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Credit: Evgenia Ntini A Danish-German research team has shown that not only the where and when of long non-coding RNA ...

Scientists unearth vital link between fat, immunity and heat regulation

Credit: Lydia Lynch, Trinity College Dublin Scientists have just made a surprising discovery involving fat and special immune cells that ...

Stem cells from adults function just as well as those from embryos

Donor age does not appear to influence the functionality of stem cells derived from adult body tissues, concludes a new ...

Flavins keep a handy helper in their pocket

Credit: Source: Robin Teufel, Raspudin Saleem-Batcha In human cells, vitamins often serve as the precursors of "cofactors" - non-proteins which ...

Artificial leaf as mini-factory for medicine

Credit: Bart van Overbeeke Using sunlight for sustainable and cheap production of, for example, medicines. The 'mini-factory' in the form ...

$11.2 million federal grant to support microorganism and disease research

Credit: UofL It is well-established that the community of organisms inside our bodies perform vital roles in digestion, production of ...

Soccer heading — not collisions — cognitively impairs players

April 24, 2018--(BRONX, NY)--Worse cognitive function in soccer players stems mainly from frequent ball heading rather than unintentional head impacts ...

Early treatment for leg ulcers gets patients back on their feet

Treating leg ulcers within two weeks by closing faulty veins improves healing by 12 per cent compared to standard treatment, ...

Researchers use smart phone to make a faster infection detector

Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a phone ...

Availability of orphan medicines varies between European countries

Credit: UEF / Raija Törrönen There are differences in the availability of orphan medicines between different European countries, a new ...

State-of-the-art reviews in osteoimmunology

Osteoimmunology, which deals with the crosstalk and shared mechanisms of the skeletal and immune systems, provides important insights into both ...

ATS Foundation and ResMed announce two-year research grant in sleep-disordered breathing

(New York, NY) - April 24, 2018 - The ATS Foundation is pleased to announce its new ATS Foundation/ResMed Research ...

Managing chronic pain with light

Credit: Dhandapani et al., Nature Communications. Imagine that the movement of a single hair on your arm causes severe pain. ...

Removing the enablers: Reducing number of tumor-supporting cells to fight neuroblastoma

Credit: Valeria Solari, MD, MRCS; Children's Hospital Los Angeles Investigators at the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at ...

Fifth Annual Science Day at NIH

In recognition of National Minority Health Month in April, the National Institutes of Health is hosting its fifth annual Science ...

Doctors prescribe opioids at high rates to those at increased overdose risk

The number of first-time prescriptions for opioid drugs has not risen since about 2010, according to UCLA researchers. However, patients ...

Prolonged acetaminophen use during pregnancy linked to increased ASD and ADHD risk

A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on the possible relationship between prolonged use of acetaminophen ...

Sense of control and meaning helps protect women from anxiety

People who feel in control of their lives and who find purpose and meaning in life are less likely to ...

Upswings in older-age cognitive ability may not be universal

A growing body of evidence indicates that rates of dementia may be declining, in part because older adults' cognitive abilities, ...

Glowing contact lens could prevent a leading cause of blindness