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...
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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...
Pine needles from Christmas trees could be turned into paint and food sweeteners
New process could lead to reduction in carbon footprintsCredit: The University of Sheffield Abandoned Christmas trees could be saved from landfill and turned into paint...
Genetic polymorphisms and zinc status
This article by Dr. Angela Polito et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2018 Zinc is one of the essential components in the diet...
Coenzyme Q10 supplementation on metabolic profiles of patients with chronic kidney disease
The article by Dr. Zatollah Asemi et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, Volume 24, Issue 31, 2018 Chronic Kidney disease (CKD) is highly...
Long-term memory encoding engram neurons are established by the transcriptional cycling
While long-term memory (LTM) is known to be encoded in specific neural cells, engram neurons, it has been unclear how these engram neurons are formed...
The landscape of protein tyrosine phosphatase (Shp2) and cancer
This article by Dr. Hai-Feng Chen et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2018 As the proteomics technology develops and human genomic analysis becomes...
