Year: 2024

The link between severe headache disorders headaches and the body’s circadian clock in pain timing and thresholds will be studied ...

ALS: Newly discovered subtypes and sex differences create new approaches for drugs

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS for short, is a mysterious neurodegenerative disease that is almost always fatal. A consortium of researchers ...

Giving pre-med students hands-on clinical training

A group of pre-medical students received valuable hands-on clinical training during a workshop in the new Smart Hospital at The University ...

Study identifies first drug therapy for sleep apnea

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and international collaborators have led a worldwide, advanced study demonstrating ...

Cooling ‘blood oranges’ could make them even healthier – a bonus for consumers

An orange teeming with antioxidants and other health benefits may be a shot in the arm for consumers and citrus ...

Salk scientist Jesse Dixon named 2024 Pew Biomedical Scholar

LA JOLLA (June 18, 2024)—Salk Institute Assistant Professor Jesse Dixon has been named a 2024 Pew Biomedical Scholar by The ...

LMU researchers film energy materials as they form

Shooting a movie in the lab requires special equipment. Especially when the actors are molecules – invisible to the naked ...

Study forecasts 110,000 premature deaths by 2050 due to PM2.5 and aging

A new study from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) indicates that fine particulate matter, which is less ...

IISc physicists find a new way to represent ‘pi’

While investigating how string theory can be used to explain certain physical phenomena, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science ...

Insilico Medicine nominates the winner of documentary hackathon to raise awareness of AI drug discovery through scientific storytelling

After receiving more than 90 submissions from 14 countries with a wide range of perspectives and reviewing them in parallel ...

Cosmic blast hunter SVOM to launch with optimal optics from Leicester

A satellite telescope designed to rapidly hunt down the universe’s biggest explosions will launch later this week, carrying technology developed ...

New study reveals promising drug target for treating osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a skeletal condition that leads to the weakening of bones, making them porous, fragile, and prone to breakage. ...

Large wildfires create weather that favors more fire

A new UC Riverside study shows soot from large wildfires in California traps sunlight, making days warmer and drier than ...

Unveiling Telo-seq: A breakthrough in telomere research on aging and cancer

Credit: Salk Institute Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-48917-7 Method of Research Experimental study Article Title High resolution long-read telomere sequencing ...

Restored rat-free islands could support hundreds of thousands more breeding seabirds

Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and ...

Fishy parenting? Punishing offspring encourages cooperation

Osaka, Japan — While there is an increasing consensus among humans that corporal discipline of children does more harm than good, ...

The declining diet of Japan’s youth

Researchers from the University of Tokyo performed the first study to quantify highly processed food consumption and to investigate its ...

New “smart bandages” hold potential for revolutionizing the treatment of chronic wounds

Chronic wounds, which include diabetic ulcers, surgical wounds, pressure injuries, and other problems, are deadlier than many people realize. Patients ...

American diets have a long way to go to achieve health equity

June 17, 2024

Poor diet continues to take a toll on American adults. It’s a major risk factor for obesity, type 2 diabetes, ...

To get images of this fast-acting brain protein, scientists had to slow it down