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Anchor lead: Can you reduce your risk of dementia with training? Elizabeth Tracey reports Project Talent tested many teenagers in the 1960s and followed them until recently, finding that men with lower mechanical ability and women with lower linguistic ability …
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Anchor lead: Taking a look at all the genes in tuberculosis can help design more effective treatments, Elizabeth Tracey reports A look at genes, mutations, and resistance to drugs in tuberculosis bacteria published recently in the New England Journal of …
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Anchor lead: A new vaccine against tuberculosis brings hope, Elizabeth Tracey reports A new tuberculosis vaccine protects about 50% of the people who receive it from contracting the infection, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found. …
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Anchor lead: Can a finding in gambling monkeys help people control risk taking behavior? Elizabeth Tracey reports A specific brain area has been shown to impact a trained monkey’s risk-taking choices, a Johns Hopkins study reveals. Veit Stuphorn, a neuroscientist …
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Anchor lead: A new study in monkeys helps understand risk taking behavior, Elizabeth Tracey reports Training monkeys to gamble has identified a new brain region involved in the actual process of choosing to take risks, researchers at Johns Hopkins have …
