Contact with monkeys and apes puts populations at risk
Credit: S. Rupp, 2018 (CC BY 4.0) Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans...
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Speed up public health decisions on scabies by skipping full-body exams, study says
Credit: Lucia Romani, 2018, CC BY 4.0 For years, the diagnosis of scabies has relied on time-consuming and intrusive full-body examinations. Now, researchers reporting in...
Sleeping sickness parasite uses multiple metabolic pathways
Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a study published December 27 in the open-access journal PLOS...
Bacteria found in ancient Irish soil halts growth of superbugs — new hope for tackling antibiotic resistance
Credit: G Quinn, Swansea University Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain...
Historical genomes reveal recent changes in genetic health of eastern gorillas
Credit: Amy Porter, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International The critically endangered Grauer's gorilla has recently lost genetic diversity and has experienced an increase in harmful...
FSU researchers unravel mystery of how, when DNA replicates
Credit: Bruce Palmer/FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A team of Florida State University researchers has unlocked a decades-old mystery about how a critical cellular...
How exercise reduces belly fat in humans
Credit: Wedell-Neergaard, Lehrskov, and Christensen, et al. / Cell Metabolism Some of you may have made a New Year's resolution to hit the gym to...
Better mouse model built to enable precision-medicine research for Alzheimer's
NIH-funded team shows that introducing genetic diversity improves translatability Incorporating genetic diversity into a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease resulted in greater overlap with the...
Proportion of cancers associated with excess body weight varies considerably by state
Cancers related to body weight twice as predominant in women than in men A new study looking at the share of cancers related to obesity...
Your brain rewards you twice per meal: When you eat and when food reaches your stomach
We know a good meal can stimulate the release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, and now a study in humans from the Max Planck Institute...
New study shows link between secondhand smoke and cardiac arrhythmia
Credit: Copyright UC Regents 2018 Continuous indoor exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke triggers changes in the heart's electrical activity, known as cardiac alternans, that can...
Multicenter trial supports use of topical antibiotics in NICU babies
Researchers tested the effectiveness of a topical antibiotic in eliminating Staphylococcus aureus colonization in hospitalized infants BALTIMORE, MD, Dec. 26, 2018 -- A team of...
Treatment of Parkinson's disease: Separating hope from hype
The article by Dr. Alireza Mohammadi et al. is published in Current Gene Therapy, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2018 Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder...
How the brain enables us to rapidly focus attention
Credit: Artwork by Lee Fletcher, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. University of Queensland researchers have discovered a key mechanism in the brain that...
Phytochemistry, traditional uses and pharmacological profile of rose hip
This article by Dr. Amirhossein Sahebkar et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2018 The genus Rosa from family Rosaceae is one of the...
