Our weight tells how we assess food
A new study demonstrated that people of normal weight tend to associate natural foods such as apples with their sensory characteristics. On the other hand,...
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Mind wandering is common during driving
Credit: Image courtesy of Carryl Baldwin Researchers in the United States have investigated mind wandering in volunteers during a driving simulation. When prompted at random...
New $10.8 NIH grant supports KU research into cancer, neurological disorders, lung and…
Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas' Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways, a National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical...
Drug yields high response rates for lung cancer patients with harsh mutation
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A targeted therapy resurrected by the Moon Shots Program™ at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has produced...
Fast-cooking dry beans provide more protein, iron than…
Credit: American Chemical Society Beans are a versatile, inexpensive staple that can boost essential nutrients in a diet, especially for people in low-resource areas where...
Rice U. scientists reel in structure of salmon virus
Credit: Tao Laboratory/Rice University The structure of a protein key to the survival and spread of a virus that affects salmon could inform strategies to...
HIV antibody infusion safely suppresses virus in infected people
A single infusion of a powerful antibody called VRC01 can suppress the level of HIV in the blood of infected people who are not taking...
Risk, benefit or cost: What stops patients from receiving a diagnostic test?
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Diagnostic tests can help identify disease and disease probability in patients. "We try, in the health care community,...
Fighting the flu, year after year
Credit: NIAID WHAT: In a New England Journal of Medicine perspective, experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the...
Penn medicine: Transplant centers often reject potential donor livers…
IMAGE: David Goldberg is an assistant professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA –...
Risk of international spread of yellow fever re-assessed in light of the ongoing outbreaks
ECDC has updated its rapid risk assessment on the outbreak of yellow fever with the latest developments, more comprehensive information on the current situation in...
Muscles can’t get any faster then this … a fundamental muscle speed limit
Credit: Lasse Jakobsen & Coen Elemans/SDU. When birds sing their elaborate songs, bats echolocate, rattlesnakes rattle and toadfish hum they use so-called superfast muscles, the...
Length of opioid prescription spell highest risk for misuse after surgery
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – With opioid overdoses now a leading cause of nonintentional death in the United States, data show most...
UTSW scientists identify protein central to immune response against…
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS, Jan. 11, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein that is central to the immune...
Hormones help tadpoles trade size for survival in a warming climate,…
Credit: University of Cincinnati Deep within aquatic ecosystems all over the world, certain toad species have managed to survive warmer and drier climate change. But...
