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How to defeat Alzheimer's
Those of us fortunate enough to make it to 80 will have a 50% chance of suffering from Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia before we die. And there is currently no known way to reduce the odds or slow the mental deterioration. These grim facts...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Diseases and Illnesses, AIDS
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Athletes only too happy to be 'lab rats'
After discovering that a promising new drug caused multiple types of cancer in lab animals, the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline stopped developing the compound. But the failed experimental drug, called GW501516, is making a comeback in another...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Steroids, Breast Cancer, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama's BRAIN Initiative to cost far less than Human Genome Project
President Obama’s brain-mapping initiative, for which he has proposed $110 million in federal funding for 2014, will focus how on how the brain is affected by conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and autism; how it produces...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Behavioral Conditions, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , White House, Schizophrenia
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Research firm reaped stem cell funds despite panel's advice
StemCells Inc. has a history not much different from those of dozens, even hundreds, of biotech companies all around California. Co-founded by an eminent Stanford research scientist, the Newark, Calif., firm has struggled financially while trying to push...
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Scientists Unveil New Blueprint Of How The Human Genome Works
The Hartford CourantWhen the human genome was sequenced a decade ago, scientists hailed the feat as a technical tour de force -- but they also knew it was just a start. Our DNA blueprint was finally laid bare, but no one knew what it all meant. Now an international team...Tags: Biology, Medical Research, Birth Defects, The New York Times, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Colorado shooting suspect shy, 'socially inept,' classmate recalls
L.A. NOWMore details emerged over the weekend concerning James Holmes, the suspect in the "Dark Knight" Colorado movie theater shooting. Many friends in California said he was a gifted student and intelligent person -- but others said he was more complicated........ -
Colorado shooting suspect was 'smartest guy in the class'
L.A. NOWJames Holmes, the suspect in the "Dark Knight" Colorado shooting, was "one of the smartest kids in the class," according to a former teaching assistant of the alleged shooter.... -
Southern California Close-Ups: San Diego, Coronado and La Jolla
San Diego could be improved. If the county had 75 miles of beaches instead of 70. If the Padres won a World Series or the Chargers won a Super Bowl. Or if the municipal sloganeers dropped "America's finest city" in favor of "You stay classy, San Diego."...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Torrey Pines Golf Course, Animal, Tourism and Leisure, Los Angeles Dodgers
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