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Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet

...extraordinary."The previous black hole record-holder is as large as 6 billion suns.In research released Monday by the journal Nature, the scientists suggest these black holes may be the leftovers of quasars that crammed the early universe. They...

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Loads of fun but - video games won't make you smarter

...what to think about them and kind of got excited in both positive and negative ways." This month's edition of the journal Nature Reviews/Neuroscience includes an article on video game research, describing it as being still in its early days...

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Science ponders frog deformities

...chemical contaminants, climate change, habitat changes and non-native species. A study released Thursday in the journal ''Nature'' even suggested that global warming may have caused the mysterious disappearance of 20 frog species in Costa...

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Cure for cancer?

...their blood supply. Tests on people are about to get under way. The mice study, published in today's issue of the journal Nature, involves two genes called Id1 and Id3 that were found to play a vital role in the little-understood process of...

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Study: Stunted brain protein might promote Alzheimer's disease

...roles the tangles and the plaques each play in causing Alzheimer's. The new work is reported in today's issue of the journal Nature by a team including Li-Huei Tsai, an associate pathology professor at Harvard Medical School and a researcher...

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Researchers see way to reduce bone cancer pain

...identified,'' said Dr. Denis Clohisy, an orthopedic surgeon and one of the lead authors of Monday's report in the journal Nature Medicine. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration. Clohisy and...

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Health
Capsule camera the latest in diagnostic medicine

...capsule's development by Swain and Given Imaging, an Israeli company. The initial test results were published today in the journal Nature. Ten healthy volunteers swallowed the high-tech capsules, which are slightly larger than an antibiotic and covered...

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Scientists unveil cloning technique that targets specific genes

...Milind Suraokar and Allan Bradley write in a commentary accompanying the research report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. More than 10 years have passed since scientists first learned how to make specific genetic alterations in mice...

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Drug, gene therapy combo shows promising cancer result

...therapy caused tumors to shrink in 25 of 30 patients tested. Their findings are reported in the August issue of the journal Nature Medicine, published Tuesday. Cancerous tumors, some as large as 2 1/2 inches, disappeared in eight patients...

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Health
Men, women genetically close

...the male rate is higher, but only by about 70 percent. The research was led by David Page of the Whitehead Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He and colleagues report the results in the Aug. 10 issue of the journal Nature.

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