Cholesterol-fighting drugs lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: USC Schaeffer Center Common anti-cholesterol drugs show promise for reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease, a University of Southern California-led study of Medicare data...
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UMass Amherst neuroscientist receives $2.64 million from NIH for…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Neuroscientist Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $2.64 million grant from the National...
Hearing with your eyes — a Western style of speech perception
Credit: Dr. Kaoru Sekiyama Which parts of a person's face do you look at when you listen them speak? Lip movements affect the perception of...
Mechanism of familial Parkinson’s disease clarified in fruit fly model
Credit: Tohoku University Osaka – Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, with up to 10 million people affected worldwide. PD is...
Latest research reveals sitting in traffic jams is officially bad for…
With millions of motorists set to hit the road for the bank holiday weekend, drivers have been urged to close windows and turn off fans...
University of Maryland orthopaedic surgeons to receive international…
Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine BALTIMORE – Nov. 30, 2017. A research team led by Mohit N. Gilotra, MD, assistant professor of orthopaedics...
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time,…
Credit: L.A. Cicero When we are in a deep slumber our brain's activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves, like watching a tide of...
INNUENDO — a new platform for genomics integration in surveillance of food-borne…
IMAGE: The project coordinator, Assistant Professor Mirko Rossi is in the back. In front, from the left are Docent Janne Lunden, Ph.D. Ann-Katrin Llarena, Professor...
Salk scientists adapt computer program to gauge eye spasm severity
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm — uncontrollable muscle contractions around the eye — they'll often...
‘Beiging’ white fat cells to fight diabetes
PHILADELPHIA – Researchers are getting closer to learning how to turn white fat cells into brown fat cells, in a process called "beiging," to bring...
Researchers overcome obstacle for future stem cell therapies
Credit: Robert Judson and Fabio Rossi Researchers have discovered a new technique that overcomes one of the major challenges of stem cell therapy. A drug,...
UCLA study could explain link between high-cholesterol diet and colon cancer
Credit: Tontonoz lab/UCLA New UCLA research could help explain the link between a high-cholesterol diet and an elevated risk for colon cancer. In a study...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like…
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to better understand how to enable...
The origin of snakes — new evolutionary scenario presented
Credit: University of Helsinki. The early evolution of snakes happened from surface-terrestrial to burrowing in the lizard-snake transition suggests a research group at the University...
Could a saliva test be next for lupus?
Credit: University of Houston The symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus) can fool you. You might think you're tired or have...
