"We saw more than fivefold artery growth compared with the controls, " which included one group of animals that only got VEGF and another that got the nanofibers without the VEGF.

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After four weeks, significant changes were recorded in the hippocampus of the enriched-environment mice compared with controls.

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Survival in the first group was significantly reduced compared with controls.

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Hancock Prospecting may be minuscule compared with the multinationals, but its value is enormous and Rinehart controls all its shares.

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They found that aspirin reduced the risk of a cancer death by 15% compared with controls.

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But at 24 months, the December-born California boys had unexpectedly high cognitive scores compared with controls.

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They found that, compared with non-dyslexic controls, their subjects showed low activity in a part of the brain called Brodmann's Area 37.

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That compared with weight gain of 36 milligrams a day in mice transplanted through the hepatic vein and 58 milligrams in controls.

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The initial studies showing that secondhand smoke is dangerous compared nonsmoking spouses of smokers with age-matched nonsmoking controls who were married to nonsmokers.

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