Serotonin promotes perseverance
Credit: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown/Sara Matias What happens when serotonin levels increase in human brain? How does this affect our behavior? This is a...
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How cellular structure orchestrates immunologic memory
With every infection or vaccination, memory cells form that the body uses to remember the pathogen. This has been known for decades - but the...
Air pollution linked to brain alterations and cognitive impairment in children
Philadelphia, March 8, 2018 - A new study performed in the Netherlands has linked exposure to residential air pollution during fetal life with brain abnormalities...
Many adolescent and young adult cancer survivors have more social connections than peers
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Seth Dixon Survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer often have stronger social networks than their non-cancer peers,...
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy linked to brain alterations
Credit: ISGlobal / Biological psychiatry A new study performed by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) --a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation--...
New way to fight sepsis: Rev up patients’ immune systems
Credit: Huy Mach While many people have never heard of sepsis, it causes about 250,000 deaths annually in the United States. The condition develops when...
Algorithm shows differences between nurse, doctor care
Credit: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago has published the first quantitative study on the divergent scopes...
Scientists show how the brain may be wired for drinking fluids
Credit: Courtesy of Oka lab; CalTech, Pasadena Scientists uncovered a high-resolution map of the wiring inside the mouse brain's thirst center. With these blueprints, they...
Supply bottleneck impairs nerve function
Credit: Hanaa Ghanawi Two partners have to find their way to each other in order to transport substances to the remote ends of special nerve...
Researchers rescue embryos from brain defects by re-engineering cellular voltage patterns
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 8, 2018) Tufts University biologists have demonstrated for the first time that electrical patterns in the developing embryo can be predicted, mapped,...
Report: Big tobacco is targeting the world’s most vulnerable to increase profits
The sixth edition of The Tobacco Atlas and its companion website TobaccoAtlas.org* finds the tobacco industry is increasingly targeting vulnerable populations in emerging markets, such...
Got the message? Your brainwaves will tell
The new technique was developed by Professor Tom Francart and his colleagues from the Department of Neurosciences at KU Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with the...
Marine charities net more than iconic fishery: Massachusetts
Massachusetts boasts one of the most iconic fisheries in the U.S., but new research suggests that protecting marine coastlines has surpassed commercial fishing as an...
Studies examine trends in pain medication use
A new study reveals that acetaminophen use and over-dosing rise in cold/flu season in the United States, primarily due to increased use of over-the-counter combination...
Saliva plays a role in the body’s defense against traveler’s diarrhea
(Boston)--Researchers have identified a protein in saliva (histatin-5) that protects the body from traveler's diarrhea. The findings, available online in the Journal of Infectious Diseases,...
