health & fitness
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CT angiography appears better at predicting future risk for patients with chest pain
An analysis of diagnostic test results from a trial comparing anatomic with functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy for patients with...
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Healthy diet? That depends on your genes
Shifts in the diets of Europeans after the introduction of farming 10,000 years ago led to genetic adaptations that favored the dietary trends of...
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Lab on a chip could monitor health, germs and pollutants
Imagine wearing a device that continuously analyzes your sweat or blood for different types of biomarkers, such as proteins that show you may have...
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Personalized PRRT improves radiation delivery to neuroendocrine tumors
Neuroendocrine cancer is exceedingly difficult to manage and unlikely to be cured, but researchers intend to slow progression of these tumors and...
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Combining radionuclide therapy with a PARP inhibitor slows neuroendocrine tumor growth
Patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) may experience fewer symptoms and survive longer by undergoing peptide-receptor radionuclide therapy...
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'DNA is a bully' that hustles transcribers to targets
"DNA is a bully." That's how one researcher sums up the dominant power of DNA motion among the forces acting upon transcription factors as they...
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5 Dumbbell Exercises for a Full-Body Burn
This article was originally published on DailyBurn.com. If you want to kill two workout birds ( cardio and strength) with...
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Uncovered: 1,000 new microbial genomes
Scientists have taken a decisive step forward in uncovering the planet's microbial diversity. They report the release of 1,003 phylogenetically...
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Proteins which suppress the growth of breast cancer tumors discovered
A type of protein has been discovered that could hold the secret to suppressing the growth of breast cancer tumors, say scientists.
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Why Planks and Push-Ups Are Killing Your Wrists (and What to Do About It)
[brightcove:5392761768001 default] Have you ever had to come out of a high plank not because your core was on fire—but because your...
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Socioeconomic background linked to reading improvement
Neuroscientists have found that dyslexic children from lower income families responded much better to a summer reading program than children from a...
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Animal models can't 'tune out' stimuli, mimicking sensory hypersensitivity in humans
Mice genetically engineered to mimic a type of autism in humans, fragile X syndrome, are unable to adapt to, or tune out, repeated stimulation to...