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  Heart Disease in Ancient Egypt

  By David Bois | Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:05 PM ET

  just needed a good, easy-to-understand-and-follow food pyramid.The fascinating findings were inspired by a visit to Egypt almost two years ago by University of California Irvine cardiologist Gregory Thomas. The Journal reports that Thomas, along with some peers, was taken aback by museu Read More

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  Pain Goes Away With Mere Thought of Loved One

  By David Bois | Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  911 — letting him or her know that the two of you have a date at the emergency room. Photo courtesy of Hans Andersen, via Wikimedia Common Read More

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  Gates Says Too Many Kids' Deaths Are Preventable

  By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:56 AM ET

  are starting to think about simpler, lower-tech solutions.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have granted $10.9 million to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, to conduct evaluations of several such solutions, according to a press release. The interventions they ar Read More

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  A Genetic Basis for Bad Driving?

  By David Bois | Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:13 PM ET

  enough, the research team had not intended to link genetics with driving at all at the outset of the study. As explained by Reuters, the University of California at Irvine researchers were performing an investigation of memory function, and selected a driver simulation test as th Read More

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  Spotlight on Telomeres

  By Darragh Worland | Mon Oct 5, 2009 4:52 PM ET

  turned out to play a critical role in the understanding of aging, cancer and some genetic diseases.The three winners, Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Massachusetts Genera Read More

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  Hot Women Good for Men's Health

  By Courtney Rubin | Mon Oct 5, 2009 10:17 AM ET

  dipped – suggesting men could be better off having a quick chat with a pretty female pal than hanging out with the boys.Researchers at the University of California, whose findings are published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, recruited 149 male students between the ages of 1 Read More

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  Making Mature Muscles More Manly

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Fri Oct 2, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  study hope to quickly bring their technique for muscle regeneration to clinical trials in order to get the answers. Photo courtesy o Read More

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  Girl Scouts, NSF Fund All-girl Science Camp

  By John Casey | Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:04 PM ET

  school," Sharon Parker, of the Community Science Center in Oakland, Calif., told Walton.Walton writes that professor Carl Pennypacker from the University of California, Berkeley, played a major role at the academy."Boys come jumping up there and take center stage, and don't leave much spac Read More

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  Dead Salmon Tell No Tales

  By David Bois | Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:58 AM ET

  magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is an invaluable tool for providing detailed neurological analysis in a noninvasive, radiation-free manner. But University of California Santa Barbara postdoctoral researcher Craig Bennett’s recent tongue-in-cheek experimentation highlights the need to be o Read More

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  Aww, Just Look at How Sound His Methodology Is! Can We Keep Him?

  By David Bois | Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  work, I don't have a hard time understanding why others get excited about it as well.His work as an astronomer sees him splitting time between the University of California Berkeley and the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., described on their Web site as a private Read More

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