Muscle ‘switch’ may control the benefits of exercise
Credit: Joslin Diabetes Center Communications Office BOSTON - (August 2, 2018) - Some people respond well to both aerobic exercise...
Study suggests obesity may also impact flu transmission, not just severity of illness
Obesity increases a person's risk for severe complications from influenza, including hospitalization and even death. It may also play a...
Maternal dengue immunity protects against fetal damage in mice following Zika infection
Credit: CC LA JOLLA, CA--Dengue and Zika viruses are closely related and carried by mosquitos. In infested subtropical and tropical...
Obesity extends duration of influenza a virus shedding
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Obesity, which increases influenza disease severity, also extends by about 1.5 days how long influenza A virus...
Fish reproduction: Two times a lady
Credit: Photo taken by Takafumi Fujimoto A DNA probing technique clarifies the mechanism behind clonal reproduction of female dojo loach...
UMN Medical School researchers study how cues drive our behavior
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- August 02, 2018 - Do dopamine neurons have a role in causing cues in our environment to acquire...
LSU health research discovers new link between hypoxia and blood clot risk
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Rinku Majumder, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at...
Scientists develop novel drug that could potentially treat liver cancer more effectively
Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by scientists from the Cancer Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at...
Scientists present concept for the elimination of traffic jams
In the current issue of Nature, the economists Peter Cramton, Axel Ockenfels (both University of Cologne) and R. Richard Geddes...
Broadband internet causes sleep deprivation, a new study finds
Credit: Paolo Tonato About 200,000 working days are lost in Germany every year due to insufficient sleep, with an economic...
Psychologists find that acting is the key to remembering tasks
Credit: University of Chichester Research explores prospective memory which reminds you to take action in the future Poor prospective memory...
Mapping blue carbon in mangroves worldwide
Credit: MIke Polito, LSU BATON ROUGE - Mangroves are tropical forests that thrive in salt water and are found in...
Study elucidates epigenetic mechanisms behind autoimmune diseases
Credit: Karina F. Bombonato-Prado (FORP-USP) A group of researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil used a...
Routine screening of relatives of aortic disease patients could save lives
Routine screening and genetic testing of the relatives of patients suffering from aortic diseases could save lives, new research has...
How do you assess pain in children who can’t express themselves? New research identifies priorities in identifying pain in nonverbal children with medical complexity
August 2, 2018 - Pain is a frequent problem for children with complex medical conditions -but many of them are...
MGH team defines the mechanisms of action of key genetic abnormality in Ewing sarcoma
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has used epigenome editing tools to investigate how the genetic abnormality that drives...
Newly characterized molecule offers possibilities for novel Alzheimer’s treatments
Alzheimer's disease is an increasingly prevalent, neurodegenerative condition that erodes memory and other cognitive functions. Treatments for this complex disease...
Aortic atherosclerotic plaque inflammation may contribute to the progression of fatty liver disease to liver fibrosis
(Boston)--The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL)...
Metabolomics applications for precision nutrition, formula, & neurodegenerative disorders
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 2, 2018--Metabolomics is the latest omics systems science technology with...
Machine learning links dimensions of mental illness to abnormalities of brain networks
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--A new study using machine learning has identified brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards...
