Can a single exercise session benefit your brain?
Credit: Henriette van Praag (photo on left); MarathonFoto (photo on right). Amsterdam, NL, June 12, 2017 -In a new review...
Study sheds new light on inherited testicular cancer risk
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - An analysis of data from five major studies of testicular cancer has identified new genetic...
Insomnia genes found
An international team of researchers has found, for the first time, seven risk genes for insomnia. With this finding the...
OSU researcher part of $14 million NSF program for improved genomic tools
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Coral researcher Virginia Weis of Oregon State University is one of eight researchers selected for a new...
Metastatic breast cancer cells use hedgehog to ‘evilize’ docile neighbors
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in Nature Communications shows that...
Better outcome measures needed for clinical trials for Fragile X Syndrome
A group of researchers from several institutions in the USA, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, reports that its review of 22...
Previously unpublished trial data explain effects and side effects of key MS drug
Alemtuzumab is a highly effective drug for multiple sclerosis, approved in more than 60 countries and used by more than...
Study identifies potential biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease
(Boston)--In one of the largest studies to date to use metabolomics, the study of compounds that are created through various...
Engineering the perfect NHL team: U of T researchers design Las Vegas draft optimizer
Credit: (Credit: Marit Mitchell) Hockey fans around the world are waiting anxiously to find out who will be drafted to...
San Francisco surgeon Dr. Timothy Chuter receives the 2017 Jacobson Innovation Award
CHICAGO : The 2017 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) was presented to Timothy A.M. Chuter,...
Study shows drug lowers levels of biomarker linked to ALS
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery A new study finds that a decades-old drug used to treat malaria lowers levels of...
Promiscuous salamander found to use genes from three partners equally
Credit: Robert Denton, Ohio State University A promiscuous salamander has found a simple genetic formula for success: Mate with multiple...
AI that can shoot down fighter planes helps treat bipolar disorder
Credit: David Fleck/University of Cincinnati The artificial intelligence that can blow human pilots out of the sky in air-to-air combat...
Vegetarian diets almost twice as effective in reducing body weight, study finds
Dieters who go vegetarian not only lose weight more effectively than those on conventional low-calorie diets but also improve their...
Do mast cells contribute to more severe disease in dengue infection?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 12, 2017--Why mosquito-borne dengue virus causes more severe disease in...
The One Health Company teams with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
PHILADELPHIA, June 12, 2017 -- The One Health Company is pleased to announce a new relationship with the Johns Hopkins...
Volcanic ‘plumerang’ could impact human health
Credit: Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Leeds A new study has found a previously undetected potential health risk from the high...
Artificial intelligence to assist in the treatment of heart patients
The University of Tampere and TAYS (Tampere University Hospital) Heart Hospital use artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies developed by VTT Technical...
Uncovering the biology of a painful and disfiguring pediatric disease
Hyaline Fibromatosis Syndrome (HFS) is a rare but severe genetic disease that affects babies, children, and adults. A glassy substance...
BU medical student wins grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(Boston) -- Emily Oot, a third-year graduate student at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a national research...
