Depressed children respond differently to rewards than other kids
Credit: Robert Boston For many children, December often is linked to presents and excitement, but when a young child doesn't seem all that enthused about...
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Is gender affirmative treatment effective for coexisting gender dysphoria and psychosis?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017 — A new study demonstrates that gender dysphoria in individuals with coexisting psychotic...
Penn study solves mystery of cell powerhouse’s balance of calcium
IMAGE: The mitochondrial matric calcium ion concentration regulates activity of the major mitochondrial calcium influx pathway, as measured by patch clamp physiology. Credit: The lab...
$2 million grant to speed the development of new vector control products
Credit: LSTM LSTM's Department of Vector Biology has received a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a research programme to develop...
Behind Green Eyes: New Species of deep-water hermit crab finds itself…
Credit: Jannes Landschoff 'Green-eyed hermit crab' is the common name for a new species recently discovered off the West Coast of South Africa. Apart from...
Research redefines proteins’ role in the development of spinal sensory cells
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/eLife A recent study led by Samantha Butler at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and...
UMass Amherst and research partners aim to improve flu season forecasts
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Research teams, including one led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, are participating in a...
Bad air quality along utah’s wasatch front causes more than 200 pneumonia cases each year
Credit: University of Utah Health SALT LAKE CITY – Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is...
Here’s how your body transports zinc to protect your health
Credit: Courtesy Wladek Minor Zinc is essential for wound healing, for vision, for DNA creation, for our senses of taste and smell, even for sexual...
Placenta consumption offers few benefits for new moms
Credit: UNLV Photo Services A groundbreaking study by UNLV researchers shows that taking placenta capsules has little to no effect on postpartum mood, maternal bonding,...
Once-a-week text messages to Kenyan women greatly improved likelihood…
A newly published, Canadian government funded study documents how a simple, inexpensive effort to send short, informative text messages regularly to young women's phones could...
Alzheimer’s disease might be a ‘whole body’ problem
Credit: University of British Columbia Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, has long been assumed to originate in the brain. But research from the...
New plant engineering method could help fill demand for crucial malaria drug
A new and inexpensive technique for mass-producing the main ingredient in the most effective treatment for malaria, artemisinin, could help meet global demands for the...
In lab research, scientists slow progression of a fatal form of muscular dystrophy
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a paper published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, Saint Louis University (SLU) researchers report that a...
Mobile phone use while pregnant not linked to child neurodevelopment problems
Mobile phone use during pregnancy is unlikely to have any adverse effects on child neurodevelopment, according to new research published in the open access journal...
