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Psychology professor studies mother-son relationships, behavior
Wayne State U. psychology assistant professor Christopher Trentacosta has conducted a survey with psychologists from other universities to research the change of mother-son relationships in low-income communities in Pittsburgh, Penn.
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Mutant protein is key to fighting Ebola virus
The African Ebola filovirus is a master hijacker. Co-opting a host cell’s cargo-transport system, an Ebola virus passes undetected through a cell’s outer membrane and overtakes the host’s molecular machinery for its own proliferation.
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Column: Hack your body to achieve successful college weight loss
They are everywhere. They are impossible to avoid. They are at every major intersection and on every television channel. What are they? Weight loss ads.
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Column: Frankenburgers could save energy and the environment
Researchers around the world are racing to develop a commercially viable alternative to meat, without the inconvenience of raising and slaughtering millions of animals every year.
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Progressing quickly through puberty may cause long-term problems
New research suggests that kids may experience less anxiety if they progress slowly through their awkward teenage years.
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Researchers study health effects of World Trade Center dust
Paul Lioy, director of Exposure Science at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) at Rutgers U., still feels proud after 10 years of the mass cooperation that drew the country together after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Study links diet sodas to weight gain
In comparison to diet drinks, regular soda undoubtedly wins in calorie count. Yet the question persists in whether or not diet drinks really help in weight loss. The question continues to be open for debate and discussion. The issue came to the forefront after a recent study by the U.
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Researchers link certain pesticides to prostate cancer
Researchers at U. Southern California have found that men in California’s Central valley who have been exposed to certain pesticides exhibit a greater prevalence of prostate cancer than those who were not.
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Column: You and Jason Wren
I’ve always been told to write what I know. But sometimes what you don’t know is far more important than what you do. I didn’t know Jason Wren. You didn’t know him either. Jason was a 19-year-old student at U. Kansas. Jason died in March 2009, alone, in a bed at his fraternity house.
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