The origin of off-taste in onions
Chopping onions is usually associated with watery and stinging eyes. But after the onions are diced and the tears are ...
Month: August 2018
Light-emitting nanoparticles could provide a safer way to image living cells
Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) A research team has demonstrated how light-emitting nanoparticles, developed at the U.S. Department ...
Optimizing airport flight patterns take a toll on human health
August 15, 2018 - Health costs associated with noise from changing flight patterns over populated urban landscapes far outweigh the ...
Mizzou program significantly reduces delay in autism diagnosis
Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Katie New first suspected her son had autism, she had to wait ...
Better statistical methods to understand gene interactions leading to cancer development
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Hui-Yi Lin, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at ...
UMN Medical School research shows it’s possible to reverse damage caused by aging cells
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- August 15, 2018 - What's the secret to aging well? University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have answered ...
BioOne Complete welcomes back popular titles for 2019
WASHINGTON, DC - August 15, 2018 : BioOne (about.BioOne.org) proudly announces the return of three popular journals and the addition ...
A review of prevalent methods for automatic skin lesion diagnosis
The three prevalent skin cancers, according to the literature are melanoma, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Melanoma is ...
Male tobacco smokers have brain-wide reduction of CB1 receptors
Philadelphia, August 15, 2018 Chronic, frequent tobacco smokers have a decreased number of cannabinoid CB1 receptors, the "pot receptor", when ...
Compound discovered that targets cancer cells lacking the protective p53 ‘guardian gene’
A NEW chemical compound with the potential to destroy hard-to-treat cancer cells has been developed and tested by scientists at ...
A molecular switch may serve as new target point for cancer and diabetes therapies
Credit: Thomas Splettstoesser If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A mechanism recently ...
Chips, light and coding moves the front line in beating bacteria
Credit: OIST The never-ending fight against bacteria has taken a turn in humanity's favor with the announcement of a tool ...
Parental life span predicts daughters living to 90 without chronic disease or disability
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that women whose mothers lived to at least ...
Emergency hospital visits more common among most deprived bowel cancer patients
Bowel cancer patients living in the most deprived areas have up to 13% higher proportions of emergency hospital admissions before ...
Restoring blood flow may be best option to save your life and limb
DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2018 -- Treatments that restore blood flow to the lower limbs of people with a serious circulation ...
Eating breakfast burns more carbs during exercise and accelerates metabolism for next meal
Credit: Javier Gonzalez Eating breakfast before exercise may "prime" the body to burn carbohydrates during exercise and more rapidly digest ...
Baycrest co-created Virtual Brain joins flagship neuroscience initiative in Europe
Credit: Michael Burgstahler, Two Tribes The Virtual Brain (TVB), an international brain-mapping platform co-developed by Baycrest researchers, has become part ...
Common Wifi can detect weapons, bombs and chemicals in bags
Credit: Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab led by Professor Yingying Chen Ordinary WiFi can easily detect weapons, bombs ...
How ugly marital spats might open the door to disease
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center COLUMBUS, Ohio - Married people who fight nastily are more likely to ...
Researchers assemble ‘library of sugars’
Most of us tend to think of sugar as a temptation that threatens our health. The reality is, however, that ...
