Two gifts totaling $150 million add up to bright future for research…
Credit: Children's Mercy / BSA Lifestructures Kansas City, Mo. – Jan. 11, 2018 – Two of Kansas City's iconic families today transformed the future of...
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A new role for insulin as a vital factor in maintaining stem cells
Credit: Joshua Brickman New research conducted at the stem cell centre, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen shows that insulin is a key determinant of...
Preliminary stages of dementia reduce human face memorization ability
Credit: Toshikazu Kawagoe A Japanese research group has revealed that elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a particularly weakened ability to memorize human...
Genome architecture’s surprising role in cell fate decisions
Credit: Marco Di Stefano, CNAG-CRG. Scientists have long been reading the code of life – the genome -, as a sequence of letters but now...
Feeding strategies in competing hummingbird species observed in a…
Credit: Lucas Lanna Being the vertebrates with the highest metabolic rate thanks to their rapid wing flaps, the hummingbirds have evolved various types of feeding...
Molecular imaging technique identifies lung nodules for resection in…
Credit: Jarrod Predina, Andrew Newton, Charuhas Deshpande, and Sunil Singhal of The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Philip Low of...
Extinction mystery solved? Evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey’s demise…
Credit: Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins Medicine Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori suggests it may be the...
Cervical lesions change fastest in Hispanics, slowest in blacks–for better and worse
Credit: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association CHICAGO–January 11, 2018–Physicians determining treatment options following abnormal Pap smears now have another factor to consider: the patien..
UC researchers help map future of precision medicine in…
Credit: Cindy Starr CINCINNATI — Two landmark publications with one or more co-authors from the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute outline a transformative approach...
Deeper than obesity: A majority of people is now overfat
Credit: Image re-used with permission from Maffetone, Rivera and Laursen (2016) Front. Public Health, frontiersin.org Just in time for those making New Year's resolutions, researchers...
Can environmental toxins disrupt the biological ‘clock’?
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. – Can environmental toxins disrupt circadian rhythms – the biological "clock" whose disturbance is linked to chronic inflammation and a host...
Debate on duration of colon cancer adjuvant chemotherapy takes centre…
Professor Alberto Sobrero, Head of the Medical Oncology Unit at Ospedale San Martino in Genova, Italy LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 – The debate on whether...
Sanford Health to study alternatives to opioids
Credit: Sanford Health Sanford Health is one of three sites in the U.S. to launch a study to determine if non-opioid medications are as effective...
Child abuse injuries more likely to be severe if caregiver is male and unrelated to child
Credit: Children's National Health System CHICAGO — Efforts to prevent child abuse by people who care for children should extend to additional categories of caregivers...
Wired for gaming: Brain differences in compulsive video game players
SALT LAKE CITY – Brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video game players are wired differently. Chronic...
