New study raises hopes of eradication of malaria
After major global successes in the battle against malaria, the positive trend stalled around 2015 - apart from in Zanzibar in East Africa, where only...
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Specialist-led bereavement service may help curb legal action after hospital deaths
Relevant specialist, matron, and quality and safety lead involvement key to approach, say study authors Hospital bereavement services that are led by senior doctors and...
Body size may influence women's lifespan more than it does men's
And 60 minutes of daily physical activity was associated with the best chance of reaching 90 for women Body size-height and weight- may influence women's...
Leaving 2-hour gap between dinner and bedtime may not affect blood glucose
Practice thought to be good for health and to lower risk of lifestyle diseases Leaving a two-hour gap between the last meal of the day...
Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree
Ancient eel-like creature answers questions about when these bizarre fish branched off the evolutionary tree from other vertebratesCredit: Tetsuto Miyashita, University of Chicago. Paleontologists at...
Leaf age determines the division of labor in plant stress responses
Credit: Kenichi Tsuda Unlike animals, plants cannot move freely to escape from life-threatening conditions. This constraint means that they require strategies to protect themselves against...
Researchers for the first time identify neurons in the human visual cortex that respond to faces
Credit: Dr. Vadim Axelrod Imagine a world where everyone has the same face. That would be a very different world than the one we know....
How our brains distinguish between self-touch and touch by others
Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Our brains seem to reduce sensory perception from an area of our skin when we touch it ourselves, according to a...
Youthful cognitive ability strongly predicts mental capacity later in life
Education, job complexity and intellectual activities play only minor roles Early adult general cognitive ability (GCA) -- the diverse set of skills involved in thinking,...
Mice pass on brain benefits of enriched upbringing to offspring
Life experience may be transmitted from one generation to the next through changes in gene expression, parental caretakingCredit: Kalogeraki, Yusifov, and Löwel, eNeuro (2019) Mice...
Implantable device curbs seizures and improves cognition in epileptic rats
Approach reduces seizures by 93 percent in three monthsCredit: Giovanna Paolone A protein-secreting device implanted into the hippocampus of epileptic rats reduces seizures by 93...
How concussions may lead to epilepsy
New animal model could improve understanding of post-traumatic epilepsyCredit: Alexys Harrington Researchers have identified a cellular response to repeated concussions that may contribute to seizures...
Some pregnant women don't believe cannabis is harmful to their fetus
Credit: BC Children's Hospital Research Institute Up to one-third of pregnant women do not believe cannabis is harmful to their fetus, according to a new...
Unexpected link found between feeding and memory brain areas
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The search for a mechanism that could explain how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory has revealed an unexpected connection...
Mechanical engineers develop process to 3D print piezoelectric materials
New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducersCredit: Photo by H. Cui of the Zheng Lab...
