Health & Medicine
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Sun up
Men with lower concentrations of vitamin D have higher risk of heart attack.
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Wake up and smell the java
The smell of coffee leads to changes in gene activity in sleep-deprived rats, hinting at the molecular basis for the relaxing effect of the aroma seen in experiments.
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Nabbing suspicious SNPs
Scientists search the whole genome for clues to common diseases.
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Thanks for the future memories
To the brain, remembering the past and visualizing the future look surprisingly similar.
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BOOK REVIEW | Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer
Review by Nathan Seppa.
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BOOK LIST | Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about Management
The former CEO of Amgen narrates the company’s rise from start-up to biotech giant. Harvard Business School Press, 2008, 288 p., $29.95 SCIENCE LESSONS: WHAT THE BUSINESS OF BIOTECH TAUGHT ME ABOUT MANAGEMENT
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BOOK LIST | On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine
The rise, fall and resurgence of the original “anti-depressants.” ON SPEED: THE MANY LIVES OF AMPHETAMINE New York Univ. Press, 2008, 352 p., $29.95 (cloth).
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Tame-walk potion
A one-two sting and a cockroach lets a wasp lead it like a dog on a leash.
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Brain trauma
Cooling the body temperature of a child who has severe brain injury doesn’t seem to help recovery, but the jury is still out.
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Bad synergy
Hookworm and other parasite infections work in concert to heighten risk of anemia in children. The problem may be especially bad for school-aged children, whose learning ability is often compromised by anemia.
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Microbes clean up mercury
Researchers think a microbe could clean up mercury-laced Native American artifacts.
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A Faulty Eye Witness: Hallucinations
Treatment for Oliver Sacks' cancer damaged an eye and triggered something he never expected: his brain to display things that simply didn’t exist.
