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Right-handed And Left-handed People Do Not See The Same Bright Side Of Things, According To Several Studies

Right-handed And Left-handed People Do Not See The Same Bright Side Of Things, According To Several Studies Despite the almost universal association of the right with life, right, positive and good things, and the left with death, inadequacy, negative and bad things, recent researches show that left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become… Seguir Leyendo Right-handed And Left-handed People Do Not See The Same Bright Side Of Things, According To Several Studies

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How High Can A Climber Go?

How High Can A Climber Go? The maximum time an athlete is able to continue climbing to exhaustion may be the only determinant of his/her performance. A new European study, led by researchers from the University of Granada, the objective of which is to help trainers and climbers design training programmes for this type of… Seguir Leyendo How High Can A Climber Go?

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Earlier Diagnosis Of Ocular Pathologies Such As Keratitis And Macular Degeneration

Earlier Diagnosis Of Ocular Pathologies Such As Keratitis And Macular Degeneration Researchers from the University of Granada have provided an early diagnosis of certain ocular diseases that are very common today, such as age-related macular degeneration and keratitis, by applying an existing optical technique that had never before been used for this purpose. Scientists from… Seguir Leyendo Earlier Diagnosis Of Ocular Pathologies Such As Keratitis And Macular Degeneration

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Scientists Achieve Early Diagnosis Of Ocular Pathologies Such As Keratitis And Age-related Macular Degeneration

Scientists Achieve Early Diagnosis Of Ocular Pathologies Such As Keratitis And Age-related Macular Degeneration Researchers from the UGR have provided an early diagnosis of certain ocular diseases that are very common today, such as age-related macular degeneration and keratitis, by applying an existing optical technique that, nevertheless, had never before been used for this purpose.… Seguir Leyendo Scientists Achieve Early Diagnosis Of Ocular Pathologies Such As Keratitis And Age-related Macular Degeneration

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Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer And Allows Reduction In Dosage

Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer And Allows Reduction In Dosage Researchers at the University of Granada have found a suicide gene, called \’gene E\’, which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. The importance of this new gene is that… Seguir Leyendo Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer And Allows Reduction In Dosage

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Association Between Consumption Of Certain Fish During Pregnancy And Poorer Cognitive Performance

Association Between Consumption Of Certain Fish During Pregnancy And Poorer Cognitive Performance Children who eat fish more than 3 times per week show a worse performance in the general cognitive, executive and perceptual-manipulative areas. Those with higher levels of exposure to mercury show a generalised delay in cognitive, memory and verbal areas. Mercury is a… Seguir Leyendo Association Between Consumption Of Certain Fish During Pregnancy And Poorer Cognitive Performance

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The Use Of Stem Cells In Regenerative Medicine May Be Detrimental For Health

The Use Of Stem Cells In Regenerative Medicine May Be Detrimental For Health The use of stem cells in regenerative medicine is not always beneficial for human health, it may even be harmful according to a work done by the University of Granada and University of León. Scientists have demonstrated that transplantation of human mononuclear… Seguir Leyendo The Use Of Stem Cells In Regenerative Medicine May Be Detrimental For Health

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The Consumption Of Melatonin, A Natural Hormone Segregated By The Own Human Body, Regulates Sleep Better Than Somniferous

The Consumption Of Melatonin, A Natural Hormone Segregated By The Own Human Body, Regulates Sleep Better Than Somniferous Melatonin, a natural hormone segregated by the own human body, is an excellent sleep regulator expected to replace somniferous, which are much more aggressive, to correct the sleep/wakefulness pace when human biological clock becomes altered. Those are… Seguir Leyendo The Consumption Of Melatonin, A Natural Hormone Segregated By The Own Human Body, Regulates Sleep Better Than Somniferous

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Adolescents Think That School Bullying «has Always Happened And Will Keep On Happening» And They Resign Themselves To This Problem

Adolescents Think That School Bullying «has Always Happened And Will Keep On Happening» And They Resign Themselves To This Problem Most of the adolescents think that bullying in the school context «has always happened and will continue happening», and present «a negative, pessimistic and resigned attitude» towards this social problem, which makes difficult the intervention… Seguir Leyendo Adolescents Think That School Bullying «has Always Happened And Will Keep On Happening» And They Resign Themselves To This Problem

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Reminders From Intelligent System Increase The Independence Of Those With Special Needs

Reminders From Intelligent System Increase The Independence Of Those With Special Needs A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which reminds elderly people or people with special needs of certain everyday tasks. This system uses sensors distributed in the environment in order to detect… Seguir Leyendo Reminders From Intelligent System Increase The Independence Of Those With Special Needs