Head impact exposure increases as youth football players get older, bigger
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - June 21, 2017 - Youth football players are exposed to more and more forceful head impacts as they move up in age-...
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Biological fingerprint of tuberculosis meningitis discovered in children
Credit: Ursula Rohlwink Children with tuberculosis meningitis - a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death -- have a biological fingerprint...
Common water treatments could damage DNA
Scientists are warning that a water treatment widely used in developing countries could be damaging the DNA of those drinking it. Despite poor evidence of...
New study examines relationship between emotion regulation and brain connectivity in ASD
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 21, 2017--Emotional control varies among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and researchers using functional...
Systems pharmacology modelers accelerate drug discovery in Alzheimer’s
Credit: © InSysBio Alzheimer's is a chronic neurodegenerative disease which leads to the senile cognitive impairment and memory loss. Every third person older than 70...
Marriage makes men fatter, shows new research
Being married makes men gain weight, and the early days of fatherhood add to the problem, finds new research from the University of Bath's School...
Transportation noise increases risk for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes
How transportation noise affects the health of people remains in many aspects unexplained. Since 2014, an interdisciplinary Swiss consortium has been studying the short- and...
Newly identified protection mechanism serves as first responder to cellular stress
ANN ARBOR--Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute have identified a new type of rapid-response defense mechanism that helps protect cells from environmental...
New catalyst paves way for carbon neutral fuel
Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from the...
Wild monkeys use loud calls to assess the relative strength of rivals
ANN ARBOR--Gelada males--a close relative to baboons--pay attention to the loud calls of a rival to gain information about his relative fighting ability compared to...
Spanish researchers review the state-of-the-art text mining technologies for chemistry
In a recent Chemical Reviews article, the Biological Text Mining Unit at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) together with with researchers at the...
Molecular test for common causes of vaginitis receives FDA approval
Johns Hopkins researchers report that a molecular diagnostic test accurately distinguishes among the three most common causes of vaginitis, an inflammation of vaginal tissue they...
New 3-D display takes the eye fatigue out of virtual reality
Credit: Liang Gao, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign WASHINGTON -- There is a great deal of excitement around virtual reality (VR) headsets that...
Provider’s preference for pain therapy can affect patient’s results, UF researchers find
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A health care provider's beliefs about a particular treatment may have a strong influence on the patient's outcome, according to a new...
The world’s largest canary
Biologists at Lund University, together with their colleagues from Portugal and the UK, have now proven that the endangered São Tomé grosbeak is the world's...
