Lost your appetite? Try inviting yourself to dinner
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat with company than when they...
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Researchers ID first 2 genes regulating sleep in mice using genetic screening
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – November 2, 2016 – Researchers have identified the first two core genes that regulate the amount of deep sleep and...
Researchers identify mental health screening tools, barriers for Latino children
Credit: Edith Martinez In a bid to improve mental health screening of Latino children from immigrant families, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have...
DNA and protein ‘liquid biopsy’ for early pancreatic…
Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The combined “liquid biopsy”...
Mountain gorillas have herpes virus similar to that found in humans
Credit: Courtesy Tierra Smiley Evans/UC Davis Scientists from the University of California, Davis, have detected a herpes virus in wild mountain gorillas that is very...
EurekAlert! Fellowships ‘validating’ for Chinese, Indian science reporters at…
Credit: Courtesy photos provided by the winners Winners of the 2017 EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters say the opportunity to attend the world's largest...
Study explores impact of obesity on bone marrow cells
Credit: Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -New research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine highlights the pernicious effect of obesity on the long-term health of...
Mini cancer tumours grown in first-of-kind pioneering research
Credit: University of Birmingham Charity Cancer Research UK has awarded the University of Birmingham £1.5 million to fund a five-year research programme aimed at finding...
Vitamin D deficiency may limit immune recovery in HIV-positive adults
Athens, Ga. – A University of Georgia researcher has found that low levels of vitamin D may limit the effectiveness of HIV treatment in adults....
Penn researchers help unravel mysteries of pancreatic cancer’s resistance to…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the hardest to treat. Now, in a new study, researchers at the Perelman...
Tiny organisms with a massive impact
Credit: Matthias Sieber / ETH Zurich / ACE Diatoms are a very common group of algae found not only in freshwater streams, rivers and lakes,...
CNIC scientists discover a key signal in intercellular communication
Credit: CNIC A team of scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), led by Prof. Francisco Sánchez-Madrid, has characterized a cell...
Environmental factors may contribute to the development of some…
Environmental factors may be a contributory cause in the development of some childhood cancers, leading scientists have revealed. Experts at Newcastle University, UK, have carried...
SWAT team of immune cells helps reduce infection rates in babies after cleft lip surgery
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 17, 2016) – The mouth is widely considered the dirtiest part of the human body, yet babies have surprisingly...
After gene therapy, hemophilia B patients maintain near-normal levels of clotting factor
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers are reporting the highest and most sustained levels to date of the essential blood-clotting factor IX in patients with...
