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  Mind Over Matter? Core Body Temperature Controlled by the Brain

  April 8, 2013 — Scientists have shown, for the first time, that it is possible for core body temperature to be controlled by the brain. The scientists found that core body temperature increases can be achieved using ... > full story
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  How Our Bodies Interact With Our Minds in Response to Fear and Other Emotions

  April 7, 2013 — New research has shown that the way our minds react to and process emotions such as fear can vary according to what is happening in other parts of our ... > full story
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  Microalgae Produce More Oil Faster for Energy, Food or Products

  April 7, 2013 — Scientists have described technology that accelerates microalgae’s ability to produce many different types of renewable oils for fuels, chemicals, foods and personal-care products within days ... > full story
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  Do Cells in the Blood, Heart and Lungs Smell the Food We Eat?

  April 7, 2013 — In a discovery suggesting that odors may have a far more important role in life than previously believed, scientists have found that heart, blood, lung and other cells in the body have the same ... > full story
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  Device Keeps Human Liver Alive Outside Body

  April 7, 2013 — In a world first, a donated human liver has been 'kept alive' outside a human being and then successfully transplanted into a patient in need of a new ... > full story
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  New Link Between Heart Disease and Red Meat: New Understanding of Cardiovascular Health Benefits of Vegan, Vegetarian Diets

  April 7, 2013 — A compound abundant in red meat and added as a supplement to popular energy drinks has been found to promote atherosclerosis -- or the hardening or clogging of the ... > full story
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  Brain's Stress Circuits Undergo Profound Learning Early in Life, Scientists Find

  April 7, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that stress circuits in the brain undergo profound learning early in life. Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including optogenetics, scientists have shown stress ... > full story
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  Engineering Algae to Make the 'Wonder Material' Nanocellulose for Biofuels and More

  April 7, 2013 — Genes from the family of bacteria that produce vinegar, Kombucha tea and nata de coco have become stars in a project -- which scientists today said has reached an advanced stage -- that would turn ... > full story
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  Lift Weights to Lower Blood Sugar? White Muscle Helps Keep Blood Glucose Levels Under Control

  April 7, 2013 — Researchers have challenged a long-held belief that whitening of skeletal muscle in diabetes is ... > full story
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  Fetal Exposure to Excessive Stress Hormones in the Womb Linked to Adult Mood Disorders

  April 7, 2013 — Exposure of the developing fetus to excessive levels of stress hormones in the womb can cause mood disorders in later life and now, for the first time, researchers have found a mechanism that may ... > full story

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