Sentences with phrase «nearly normal adults»

Infants can sustain massive brain damage, up to the loss of an entire cerebral hemisphere, and still develop into nearly normal adults; any adult who loses half the brain, by contrast, is a goner.

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Liraglutide also lowered the chance of prediabetes developing in adults who started the study with normal blood sugar levels, with 7 percent becoming prediabetic compared with nearly 20 percent of those receiving placebo.

These adults had been deprived of all patterned vision from birth until the cataracts were removed surgically and the eyes fitted with appropriate contact lenses that restored nearly normal visual input.

Health care costs are nearly twice as high for severely obese people as for adults of normal weight.

This view was recently upended by the unexpected finding that tethering of Wingless to the membrane produces adults with nearly normal external morphology, indicating that the spreading of Wingless is largely dispensable for tissue patterning.

So far, it's worked on adult mice, taking them from heart failure to nearly normal.

During puppyhood the dog will eat a lot more and will be highly active; an adult dog has normal food and exercise habits and an older dog can require special diets and doesn't need nearly as much exercise.

The study of nearly 4,400 U.S. adults treated for colon cancer conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that obese patients were one - quarter to one - third more likely to die over the next eight years than their normal - weight counterparts.