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Oxytocin will determine whether you are generous or selfish
Can the chemicals in your body affect your personality: generous or selfish? In recent years, experiments have explored the role of a substance called oxytocin - a subst…
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Green coffee helps to lose weight
Scientists at the University of Scranton (USA) have shown the latest evidence that green (unroasted) coffee beans can help significantly reduce body weight in people.
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Create brain cells from urine
The water that humans throw out of their bodies daily can become a source of brain cells for scientific research.
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She was born with a heart outside her body
Girl Audrina Cardenas, from Houston (USA), has extremely rare ectopia cordis syndrome, causing her heart to grow outside her body.
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Brain Gene creates people
International experts have discovered a gene that can help explain why humans have surpassed other primates in evolution.
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Detection of DNA mosaic structure
Current science suggests that all cells in the body contain identical DNA. However, a new study of skin stem cells has found that genetic variation is widespread in the…
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Doctors are easily averse to fat people
The patient's body weight really affects the feelings of the doctor, because they tend to think and act negatively when meeting overweight people.
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She only survived on milk
Because of an incurable disease that makes the body unable to convert food into energy, a 9-year-old British girl must live entirely on milk.
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Mobile phones are harmful to the fetus
Radiation from mobile phones during pregnancy affects the brain development of pediatrics and may even cause attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, accord…
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Natural breast production for breast cancer patients
Doctors at University of O 'Brien (Melbourne - Australia) used fat cells to successfully implant breast tissue for 5 women with breast cancer.
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Hunger-causing hormones increase life expectancy
Diet prolonged lifespan. That is the result of many research projects. Yet scientists at the Southwest Medical Center of the University of Texas (USA) have found a simpl…
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Cure cancer with ... magnets?
Extremely powerful magnets, which can make the tumor self-destruct will be a revolutionary new weapon in the fight against cancer.
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Discover a new type of fat in humans
Dana-Farber Institute of Medicine scientists (USA) have found that in brown body fat brown and white fat also has another type of light pinkish brown (often called beige…
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Effect of gravity on the immune system
The new finding shows that gravity changes like the situation that is affecting astronauts and scientists on the International Space Station (ISS) can affect the body's…
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Brain size have decided to intelligence?
Evolution is largely not controlled by the brain. The most common criterion for assessing animal intelligence, the relationship between brain size and body size, may not…