Brain’s ‘GPS’ does a lot more than just navigate
Credit: Illustration by Julia Kuhl The part of the brain that creates mental maps of one's environment plays a much broader role in memory and...
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Stimulating neurons could protect against brain damage, research shows
Credit: University of Dundee A breakthrough in understanding how brain damage spreads – and how it could potentially be limited – has been made through...
Deep learning helps scientists keep track of cell’s inner parts
Credit: Oren Kraus Donnelly Centre researchers have developed a deep learning algorithm that can track proteins, to help reveal what makes cells healthy and what...
Fruit and veg give you the feel-good factor
COVENTRY, UK – July 2016: University of Warwick research indicates that eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people's later happiness levels. Published in...
Scientists reveal new and improved genome sequence of Daphnia pulex
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. The organism is often used...
Seven years later: BP oil spill settlement funding new way to manage fish populations
Credit: University of South Florida photographer Ryan Noone ST. PETERSBURG, FL (April 19, 2017)- More than 30,000 fish species exist. But it's always been a...
Cutting-edge analytics allows health to be improved through nutrition
Credit: AZTI The great contribution of lipidomics is that it establishes a direct relationship between food and metabolic alterations stemming from diet. Lipids are one...
National cooperative group trial seeks to cut in half early mortality rates for rare…
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 20, 2017) – A national cooperative group trial is making a handful of the country's...
Elsevier announces the launch of Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry
Credit: Elsevier Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, today announced the launch of Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry, a new journal dedicated...
A surprising new link between inflammation and mental illness
Credit: Boston Children's Hospital Up to 75 percent of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus — an incurable autoimmune disease commonly known as lupus — experience...
University of Maryland School of Medicine to take part in landmark Zika vaccine study
Baltimore, Md., August 5, 2016 – As world leaders increasingly recognize the Zika virus as an international public health threat, the Center for Vaccine Development...
Neuroscience study identifies new trigger mechanism for fragile X…
BOSTON (July 5, 2016)–A study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience led by Yongjie Yang of Tufts University School of Medicine identifies an astroglial...
The 80th CSH Symposium Proceedings addresses 21st Century Genetics: Genes at Work
The 80th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium was held to mark the 150th anniversary of Gregor Mendel's landmark 1865 presentation of his paper "Experiments on Plant...
Award supports UTSA professor’s efforts to freeze aneurysms and save lives
Ender Finol, associate professor of biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has been honored with the American Heart Association's Collaborative...
Cutting off tumor supplies
Credit: © UNIGE For a tumour to grow, it must develop blood vessels that supply nutrients and oxygen. Preventing tumour vascularization is therefore an interesting...
