Extreme swings in blood pressure are just as deadly as having consistently high blood pressure
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute. Extreme ups and downs in systolic blood pressure may be just as deadly as...
Bee antennae offer links between the evolution of social behavior and…
Credit: Sam Droege, U.S. Geological Survey As bees' social behavior evolved, their complex chemical communication systems evolved in concert, according...
‘Origami’ rapid malaria test receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant
Credit: Lauren Gibson / Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University headed by Stevenson Professor...
Research into basic workings of immune system points to way of improving therapies for cancer
Credit: Sam Ogden BOSTON – In people with chronic infections or cancer, disease-fighting T cells tend to behave like an...
Social interaction affects cancer patients’ response to…
Credit: Jeff Leinert, NHGRI How well cancer patients fared after chemotherapy was affected by their social interaction with other patients...
TSRI scientists solve 3-D structure of protein that guides the immune system
IMAGE: A new study from The Scripps Research Institute and Duke University Medical Center reveals the three-dimensional structure of a...
Common brain changes found in children with autism, ADHD and OCD
TORONTO, July 27, 2016 – A team of Toronto scientists has found similarities in brain impairments in children with autism...
New study supports link between Omega-3 supplementation and reduction in depression
According to the World Health Organization, depression is a major cause of disease burden worldwide, affecting an estimated 350 million...
Increased education could help adolescents limit caffeine consumption
PHILADELPHIA, PA, March 8, 2016 – Caffeine is the most available and widely used psychoactive substance in the world and...
CTCA at Western Regional Medical Center advances combination…
IMAGE: This is Dr. Glen Weiss, Director of Clinical Research and Medical Oncologist, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at...
Can a brain scan early in stress predict eventual memory loss?
"My workload has shot up after my last promotion, I know that I'm stressed out," says a management executive from...
Russian and US scientists collaborate to map migration paths of Arctic breeding birds
Credit: Zak Pohlen (WCS) Conservation of intertidal habitat– 65 percent of which has been lost over the last 50 years–...
Extreme temperatures threaten desert songbirds with death by…
Credit: Tom Kennedy, UNM According to NASA, 2016 was the hottest year on historical record. Globally, the increase amounted to...
York chemists lead breakthrough in carbon capture
Starbons, made from waste biomass including food peelings and seaweed, were discovered and first reported 10 years ago by the...
A trend reversal in childhood obesity — a decline in the BMI in 8-year-old boys
Credit: Sahlgrenska Academy/University of Gothenburg After decades of increasing childhood obesity, things are now going in the opposite direction. A...
New golden frog species discovered in Colombia
Credit: Credit: Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher This news release is available in Spanish. A team of scientists including a Smithsonian Tropical Research...
New study illuminates key aspects of how we fall asleep and wake up
Falling asleep and waking up are key transitions in everyone's day. Millions of people have trouble with these transitions –...
New nanoscopic tools to study ligand-binding of receptors and…
This news release is available in German. Signalling processes in organisms are governed by specific extracellular and intracellular interactions and...
X-raying of fossil beetles
This news release is available in German. The layman considers fossil beetles just stones. Even experts were able to describe...
A new species of gecko with massive scales and tear-away skin
Credit: F. Glaw Many lizards can drop their tails when grabbed, but one group of geckos has gone to particularly...
