Animal cyborg: Behavioral control by ‘toy’ craving circuit
Credit: KAIST Children love to get toys from parents for their birthday present. This craving toward items also involves object hoarding disorders and shopping addiction....
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Odd one out: Protein goes against the family to prevent cancer donate
Credit: Image: Jun Low/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Melbourne researchers have made the surprise discovery that the 'odd one out' in a family of proteins...
Promising cell study provides hope of effective treatment of Parkinson’s disease
For the first-time there is the prospect of medical doctors and researchers being able to alleviate the serious symptoms that follow with Parkinson's disease. The...
A blood test when it is safe to return to play after a sports-related concussion
Credit: Photo by Elin Lindstrom Claessen A high-sensitive blood test can aid concussed hockey players when it might be safe to return to play. In...
IBS patients obtain robust, enduring relief from home-based treatment program
Credit: Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the largest federally funded non-drug clinical trial for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), patients with the most...
Antibiotic resistance can be caused by small amounts of antibiotics
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a global and growing problem in health care. To be able to prevent further development of resistance developing, it is important to...
Hacking human ‘drug trafficking’ network could make diabetes treatments more effective
Credit: Imperial College London Making tiny changes to existing diabetes treatments can alter how they interact with cells, and potentially make the medicines more effective....
How your brain learns to expect mud puddles in the park (and other things)
Updated expectations are vital for making decisions Your midbrain encodes the expectation error and relays it to the frontal lobe to revise Dopamine neurons are...
People with false-positive cancer screening results may be more likely to receive future screening
An analysis of electronic medical records indicates that patients who previously had a false-positive breast or prostate cancer screening test are more likely to obtain...
Nanomedicine: Drugs can be made ‘smarter’
A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target. Scientists from the...
Eating more fish could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shines more light on the link between consumption of fish...
Trees with grassy areas soften summer heat
Credit: (Picture: F. Rahman/ TUM) Trees cool their environment and "heat islands" like Munich benefit from it. However, the degree of cooling depends greatly on...
Young athletes interested in healthy protein, not French fries
The greasy food being served at hockey rinks isn't really what young hockey players want, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The...
Addition precautions at hospital don’t help prevent spread of resistant bacteria
Madrid, Spain: Contact precautions, used in addition to the standard precautions, the basic level of infection control applied to all patients, did not limit or...
Multiple sclerosis may be linked to sheep disease toxin
Exposure to a toxin primarily found in sheep could be linked to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans, new research suggests. Carried out...
