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A vital pause: Neurons in the brain’s striatum may help regulate response to unexpected stimuli
Credit: OIST Changing our behavior based on unexpected cues from our environment is an essential part of survival. The ability...
Simple walking test helps predict risk for cognitive issues after heart surgery
Chicago, May 10, 2018 - The distance a patient can walk in 6-minutes before a heart operation may be a...
Study finds prenatal marijuana use can affect infant size, behavior
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Smoking during pregnancy has well-documented negative effects on birth weight in infants and is linked to several...
Pterocarpanquinones and carbapterocarpans with anti-tumor activity against MDR leukemias
Credit: Dr. Vivian M Rumjanek et al., Bentham Science Publishers Careful thinking must be put since the very first days...
Cost savings from integrative medicine via pain reduction in hospitalized patients
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 10, 2018-- Researchers at Allina Health (Minneapolis, MN) conducted a...
Tau-tolly microtubular!
Credit: Berkeley Lab Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have combined cutting-edge...
Boosting the effects of vitamin D to tackle diabetes
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(May 10, 2018) More than 27 million people in the United States are living with type...
UMass Amherst chemists develop molecular switch for on-demand cargo release
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In an unexpected finding, chemist Sankaran "Thai" Thayumanavan and colleagues at the University of...
Depleted metabolic enzymes promote tumor growth in kidney cancer
Credit: Celeste Simon, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Cell Press PHILADELPHIA - Kidney cancer, one of the ten...
Divide and conquer: Israeli researchers find key to creating better medicines with fewer side effects
Credit: Palitel and Naaman. Today, a new study published in Science by Professors Yossi Paltiel of the Hebrew University of...
Receptor related to neurotransmitter serotonin to boost memory formation
New York, NY (May 10, 2018)--In a breakthrough that could one day help individuals with cognitive impairment, researchers at Columbia...
Levitation yields better neutron-lifetime measurement
Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 10, 2018--Being repulsive can have its advantages. In the case of an experiment at...
2018 ICIS-BioLegend William E. Paul Award for Excellence in Cytokine Research
Credit: International Cytokine & Interferon Society Giorgio Trinchieri, MD, NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research is the recipient...
Study may help explain racial disparities in prostate cancer
New research published in Molecular Oncology may help explain why African American men are at a higher risk of being...
Adversity early in life linked with more physical pain in adulthood
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Experiencing trauma as a child may influence how much pain an individual feels in adulthood, according...
Spectrum Health’s Tina Freese Decker named one of top 25 COOs in Healthcare 2018
Credit: Courtesy of Spectrum Health GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The editors of Modern Healthcare have named Tina Freese Decker, Spectrum...
Heart failure: The Alzheimer’s disease of the heart?
Credit: Courtesy of Circulation Research, May 11, 2018 Similar to how protein clumps build up in the brain in people...
Mass vaccinations will not prevent Ebolavirus outbreaks, new research shows
Prophylactic mass vaccination programmes are not a realistic option in the battle to prevent new Ebolavirus outbreaks, a University of...
New study demonstrates toll of anxiety on bone health
CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 9, 2018)--Anxiety has already been shown to take its toll on the human body in many ways,...
Neuroinflammation seen in spinal cord, nerve roots of patients with chronic sciatica
A study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found, for the first time in humans, that patients with chronic...
