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Researchers at the Andalusian Institute for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) and the University of Granada found that cFLIP -an inhibitor of death ligand-induced apoptosis- is not only essential in breast tumor cells resistance to TRAIL treatments (a death...

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Spanish researchers have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 million years ago for the first time in the western Mediterranean. The discovery of these very primitive marine vertebrates has helped scientists to reconstruct the palaeogeography...

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People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level. In addition, fear of death is most common among women than men, which affects their children’s perception of death. In fact, 76% of children that...

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Society appreciates powerful individuals’ efforts, regardless of them having success or failing. Conversely, when someone without such power fails, their failure is attributed to their «unability to carry out their tasks», and their efforts are not appreciated. In other words:...

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The November/December issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences explores the current state of our knowledge of natural selection in plants. «Plants were crucially important to Darwin’s development of the theory of natural selection (six of his books were...

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Within the framework of a recent research project, University of Granada researchers will analyse how sleep disorders affect risk perception in driving. To such purpose, three last-generation simulators provided by the Faculty of Psychology will be employed. The purpose of...

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Adolescents enrolled in private schools employ more efficient strategies to cope with their problems than students in public schools. Further, they also use emotion-oriented coping, as drawn from a study carried out at the University of Granada, recently published in...

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What do we mean by «common sense» when we talk about a disease? What affects the ideas and beliefs that patients have of their disease? Researchers at the University of Granada have developed a test for measuring and assessing chronic...

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Researchers a the University of Granada and the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves at Granada found that the metabolic imaging diagnosis technique -based on the analysis of a structural analog of glucose labeled with a positron-emitting...

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Spanish researchers have developed a new computer technique that allows to «train» computers to interpret the visual contents of a video or picture. This advance will allow to classify automatically pictures basing on whether individuals or specific objects are present...

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