Vocal Cord Changes Throughout the Menstrual Cycle

It is not unheard of that a fertile female singer experiences slight fluctuations in the quality of the voice throughout the menstrual cycle...

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Blood heavy metal levels and autism (yet again)

" Data showed that the children with ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  had significantly (p < 0.001) higher levels of mercury and ar...

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Folate-dependent one carbon metabolism and transsulfuration pathways: biomarkers for autism?

I found it a little unusual that the findings reported by Daniel Howsmon and colleagues [1] (open-access) talking about " multivariate...

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Liquid Biopsy for Head and Neck Cancer

Liquid biopsy is when a simple blood draw is performed in order to detect cancer cells (CTC) or mutated DNA fragments (ctDNA) free floating ...

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Fatty acid chemistry and autism

" Fatty acids in both serum and red blood cells were abnormal among this small group of Canadian children with autism compared to contr...

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Mental illness and blood-borne viral infections

" People with serious mental illness are at risk of blood-borne viral infections. " But: " Serious mental illness is unlikely...

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Immune endophenotypes in paediatric autism

Today I'm serving up  the paper by Milo Careaga and colleagues [1] for your blogging delight, who concluded that: " Children with ...

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Homocysteine and autism: yet more...

It's been a while since I've discussed the issue of homocysteine - that's homocysteine not homocystine - with autism in mind, ...

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