Model shows female beauty isn’t just sex appeal
Credit: Photo courtesy of Stacey Weiss, University of Puget Sound DURHAM, N.C. — Female beauty may have less to do with attracting the opposite sex...
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How berberine works to slow diabetes-related cognitive decline in…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 31, 2017–Researchers studying the mechanism of action of the natural, plant-derived compound berberine have linked...
Canadian cardiologist publishes world first mitral regurgitation…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, May 19, 2017– A Canadian cardiologist has published a report in the journal Eurointervention describing how he used...
Study: Most pediatric ICU physicians don’t use current…
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. – A study by University at Buffalo researchers has shown that physicians in pediatric intensive care units are not...
Broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies engineered to be better vaccine…
One approach to HIV vaccine development relies on broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) that protect against different circulating HIV strains. bnAbs have been isolated from HIV-infected...
Chasing fire: Fever and human mobility in an epidemic
Credit: NASA image Disease ecologists working in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, Peru, have quantified for the first time how a fever affects human mobility...
Genes that increase children’s risk of blood infection…
A team led by Oxford University has identified genes that make certain children more susceptible to invasive bacterial infections by performing a large genome-wide association...
Schizophrenia’s strongest known genetic risk deconstructed
IMAGE: The site in Chromosome 6 harboring the gene C4 towers far above other risk-associated areas on schizophrenia's genomic "skyline, " marking its strongest known...
Remembrance of things past — bacterial memory of gut inflammation
Credit: Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. (BOSTON) – The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body, is known to affect human...
1 in 4 kids sexually harassed by friends online
IMAGE: Research led by Michigan State University criminologist Thomas J. Holt suggests 1 in 4 children are sexually harassed by friends online. Credit: Michigan State...
New dental implant with built-in reservoir reduces risk of infections
Credit: © KU Leuven – Kaat De Cremer A multidisciplinary team of researchers at KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium) has developed a dental implant...
Starting age of marijuana use may have long-term effects on brain development
IMAGE: These are divergent patterns in overlapping areas of anterior prefrontal cortex. Credit: Center for BrainHealth The age at which an adolescent begins using marijuana...
Emoji fans take heart: Scientists pinpoint 27 states of emotion
Credit: Courtesy of Alan Cowen. The Emoji Movie, in which the protagonist can't help but express a wide variety of emotions instead of the one...
How spatial navigation correlates with language
Credit: Nikola Vukovic, Yury Shtyrov Cognitive neuroscientists from the Higher School of Economics and Aarhus University experimentally demonstrate how spatial navigation impacts language comprehensi..
Incoming Regenstrief Institute president Embi named chair-elect of…
Credit: Ohio State University INDIANAPOLIS — Peter J. Embi, MD, MS, who joins the Regenstrief Institute as president and CEO on December 15, has been...
