Childhood adversity linked to early puberty, premature brain development, & mental illness
Penn study details effects of poverty and trauma on youth brain and behavior PHILADELPHIA--Growing up in poverty and experiencing traumatic ...
Month: May 2019
Hyphens in paper titles harm citation counts and journal impact factors
Warning to academics: Hyphens in paper titles harm citation counts and journal impact factorsCredit: @The University of Hong Kong According ...
New research shows how habitat loss can destabilise ecosystems
Whole plant and animal communities can be put at risk by different types of habitat lossCredit: Louis Haynes An international ...
How the enzyme lipoxygenase drives heart failure after heart attacks
Heart failure after a heart attack is a global epidemic, with 50 percent of patients dying within five years.Credit: UAB ...
The body responds to variations in light between the day and night independently of the brain
Credit: IRB Barcelona During the day, we experience a series of physical, mental and behavioural changes know as circadian rhythms. ...
Hard food, strong jaw: Jawbone structure responds to forceful chewing
Credit: Department of Cell Signaling,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU), the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, ...
In hot pursuit of dinosaurs: Tracking extinct species on ancient Earth via biogeography
Credit: Caitlin Devor, The University of Tokyo, CC-BY One researcher at the University of Tokyo is in hot pursuit of ...
Searching for the origins of the depressive symptoms in Huntington’s disease
Cdk5 Kinase: An essential proteinCredit: Verónica Brito (University of Barcelona-UBNeuro) About 40% of the affected patients with Huntington's disease -a ...
The magic behind the medals
How the most successful winter Olympian ever used high intensity training sessions to win goldCredit: Photo: Nancy Bazilchuk/NTNU When the ...
Guidelines for managing anaphylaxis in children need an update
New study shows that pre-hospital treatment with epinephrine has the highest protective effect against uncontrolled allergic reactionCredit: McGill University Health ...
Racism has a toxic effect
A USC Dornsife-led study may explain how racial discrimination raises the risks of disease among African Americans A new study ...
Stanford engineers develop a more stable, efficient prosthetic foot
Taking on a hiking trail or a cobblestone street with a prosthetic leg is a risky proposition - it's possible, ...
Scientists develop gel-based delivery system for stem cell-derived factors
New approach could improve kidney regeneration In ongoing research to find a treatment for acute kidney injury, Wake Forest Institute ...
Early genome catastrophes can cause non-smoking lung cancer
Some teenagers harbor catastrophic changes to their genomes that can lead to lung cancer later on in life, even if ...
14 new Collaborative Research Centres
Topics range from the gut-liver axis and cultures of vigilance to mechanical joinability in adaptable process chains / €164 million ...
New research paves the way for safer leukemia treatments
An international team of researchers has discovered a new and much safer way to treat a type of leukaemia that ...
Expert in dynamical systems elected a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
NYU Tandon's Maurizio Porfiri recognized for wide-ranging research spanning biomimetic robotics, collective behavior, multiphysics modeling, and complex systemsCredit: NYU Tandon ...
Pre-surgical immunotherapy shows promise in trial for patients with early stage lung cancer
Interim results of a large, multicenter trial to be presented at ASCO Annual Meeting For patients with operable non-small cell ...
DNA origami to scale-up molecular motors
Credit: Matsuda K. et al., Nano Letters, April 30, 2019 Joint press release by Hokkaido University, Kansai University, and Tokyo ...
A common skin bacterium put children with severe eczema at higher risk of food allergy
In a new study published today in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, scientists from King's College London have ...