Research finds midlife women twice as likely as men to have asthma
Credit: Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center In childhood, asthma is more common in boys than girls. But around the time of puberty, that...
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Monitoring the rise and fall of the microbiome
The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one microbe type that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome...
Asthma medicine halves risk of Parkinson’s
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen, University of Bergen. By studying the effect of 1000 medicines, researchers discovered that medicine against asthma and blood pressure is linked...
CNS awards Lithuanian professor for the paradigm shift in neurolog
Credit: European Patent Office The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by...
Novel PET tracer detects small blood clots
Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism, which...
How cells divide tasks and conquer work
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(June 7, 2017) Despite advances in neuroscience, the brain is still very much a black box–no one even knows how many...
WPI researcher wins NSF CAREER Award to study how bacteria survive in stressful conditions
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. – As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and urban clinics in Peru studying...
Guanfacine is safe and well-tolerated in children and adolescents with…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 1, 2017–A pilot study of guanfacine, a controlled-release alpha2-agonist, in children and adolescents with general,...
Basic microbiology research study unexpectedly uncovers practical…
Credit: The American Phytopathological Soceity St. Paul, Minn. (March 2017)–Cover cropping, or the practice of growing unharvested crops to protect and enrich the soil during...
Follistatin is a key player in embryo implantation
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Looking to improve the success rate of assisted reproductive technologies, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine investigated in more detail...
Antibodies to dengue may alter course of Zika virus infection
Scientists at Emory Vaccine Center, in collaboration with investigators from Thailand, have found that people infected with dengue virus develop antibodies that cross-react with Zika...
Dr. Dobryakova of Kessler Foundation researches effect of feedback on cognitive fatigue
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 18, 2018 – Ekaterina Dobryakova, PhD, research scientist in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Kessler Foundation,...
From mother to child, passing on disease
IMAGE: UI researchers are reminding US doctors to watch for two vector-borne and potentially life-threatening diseases — Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis — that can be...
Nixing the cells that nix immune response against cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Some cells excite the immune system. Others soothe it. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are one type of soothing cell,...
Physical activity could combat fatigue, cognitive decline in cancer survivors
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study indicates that cancer patients and survivors have a ready weapon against fatigue and...
