Science
Researchers reveal how neurodegenerative diseases spread through the brain
Synapses, the place where brain cells contact one another, play a pivotal role in the transmission of toxic proteins. This...
Researchers discover new regulator in glucose metabolism
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A key genetic switch in the liver regulates glucose metabolism...
Healthy living equals better brain function
It should be obvious that those with greater self-control live a healthier lifestyle. After all, it takes self-control to exercise...
Making artificial ‘cells’ move like real cells (video)
Artificial "cells" could someday zoom around in the body and deliver medicines to specific locations, act as in-tissue diagnosticians and...
Experimental drug delivers one-two punch to prostate cancer cells
Credit: Venu Raman An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to...
Who has the better memory — men or women?
CLEVELAND, Ohio (November 9, 2016)--In the battle of the sexes, women have long claimed that they can remember things better...
More women sexually active into old age
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Nov. 9, 2016)--Although many of us don't want to think about grandma still "getting it on," multiple studies...
First month after infection is key time to tackle drug-related HIV spread
Data from post-Soviet AIDS epidemic shows first month after infection is key point to tackle drug-related HIV spread Data from...
Marker for aggressive prostate cancer doubles up as a drug target
RESEARCHERS have discovered that a marker found on aggressive prostate cancer cells could also be used as a way to...
Researcher finds key to drug resistant bowel cancer
BLOCKING a molecule could bypass bowel cancer's defence against the drug cetuximab, according to new research* presented at the National...
Female chimpanzees employ babysitters to wean young faster
Credit: Iulia Badescu TORONTO, ON - A babysitter can make a big difference in a parent's life. For wild chimps...
NYU research examines country and health system factors on RN and MD personnel production
A key component to achieving good patient outcomes in the healthcare world is having the right number and type of...
Dr. Barbara Stonestreet receives additional funding to evaluate treatment strategies for perinatal brain injury
Barbara Stonestreet, MD, a neonatal-perinatal specialist at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, and...
Early exposure to excess hormone causes genital defects in females
University of Florida researchers have identified cells targeted by a male hormone and found that an excess of that hormone...
UMass Amherst Environmental Health researcher honored for ‘irritating’ science
Credit: courtesy Pablo Robles, Media Compass Photography AMHERST, Mass. - The Cornell Douglas Foundation, an environmental health and justice advocacy...
NCI grant funds SMU research into cancer-causing viruses that hide from the immune system
Credit: (SMU Harrod lab) SMU virologist and cancer researcher Robert L. Harrod has been awarded a $436,500 grant from the...
UTHealth receives NIH grant to develop individualized therapies for cocaine addiction
HOUSTON - (Nov. 7, 2016) - Identifying more effective treatment strategies tailored to individual responses for patients overcoming addiction to...
Quality of life in late life can be good
An analysis of patients' physical, functional, emotional and social quality of life trajectories over the last 18 months of life...
Tumors reprogram the liver, causing wasting and short-circuiting body’s immune response
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - One of the worst cruelties of lethal cancer is the phenomenon called wasting, or in...
Weight loss condition provides insight into failure of cancer immunotherapies
A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy - a new...