Scottish researchers who are currently hoping to develop synthetic human blood have been given a license to use stem cells to manufacture the blood. Researchers at the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh University and Roslin Cells have been granted the license by UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), taking them another step closer to conducting clinical trials to test the synthetic blood. The study is being ...
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In a research letter, Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., S.M. and his colleagues "sought to investigate preferences for participation in the decision-making process among individuals hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction ([AMI] or heart attack)." Harlan M. Krumholz is from Yale University School of Medicine. The researchers combined data from two similar AMI registries (TRIUMPH and PREMIER) which resulted in 6,636 patients in the study sample who were asked about who should ...
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A new study conducted by Dutch researchers reveals that people who suffer from anorexia walk as if they are larger than they actually are. Researchers at Utrecht University observed 39 women, 19 with anorexia and 20 without the condition, as they walked through doors of varying sizes while performing a distracting memorization task. The researchers found that while the women who did not suffer from anorexia started to walk sideways when the openings were 25 percent ...
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An international team of researchers has identified the set of genes that are linked with academic performance, a new study published in the journal Science reveals. The study involved researchers from Cornell University, New York University, Erasmus University, Harvard University, the University of Queensland and the University of Bristol who looked at more than 125,000 adults from United States, Australia and 13 western European countries. The researchers ...
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A new study conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital suggests that women who are physically and sexually abused during their childhood were more likely to suffer from food addiction in their adulthood. The researchers used data from the Nurses' Health Study II which involved more than 57,300 women. The researchers found that those who were either physically or sexually abused in their childhood were 90 percent more likely to suffer from food addiction ...
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