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Hoarding, hand-washing and obsessive checking: Which of these is not like the others?
People with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder can often shake their family tree and find a relative who has also contended with obsessive thoughts, hoarding, repetitive hand-washing, behavior in which locks and stove burners are checked over...Tags: Twins, Biology, Psychotherapy, DNA, Genetics
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Brain Development Rate Linked to IQ
Times Staff WriterSmart children have a different rhythm in their heads — a seesaw pattern of growth that lags years behind other young people — say government scientists who mapped the brains of hundreds of children. Seeking a link between neural anatomy...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Philosophy, University of Oxford, Health and Safety at School, Science and Technology
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POLITICS: Bush's decision will set course of U.S. research
Tribune science reporterStem cells have become the Aladdin's lamp of biology, potentially granting wishes of curing Alzheimer's disease, heart failure, diabetes and other common killer disorders that affect 128 million Americans. Whether the lamp gets rubbed sufficiently to...Tags: Biotechnology, National Institutes of Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Health Organizations, Science and Technology
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What does gay look like? Science keeps trying to figure that out
![Last month, Sen. John McCain dropped by <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/john-mccain-tak.html">“Saturday Night Live,”</a> drawing laughs from his promise, if elected president, to fight expensive federal projects -- such as, he spoofed, a Department of Defense device to "jam gaydar."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39869570-16100429.jpg "Last month, Sen. John McCain dropped by <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/john-mccain-tak.html\">“Saturday Night Live,”</a> drawing laughs from his promise, if elected president, to fight expensive federal projects -- such as, he spoofed, a Department of Defense device to \"jam gaydar.\"")
Special to The TimesLast month, Sen. John McCain dropped by “Saturday Night Live,” drawing laughs from his promise, if elected president, to fight expensive federal projects -- such as, he spoofed, a Department of Defense device to "jam gaydar." That was a joke....Tags: Barbra Streisand, John McCain, Biology, Rehoboth Beach, Science and Technology
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Kimberly McBroom's Blog
Tuesday, May 7 I truly hope you were able to catch "Susan's Story," either last night at 6 or today on WDBJ 7 Mornin'. Susan Bahorich bravely shared her personal struggle with ovarian cancer. I am so proud of her for being open and honest with what she is...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Brunch, Soups, The Salvation Army, Dirty Dancing (movie)
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Cellphones may harm memory, pregnancy, brain cells -- in rats, mice and rabbits. Maybe.
Steady exposure to the electromagnetic radiation given off by cellphones during use may disrupt fetal development, disturb memory and weaken the barrier that protects the brain from environmental toxins, says a welter of new research being presented...Tags: DNA, Human Body, Maryland, Health and Safety at School, Istanbul (Turkey)
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Metra finds 'alarming' pollution on some trains
Metra's own testing of toxic diesel exhaust inside its passenger coaches shows the transit agency's pollution problems are more extensive and worrisome than it has publicly disclosed, according to records obtained by the Tribune.
A summary of tests...Tags: Asthma, Columbia University, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Metra completes air quality testing on the Rock Island District line
Metra has completed testing the air quality on the first of its train lines in response to a Tribune investigation that found the amount of diesel soot lingering in the air steadily increases as commuters walk deeper into Union Station or the Ogilvie...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Diabetes
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Clearing the air on Metra pollution
Metra says it doesn't have enough money to replace its oldest, dirtiest locomotives, but U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Monday nudged the transit agency to find ways to clear the air in Chicago's soot-choked rail stations and inside the train cars that carry...Tags: Environmental Issues, Standards, Environmental Politics, Science and Technology, Politics
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Metra riders subjected to high amounts of diesel soot
Day after day, thousands of commuters are breathing high levels of toxic diesel pollution trapped in Chicago's two major rail stations and even inside the trains they ride, a Tribune investigation has found.
Testing by the newspaper found the amount of...Tags: Asthma, Columbia University, Transportation, George W. Bush, Chicago Transit Authority
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To prevent stroke injury, sing, dance, touch, look, move?
![For those lucky enough to have the first signs of a stroke recognized by friends or family, things often get very quiet very quickly as 911 calls are made, gurneys are wheeled in and tests are conducted. University of California Irvine neuroscientist <a title="The lab from which research emerges" href="http://frostiglab.bio.uci.edu/" target="_blank">Ron D. Frostig</a> says that if rats are any guide to human health (and they often are the starting point for new treatments), stroke victims might do a lot better with a quick dose of stimulation instead.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/66161082-17161249.jpg "For those lucky enough to have the first signs of a stroke recognized by friends or family, things often get very quiet very quickly as 911 calls are made, gurneys are wheeled in and tests are conducted. University of California Irvine neuroscientist <a title="The lab from which research emerges\" href=\"http://frostiglab.bio.uci.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron D. Frostig</a> says that if rats are any guide to human health (and they often are the starting point for new treatments), stroke victims might do a lot better with a quick dose of stimulation instead.")
For those lucky enough to have the first signs of a stroke recognized by friends or family, things often get very quiet very quickly as 911 calls are made, gurneys are wheeled in and tests are conducted. University of California Irvine neuroscientist...Tags: University of California, Irvine, Stress, Human Body, Stroke, National Institutes of Health
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Brain's Darwin Machine
Times Staff WriterLA JOLLA, Calif. — Alysson Muotri was looking for brain cells that glow in the dark. With growing frustration, the 31-year-old Brazilian cancer biologist stared through his microscope at slides of brain tissue for any evidence his experiment had...Tags: Princeton University, Forehead, Biology, DNA, Science and Technology
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