Family dinners improve teens’ eating habits no matter how well family functions, study finds
Credit: (University of Guelph) A new University of Guelph study has revealed teenagers and young adults who sit down for ...
Month: November 2018
Neurons process information differently depending on their location
Credit: Fletcher/Queensland Brain Institute Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered that the thickness of the brain's outer layer ...
Airline food study 2018
NEW YORK, NY (November 20, 2018) There will be more than 30.5 million passengers traveling during the 12-day Thanksgiving season ...
Designing a safer building block for drug discovery by harnessing visible light
Credit: The Stephenson Lab ANN ARBOR--When you reach for a bottle of acetaminophen, you may be looking for relief from ...
Insilico to present its latest research in AI Aging Diagnostics at the A!One Conference
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing ...
Rare Cancers Asia: Building bridges to improve patient care
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 21 November 2018 - Rare cancers inherently make it difficult to collect data, build clinical expertise and treat affected ...
Environmental exposures early in life modify immune responses
Credit: UEF / Varpu Heiskanen The prevalence of allergic diseases has increased significantly over the last decades, creating substantial financial ...
DNA Origami full of potent anticancer agents
One of the most successful techniques to combat multidrug resistance in cancer cells is the downregulation of those genes responsible ...
Mobile health has power to transform HIV/AIDS nursing
The abundance of personal smartphones in southern African countries got University of Washington professor Sarah Gimbel thinking: What if these ...
Keep slapping on that sunscreen and ignore toxic claims
It's safe to slap on the sunscreen this summer - in repeated doses - despite what you have read about ...
UTHealth, Children’s Museum are getting children excited about science
Credit: PHOTO CREDIT: Rob Cahill, UTHealth It is never too early to spark a child's interest in science and The ...
How low can we go? Nanopore detection of single flu viruses to control outbreaks
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Influenza is a highly contagious respiratory disease of global importance, which causes millions of ...
Alaska Airlines: the healthiest airline in the sky
NEW YORK, NY (November 20, 2018) There will be more than 30.5 million passengers traveling during the 12-day Thanksgiving season ...
Discovery of a new gene could shed light on chemical exposure effects in humans
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The discovery of a new gene in zebrafish could lead to a better understanding of how exposure ...
Scientists shed new light on infection process of gastrointestinal pathogen C. difficile
Scientists from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research identified the mechanisms by which the bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile kills intestinal ...
Obesity strongly associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in never-smokers
Toronto, ON - "Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is much more common among never smoking older women who are morbidly ...
Smoke-free policies associated with lower blood pressure
DALLAS, Nov. 21, 2018 -- Smoke-free policies have been associated with lower systolic (top number) blood pressure readings among non-smokers, ...
Music may improve mood in adults with Dementia
Credit: Geriatrics & Gerontology International In a Geriatrics & Gerontology International study of 51 individuals living with dementia who attended ...
Sleep length may affect risk of falls and fractures
Compared with women in a recent study who slept seven to eight hours each night, women who slept for ?5 ...
Cardiovascular disease may increase risk of rapid functional decline in older adult
In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study of adults aged 65 and older who were functionally independent, individuals ...
