Health
Physical exercise improves the life quality of those living in care homes for the elderly
Credit: Egoi Markaida. UPV/EHU If the number of people over 65 currently accounts for 22% of the total population in...
Normalization of ‘plus-size’ risks hidden danger of obesity, study finds
New research warns that the normalisation of 'plus-size' body shapes may be leading to an increasing number of people underestimating...
Army study quantifies changes in stress after meditation
Credit: US Army photo by Dr. Valerie Rice ADELPHI, MD. - For a thousand years, people have reported feeling better...
Scientists discover how brain signals travel to drive language performance
Credit: Drexel University Effective verbal communication depends on one's ability to retrieve and select the appropriate words to convey an...
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...
Cells stop dividing when this gene kicks into high gear, study finds
Credit: Darleny Lizardo/Alan Siegel/University at Buffalo North Campus Confocal Imaging Facility BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Scientists seeking to unlock the secrets...
Princeton chemists teach an enzyme a new trick, with potential for building new molecules
Credit: C. Todd Reichart, Department of Chemistry Princeton chemists have found a way to make a naturally occurring enzyme take...
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...
Turning a phage
Credit: UC San Diego Health With microbial resistance to antibiotics growing into a major global health crisis, researchers at University...
Our intestinal microbiome influences metabolism — through the immune system
Credit: Adam Wong, PhD. Modified from Disease Models & Mechanisms. doi: 10.1242/dmm.023408. Research tells us that the commensal or "good"...
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...
Prellis Biologics achieves milestone in 3D printing of human tissue with capillaries
Credit: Prellis Biologics San Francisco, CA--June 21, 2018--Prellis Biologics, a San Francisco-based 3D tissue printing company, announced that it has...
Warren Alpert Foundation honors pioneering discoveries in cystic fibrosis
The 2018 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for transformative discoveries in the fields of genetics,...
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...
Scientists discover new gene expression mechanism with possible role in human disease
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care CHAPEL HILL, NC - When cells grow and divide to ensure a biological function...
Penn geneticist receives 2018 Gotto Prize
PHILADELPHIA--Daniel J. Rader, MD, chair of the department of Genetics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
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...
Dying cancer cells make remaining glioblastoma cells more aggressive and therapy-resistant
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A surprising form of cell-to-cell communication in glioblastoma promotes global changes in recipient cells, including...
Ketamine acts fast to treat depression and its effects last — but how?
In contrast to most antidepressant medications, which can take several weeks to reduce depressive symptoms, ketamine -- a commonly used...
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...
