Is a pear — or apple-shape physique best for our brains?
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer at Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 29, 2018) – With the new year still ringing, many of us have fat...
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A cellular tango: Immune and nerve cells work together to fight gut…
Credit: Drs. Greg Sonnenberg and David Artis, Weill Cornell Medicine. Nerve cells in the gut play a crucial role in the body's ability to marshal...
Medical school program addresses rural physician shortage
IMAGE: Jana Porter, associate director of the MU School of Medicine's Area Health Education Center and Rural Track Pipeline Program and lead author of the...
Holding infants — or not — can leave traces on their genes
Credit: UBC Faculty of Medicine The amount of close and comforting contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level, an...
Research at MDI Biological Laboratory examines role of early-life…
Credit: Eager Eye Photography BAR HARBOR, MAINE — Scientists have long known that chronic exposure to psychosocial stress early in life can lead to an...
Recruitment begins for world’s first ovarian cancer vaccine trial
Credit: UConn Health/Janine Gelineau. UConn Health is beginning to recruit patients for the world's first personalized genomics-driven ovarian cancer vaccine clinical trial. The goal: to...
Tax reform proposal has serious implications for older americans
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) advised members of Congress that the U.S. House of Representative's tax...
Antivenoms ineffective for common fatal snakebite
Credit: Tom Charlton University of Queensland researchers have found that antivenoms produced using snakes from one region may perform poorly or fail completely against the...
Stem cells collected from fat may have use in anti-aging treatments
Credit: Penn Medicine (PHILADELPHIA) – Adult stem cells collected directly from human fat are more stable than other cells – such as fibroblasts from the...
Researchers study biology of octopuses to develop autonomous robots
Credit: Sun Czar Belous An interdisciplinary team of researchers has received a $2,098,880 grant to study how the complex movements of octopuses can be used...
Science confirms you should stop and smell the roses
Credit: UBC Okanagan Is it any wonder that most happiness idioms are associated with nature? Happy as a pig in muck, happy as a clam,...
Stress may protect — at least in bacteria
Credit: IST Austria Antibiotics harm bacteria and stress them. Trimethoprim (TMP), an antibiotic, inhibits the growth of the bacterium Escherichia coli and induces a stress...
Researchers reverse heart failure in Marfan mice
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In experiments with mice that have a rodent form of Marfan syndrome, Johns Hopkins researchers report that even modestly increasing stress...
An international study opens the door to personalized treatment for…
Credit: Made by CIMA researchers An international multicenter study has identified a molecule that will open the door to personalized treatment for heart failure. The...
US workers without paid sick leave more likely to forego preventive…
Credit: Florida Atlantic University More than 20 million Americans have gained health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and do not have to...
