Book examines ethical, advocacy issues in biomedical research
...r families when potential outcomes of research are exaggerated and risks are downplayed. "There is a widely held faith that research will rescue us from the burdens of being human - from the illnesses, suffering and death that go along with our status as biological organisms," she says. "This book describes som...Cardiovascular system holds a key to circadian clock
...t the day. This pattern, circadian variability, is exaggerated in patients who have high blood pressure, suggesting that the mechanisms which control this rhythm are disturbed. Indeed, this altered biorhythm seems to have clinical consequences. Heart attacks and strokes occur most commonly early in the morni...Researchers find first gene that increases risk of Crohn's disease
...ria by the innate immune system might result in an exaggerated inflammatory response subsequently by the adaptive immune system, which reacts more slowly but produces very targeted weapons against invaders and retains a lasting "memory" of prior infections. It is clear, however, that the mutations play an impor...Cincinnati Children's researchers uncover critical food allergy pathway
...plex food allergies not related to anaphylaxis (an exaggerated allergic reaction), such as allergic reactions to peanuts. They found that the inflammatory response involved in allergic intestinal inflammation is governed by eotaxin. Eotaxin belongs to a family of molecules called chemokines, which play a majo...'Scarlet E' still taints media, still distorts epilepsy
...e, overestimates of risk of dying from seizures or exaggerated treatment claims, says Hopkins neurologist Gregory L. Krauss, M.D., who led the research team. "Some articles even recycled ancient misconceptions linking seizures to the devil," he says. Forty-five percent were guilty of the less dangerous but sti......with the lines, and therefore weren't receiving an exaggerated amount of optical input. Flying close to tunnel walls-particularly those decorated with overly busy wallpaper-amplified the bees' perception of distance, skewing the insects' optical odometer by as much as a factor of 31, the Science paper conclu...Genetic testing and modified diets may save babies born with genetic defect
...f the mother. Further, they said thiseffect may be exaggerated by the decreased ability of the mother to use fattyacids for energy during pregnancy.<P Ibdah said one of the liver disorders, called acute fatty liver ofpregnancy, "is a devastating disorder associated with substantial maternal andneonata...The Sagan criteria for life revisited
...d to make three separate exposures, combined in an exaggerated color scheme to emphasize composition differences - blue hues reveal titanium rich areas while orange and purple colors show regions relatively poor in titanium and iron. More information. While Earth is known to be teeming with life, the Moon is ...Should Great Apes Be Given Legal Rights?
...he human-like qualities of thegreat apes have been exaggerated for political reasons. The Great Ape Project has used the same arguments to call for a UnitedNations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes. That declaration wouldguarantee chimps and their close relatives all the rights contained in the New...Birds Sing The 'Story Of Their Lives,' Theorize Duke Biologists
... held that the elaborate male bird song,like other exaggerated male mating traits, was an arbitrarily chosen symb...tewarbling of male song birds is, indeed, a highly exaggerated trait, Nowickisaid. "Bird song is far more complex than it needs to be for the informationit...