Health
American Journal of Roentgenology names Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD next editor in chief
Dr. Rosenkrantz will become just the 13th editor in chief of the 113-year-old 'yellow journal' of radiology in July 2020Credit:...
The origin of satiety: Brain cells that change shape after a meal
Credit: Danaé Nuzzaci / CNRS / CSGA You just finished a good meal and are feeling full? Researchers from the...
Not only what you eat, but how you eat, may affect your microbiome
Credit: Department of Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation, Department of Periodontology,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - The importance of the microorganisms that live...
Researchers link immune system to salt-sensitive hypertension in CKD
Credit: Department of Nephrology,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find that immune system signaling molecule TNF-α may...
Discovery of GABAergic synaptic regulations inside the brain for a new epilepsy treatment
DGIST joint research team identified the roles of 'Somatostatin,' which mediates the functions of GABAergic synaptic proteinCredit: dgist DGIST announced...
SFU team helps discover potential superbug-killing compound
Credit: Simon Fraser University Researchers in Simon Fraser University's Brinkman Laboratory are collaborating with U.S. researchers to test a new...
How millets sustained Mongolia’s empires
Stable isotope analyses reveals dramatic diet diversification at the onset of the steppe's earliest empiresCredit: Alicia Ventresca Miller The historic...
The CNIO discovers that rapamycin has harmful effects when telomeres are short
The finding helps to better understand diseases such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosisCredit: CNIO In the past few decades,...
The microbes in your mouth, and a reminder to floss and go to the dentist
Oral microbiome was subject of crowd-sourced study by CSU, Denver museumCredit: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Most people know...
To predict an epidemic, evolution can’t be ignored
Credit: Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering When scientists try to predict the spread of something across populations--anything from a coronavirus...
Earliest look at newborns’ visual cortex reveals the minds babies start with
Credit: Cory Inman Within hours of birth, a baby's gaze is drawn to faces. Now, brain scans of newborns reveal...
Navigating the potential pitfalls of tracking college athletes
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Fitness trackers like Fitbit and Garmin watches make it easy for anyone to collect data...
Improved work environments enhance patient and nurse satisfaction
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (March 2, 2020) - Healthcare provider burnout is a mounting public health crisis with up to...
Improving shoes, showers, 3D printing: Research launching to the space station
A variety of science investigations, along with supplies and equipment, launch to the International Space Station on the 20th SpaceX...
Implementing microbiome diagnostics in personalized medicine: Rise of pharmacomicrobiomics
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 2, 2020--A new Commentary identifies three actionable challenges for translating...
Surgeons cut opioid prescriptions by 64 percent using a new multipronged program
Physician education, monitoring, and incentives lead to a shift from longer-term to shorter-term prescriptions for surgical patients, according to new...
What can you learn by peering into a fruit fly’s gut? It turns out a lot!
Eavesdropping on 'conversations' between gut stem cells and gut bacteriaCredit: Image is courtesy of Leslie Koyama and Lucy O'Brien. Baltimore,...
5,000-year-old milk proteins point to the importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia
Recent findings push back estimates of dairying in the eastern Steppe by more than 1,700 years, pointing to migration as...
Mapping childhood malnutrition
Credit: Local Burden of Disease Child Growth Failure Collaborators / Nature / CC BY 4.0 The scope of childhood malnutrition...
Scientists show drug may greatly improve cancer immunotherapy success
Credit: University of Southampton A study led by the University of Southampton, funded by Cancer Research UK, has shown a...
