has pinpointed a gene that is essential for the physiologically correct disassembly of cilia. Errors in the regulation of cilia assembly are implicated in a variety of human syndromes....
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