Where cigarette smoking’s damage is done…down to your DNA
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to lung cancer. Now, for the...
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80 percent of Ebola survivors suffer disabilities one year after discharge
Credit: (MG Semple ©) New research, conducted by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, highlights the need for long-term rehabilitation of...
Researchers examine role of gene variation linked to Major Depressive…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Dec. 5, 2017-A new study assessed the effects of a SLC6A15 gene variant on resting-state brain...
Localized cooling of the heart limits damage caused by a heart attack
Credit: Catharina Hospital Eindhoven Cardiologists at the Catharina hospital in Eindhoven have succeeded in the localized cooling of the heart during a heart attack, a...
Oligodendrocyte selectively myelinates a particular set of axons in the white matter
Credit: NIPS/NINS There are three kinds of glial cells in the brain, oligodendrocyte, astrocyte and microglia. Oligodendrocytes myelinate neuronal axons to increase conduction velocity of...
Zika virus challenges for neuropsychiatry recently published by Dove Medical Press
A new study, published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal, examines this by critically reviewing the literature. The Zika virus is an arbovirus spread...
Multidisciplinary approach to identifying and caring for ischemic…
Credit: Kirsty Challen, BSc, MBChB, MRes, PhD, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom. DES PLAINES, IL– A multidisciplinary approach aimed at providing emergency physicians with a...
New device provides quick, easy, and affordable testing for blood…
Credit: (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo) University of Connecticut researchers have developed a device that tests an important indicator of heart health that is often ignored –...
Wayne State awarded $3.2 million NIH grant for schizophrenia research
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT – Researchers in the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences will use a new...
NASA study finds microgravity reduces regenerative potential of…
New Rochelle, NY, November 23, 2015–A study performed on the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery showed that exposure of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) to microgravity...
Oxidative stress produces damage linked with increased risk of preterm…
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas – A group of scientists led by Ramkumar Menon at The University of Texas...
Insect growth regulator wears a second hat: Infection fighter
IMAGE: The Hippo pathway helps fight off the body's would-be invaders. Credit: Credit: © I-Hsun Wu 2016 During an animal's embryonic development, a chemical chain...
A defence mechanism that can trap and kill TB bacteria
Credit: Laura Schnettger, Francis Crick Institute A natural mechanism by which our cells kill the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (TB) has been discovered by scientists...
Some women with history of pre-eclampsia have significantly lower risk…
Researchers have demonstrated that women with a history of preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication characterized by high blood pressure, have as much as a 90% decrease...
Seafood poisoning bug thwarts a key host defense by attacking the…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – June 22, 2017 – The leading cause of acute gastroenteritis linked to eating raw seafood disarms a key host defense...
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