Study: Contact in sports may lead to differences in the brains of…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Aug. 22, 2017–People who play contact sports show changes to their brain structure ...
UT Southwestern finds link between backup immune defense, mutation…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – July 27, 2017 – Genes that regulate a cellular recycling system called autophagy are commonly ...
Report of highest incidence of GBS in Africa prompts vaccine study from Wits University
Credit: CDC A global study of GBS, bacteria that cause stillbirth and infant death, shows that Africa has the highest ...
New study links opioid epidemic to childhood emotional abuse
Credit: Brian Jenkins A study by researchers at the University of Vermont has revealed a link between adult opioid misuse ...
UT Southwestern geneticist receives Breakthrough Prize
DALLAS – Nov. 9, 2015 – UT Southwestern Medical Center geneticist Dr. Helen H. Hobbs is the 2016 recipient of ...
Researchers identify genome-modifying enzyme linked to Rett Syndrome
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Program addresses the unique challenges affecting female same-sex couples
Although the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to legalize same-sex marriage was a victory for the gay community, same-sex couples ...
New biomedical engineering grants aim at heart failure and resistant high blood pressure
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease — heart failure after heart ...
Two gifts totaling $150 million add up to bright future for research…
Credit: Children's Mercy / BSA Lifestructures Kansas City, Mo. – Jan. 11, 2018 – Two of Kansas City's iconic families ...
A new role for insulin as a vital factor in maintaining stem cells
Credit: Joshua Brickman New research conducted at the stem cell centre, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen shows that insulin ...
Preliminary stages of dementia reduce human face memorization ability
Credit: Toshikazu Kawagoe A Japanese research group has revealed that elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a particularly ...
Genome architecture’s surprising role in cell fate decisions
Credit: Marco Di Stefano, CNAG-CRG. Scientists have long been reading the code of life – the genome -, as a ...
Feeding strategies in competing hummingbird species observed in a…
Credit: Lucas Lanna Being the vertebrates with the highest metabolic rate thanks to their rapid wing flaps, the hummingbirds have ...
Molecular imaging technique identifies lung nodules for resection in…
Credit: Jarrod Predina, Andrew Newton, Charuhas Deshpande, and Sunil Singhal of The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...
Extinction mystery solved? Evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey’s demise…
Credit: Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins Medicine Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori ...
Cervical lesions change fastest in Hispanics, slowest in blacks–for better and worse
Credit: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association CHICAGO–January 11, 2018–Physicians determining treatment options following abnormal Pap smears now have another ...
UC researchers help map future of precision medicine in…
Credit: Cindy Starr CINCINNATI — Two landmark publications with one or more co-authors from the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience ...
Deeper than obesity: A majority of people is now overfat
Credit: Image re-used with permission from Maffetone, Rivera and Laursen (2016) Front. Public Health, frontiersin.org Just in time for those ...
Can environmental toxins disrupt the biological ‘clock’?
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. – Can environmental toxins disrupt circadian rhythms – the biological "clock" whose disturbance is linked to ...
Debate on duration of colon cancer adjuvant chemotherapy takes centre…
Professor Alberto Sobrero, Head of the Medical Oncology Unit at Ospedale San Martino in Genova, Italy LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 ...
