Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
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...ents are enrolled in the randomized clinical trial immediately afterexperiencing an initial heart attack, and undergo a check-up 20 days later,followed by one at six months. Half receive the antibiotic, and half receive aplacebo. An initial blood test looks at the effect of the medication andcompares to see if a...Discovery Of New Large, Predatory Dinosaur Reported In Science
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...ects," Song noted. "If garlic was heated orroasted immediately after crushing, the enzyme was de-activated by the heatingprocess and garlic's anti-cancer effects were blocked." Song and Milner conducted the study with rats given garlic by intubationsix times over a two-week period. The rats received garl......ure is greater when the temperatureincrease occurs immediately after the stroke. Only one percent of the patient... Among the158 patients who had a high temperature immediately after the stroke, 15.8percent of them died within three months. In 57.6 percent with hyperthermia, o...Duke Study Shows Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant Is Viable Treatment For Genetic Disorders
... The Portsmouth, Va., couple didn't hesitate. They immediately contactedthe Duke team to begin the process of searching for a transplant match for theirunborn daughter. "We had everything ready before she arrived," the girls'mother said. "All we had to do was wait for Cassidy." The baby, Cassidy, receiv...First Complete Fossil Of Fierce Prehistoric Predator Found In South Africa
...fossil has ever been found, in sediment beds lying immediately belowthose marking the mass extinction. Ward said the specimen should yield valuableclues about the extinction and provide a better understanding of how theextinction took place. "It survived until very nearly the last gasp of the Permian," Ward said...Staring And Squirming Help Babies Explore
...ts' visual attention disengages, and motoractivity immediately begins to subside. "We think this may be an adaptive behavior that helps an infant to unlock herattention so she can take in a broader sample of the visual environment," saysRobertson. This association between visual attention and movement, Roberts...Bones of Crocodile-like Beasts Tell Tale of Global Warming
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...the idea. We got back in touch with Dr.Gruber and immediately started making arrangements to join his next mission." The new site, which is called @Sea®, has taken shape over the last two monthsand is on the verge of broadcasting its first live mission. Seeking to attractas many web surfers as possible to ...Study Finds Choline Deficiency Harms Memory Center In Mammals' Brains
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...enerated. Thus, the information will be available immediately to academicresearchers answering critical questions about human disease through basicbiomedical research, and to corporate scientists engaged in drug development tofight human disease." Dr. Michael Morgan, chief executive of the Wellcome Trust Genome...Tip Sheet: Papers Of Interest, 95th Annual Meeting, Association Of American Geographers
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...control of people's ownhealth care to them through immediately available and highly personalizedinformation, collected routinely throughout the day in the normal course oftheir lives." In each project engineers and scientists are working closely withphysicians from the outset, making sure the health-care...