Millions of individuals undergo cataract surgery each year. Although removal of cataracts restores vision, approximately 20% of adults and most children develop a re-clouding of…
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Traditionally, medicine has been based on the disease and not the patient. This means that for the same disease, e.g. childhood leukemia, two very different…
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Scientists detected a large number of chemical pollutants in freshly-laid eggs of hawksbill turtles along the Yucatán coast of Mexico. Due to their widespread use…
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Gains in body weight over a number of years could be achieved through cumulative positive energy balances, as a set of habitual behaviors adopted by…
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AMD (Age-related Macular Degenerescence) is the first cause of visual impairment. The main characteristic of the disease is the occurrence of drusen at an early…
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I bet you know there are amazing coral reefs in the tropics you can see while snorkeling. Did you know corals keep going deeper than…
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Central European mountains are covered predominantly by forests. Norway spruce is the most frequently-occurring species and the most affected one. Windstorms and subsequent insect outbreaks…
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Pompe disease is a rare and potentially fatal metabolic myopathy (prevalence 1 in 20,000). In Pompe disease, the deficiency of lysosomal acid α-glucosidase (GAA) leads…
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While no one wants to receive a cancer diagnosis, a number of treatments are now available, making the likelihood of a favorable outcome better than…
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Energy conversion occurs everywhere. Solar panels convert sunlight into electricity, car engines convert chemical energy in gasoline into kinetic energy that accelerates a vehicle, and…
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In biology, an organ system refers to a group of one or more organs arranged in a particular way that work together to perform some physiological function….
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