Health
Honeycomb maze offers significant improvement over current spatial…
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as...
Salk neurobiologist receives NIH Director’s New Innovator award
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA – (Oct. 5, 2017) Salk Institute Assistant Professor Eiman Azim has been named an NIH...
New treatment for osteoporosis provides better protection against…
Credit: Photo by Elin Lindstrom Claessen A new treatment for osteoporosis provides major improvements in bone density and more effective...
Scientists identify a key barrier to proliferation of…
Credit: John Soares BOSTON – (March 9, 2017) – If you become resistant to insulin, a condition that is a...
Study led by MIT Portugal faculty and alumni finds how to increase the survival time of stem cells
Credit: Sezin Aray A team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, led by Dr....
Nurses’ regular use of disinfectants is associated with…
Milan, Italy: Regular use of disinfectants is linked to a higher risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according...
Einstein researchers share $9 million grant to find anti-aging therapies
Credit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Oct. 16, 2017– BRONX, NY — Scientists now believe that the Fountain of Youth...
NSF-funded research reveals new discoveries on a bug with bifocals
While study has long been conducted on vertebrates with sight-sensory systems involving a lens, retina and nervous system, new research...
Early warning: Current Japanese encephalitis vaccine might not protect
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the leading cause of viral encephalitis (infection of the brain) in Asia. There is no...
Clean-fuel cookstoves may improve cardiovascular health in pregnant women
Credit: ATS Jan. 13, 2017 — Replacing biomass and kerosene cookstoves used throughout the developing world with clean-burning ethanol stoves...
Tooth fillings of the future may incorporate bioactive glass
IMAGE: An electron microscope image of bioactive glass. Credit: Image courtesy of Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – A few...
Biomarkers may help predict outcomes in gastric cancer patients who…
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, January 10, 2018 – Alcohol consumption has been identified as a modifiable risk...
Diabetes causes shift in oral microbiome that fosters periodontitis,…
Credit: University of Pennsylvania A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers has found that the oral microbiome is...
Women recognize abuse in ‘Fifty Shades’ film
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Young adult women who watched "Fifty Shades of Grey" found the relationship between the characters Christian...
In Huntington’s disease, traffic jams in the cell’s control center kill brain cells
Credit: Credit: Courtesy of Cell Press, Neuron April 5, 2017 Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns...
Improving symptom tracking in multiple sclerosis
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, MASS. – With a recent two-year, $833,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, kinesiology professor...
Stress-mitigation interventions for parents did not lessen symptoms…
Credit: Children's National Health System SAN FRANCISCO – The patient-centered study's premise was straightforward: Since there is a definite link...
Gene amplification — the fast track to infection
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden are first to discover that bacteria can multiply disease-inducing genes which are needed to...
2.4 percent faster swimming with the dolphin kick
Professor Hideki Takagi, at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Tsukuba and his colleagues, through...
Interleukin-1α causes people to choke on air
Credit: Osaka University Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC) at Osaka University, Japan have pinpointed a specific molecular...
