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HIIT alters brain glucose metabolism in insulin resistant people
Credit: University of Turku Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, studied how high-intensity interval training (HIIT) alters the brain's...
Vascular risk factors and Alzheimer’s disease: A new therapeutic…
Credit: Neurological Clinic of the University Hospital Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona and Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy Ancona, Italy, August...
Studies link healthy brain aging to omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in…
Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two new studies link patterns of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the blood...
Virginia Tech researchers trace the potato’s origins, learn about its untapped potential
Credit: Virginia Tech The comfort food we know and love today as the potato was domesticated between 8,000 and 10,000...
New computational method reveals chemoresistance drug targets
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – In cancer, one of the most important features is the methylation of deoxycytosine to form...
New book on The Biology of the TGF-β Family from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Cover art created by Masato Morikawa, The University of Tokyo. Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
Arts and humanities in medical school promote empathy and inoculate against burnout
Credit: Tulane Health System (PHILADELPHIA and NEW ORLEANS) – Medical students who spend more time engaging in the arts may...
NUS researchers develop wireless light switch for targeted cancer therapy
Credit: National University of Singapore A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a way...
New innovations to combat resistant infections
Two scientists at the University of Bristol have been awarded prestigious research grants to develop novel technologies that will help...
How text messaging could help tackle high blood pressure in at-risk…
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Most primary care doctors will measure a patient's blood pressure during an appointment....
Muscles can ‘ask’ for the energy they need
Credit: Texas A&M Health Science Center Muscles require energy to perform all of the movements that we do in a...
Peptide complex formed in the brain is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Vladimir Polshakov. Members of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine at the Lomonosov Moscow State University have determined the structure...
Rice U. paper: End ‘stem cell tourism’
HOUSTON – (Nov. 9, 2015) – The continued marketing and use of experimental stem cell-based interventions inside and outside the...
Researchers find new way to attack gastro bug
Credit: Griffith University A team at Griffith's Institute for Glycomics identified a unique sensory structure that is able to bind...
Auto pioneer’s family turns tragedy into discovery with $5 million commitment to…
Credit: University of Michiga ANN ARBOR, MI – Fifty years ago this spring, entrepreneur Heinz Prechter moved his company to...
WSU looks for practices to thwart antimicrobial resistance
Credit: Washington State University The death last year of a woman in Reno, Nev., from an infection resistant to every...
Penn gastroenterologists receive funding to continue research…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – A research group in the division of Gastroenterology in the Perelman School of Medicine at...
TSRI scientists stabilize HIV structure, design potential AIDS vaccine candidates
LA JOLLA, CA – June 28, 2016 – Want to catch a criminal? Show a mugshot on the news. Want...
Nation’s largest state effort to track concussions in youth athletes under way in Texas
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – December 12, 2016 – The nation's largest statewide effort to track concussions among youth athletes...
New TSRI study: Flipping molecular ‘switch’ may reduce…
IMAGE: Loren 'Larry' Parsons, senior author of the new study, is a professor at The Scripps Research Institute. Credit: Photo...
