Mechanism that helps parasites manipulate their hosts
Rodents infected with a common parasite lose their fear of cats, resulting in easy meals for the felines. Now IU School of Medicine researchers have...
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This is why your brain needs sleep
The brain uses a quarter of the body's entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body's mass. So how does...
New Compound Prevents Diabetes Before It Begins
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have successfully tested a potent synthetic compound that prevents type 1 diabetes in animal...
Revolutionary 3-D printing technology
A 3-D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer...
New nanodevice defeats drug resistance
Tiny particles embedded in gel can turn off drug-resistance genes, then release cancer drugs. Chemotherapy often shrinks tumors at first, but as cancer cells become...
Aging and Cognition
Neuroscientists find that different parts of the brain work best at different ages. Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall...
How the brain recognizes familiar music
Research from McGill University reveals that the brain’s motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed in the past better than...
Energetic immune cells vital for fighting disease
A good immune system relies on a key 'energy producing' protein in immune cells to develop immunity to vaccines and disease, an international team of...
Scent-trained dog detects thyroid cancer
A trained scent dog accurately identified whether patients' urine samples had thyroid cancer or were benign (noncancerous) 88.2 percent of the time, according to a...
Multitasking hunger neurons also control compulsive behaviors
In the absence of food, neurons that normally control appetite initiate complex, repetitive behaviors seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and anorexia nervosa, according to a...
Twin copies of a gene pair up in embryonic stem cells
Imagine a pair of twins that everyone believed to be estranged, who turn out to be closer than anyone knew. A genetic version of this...
Touch-Sensitive Skin for Mobile Devices
If a mobile phone rings during a meeting, its owner often has to dig it out before it can be muted. A more discreet method...
Popular antioxidant likely ineffective
The popular dietary supplement ubiquinone, also known as Coenzyme Q10, is widely believed to function as an antioxidant, protecting cells against damage from free radicals....
Activating genes on demand
When it comes to gene expression - the process by which our DNA provides the recipe used to direct the synthesis of proteins and other...
Breakthrough discovery in cancer treatment
Michail Sitkovsky, an immunophysiology expert at Northeastern University, and his research colleagues have made a breakthrough discovery in cancer treatment. The new approach, some 30...
