Ratchet up the pressure: Molecular machine exploits motion in a single direction
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Life is driven by molecular machines. Found in every cell, these tiny motors convert chemical...
Your brain anatomy may play a role in determining your food choices
Our indulgence in delicious but unhealthful food may not necessarily reveal a character flaw. Rather, our ability to exercise self-control...
The psychobiology of online gaming
When researchers looked at expression of a particular gene complex that is activated by chronic stress, they found differences depending...
Fat cells control fat cell growth
Obesity is the plague of our times. Some 80 percent of obese people will develop Type 2 diabetes at some...
Probiotics can protect the skeletons of older women
For the first time in the world, researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have demonstrated that probiotics, dietary supplements...
Garden seed diet for threatened turtle doves has negative impact
Credit: Jenny Dunn Young turtle doves raised on a diet of seeds from non-cultivated arable plants are more likely to...
Scientists print sensors on gummi candy
Credit: N. Adly / TUM Microelectrodes can be used for direct measurement of electrical signals in the brain or heart....
Exposure to fracking chemicals and wastewater spurs fat cell development
Credit: Chris Kassotis, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Exposure to fracking chemicals and wastewater promotes fat cell development, or adipogenesis,...
Novel therapy makes oxidative stress deadly to cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, AU Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 21, 2018) - Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one...
Device may detect heart dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors treated with chemo
Bottom Line: A wireless device designed for detection of heart dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors treated with anthracycline chemotherapy was...
Nightingale Health & UK Biobank announce major initiative to analyze 500,000 blood samples
(Nightingale Health) Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyze...
Human immune ‘trigger’ map paves way for better treatments
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research A discovery about how human cells are 'triggered' to undergo an...
Majority of US adults prescribed epinephrine report not using it in an emergency
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL - (JUNE 21, 2018) - The most effective, life-saving treatment for a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) is...
Fright and flight: Deciding when to escape
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre How does your brain decide what to do in a threatening situation? A new paper published...
Opening up a drug delivery route — Discovery of a new vehicle peptide
Credit: Department of Medicinal Chemistry,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) study identifies promising lead compound for delivery of therapeutically...
Researchers uncover new target to stop cancer growth
Credit: Messenger et al., 2018 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that a protein called Munc13-4 helps cancer...
ASH to collaborate on clinical practice guidelines of von Willebrand Disease
(WASHINGTON - June 21, 2018) The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will collaborate with the International Society on Thrombosis and...
DNA enzyme shuffles cell membranes a thousand times faster than its natural counterpart
Credit: Image courtesy of Christopher Maffeo CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new synthetic enzyme, crafted from DNA rather than protein, flips...
Mindful movement may help lower stress, anxiety
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Taking a walk may be a good opportunity to mentally review your to-do list, but using...
Hitchhiking to kill
How can elimination of therapeutics from the bloodstream or their early enzymatic degradation be avoided in systemic delivery? Chinese scientists...
