CHICAGO (November 30, 2016): Morbidly obese individuals--those whose weight is more than double normal weight--are prone to overgrowths in their lower extremities that can lead...
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München The antibody ustekinumab is being used successfully for the treatment of psoriasis since 2009. It inhibits the underlying inflammation by neutralizing...
(University of Edinburgh) Brain scientists are using tropical fish to investigate how the spinal cord can be coaxed to repair itself after injury. The European...
Credit: Palo et al. (2016) In the context of increasing land use and climate change, municipality planning faces a growing challenge finding a sustainable balance...
Credit: University of Leicester The planet's technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons - a mass of more than 50 kilos for every square metre...
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Going against the grain - nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable! Nitrogen is everywhere: even in the air there is...
Even mildly elevated body iron contributes to the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes, according to research from the University of Eastern Finland. Excess...
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen This is the result of a national cohort study by researcher and medical doctor Maria Winther Gunnes at the Department of...
The first licensed vaccine for the potentially life-threatening dengue virus should only be used in moderate-to high impacted regions, new research has predicted. A team...
New Haven, Conn. -- A team of researchers in Brazil and at the Yale School of Public Health has published the first report demonstrating that...
Credit: (Picture: Franziska Neubert & Soeren Doose) Fluorescence microscopy visualizes the molecular elements of cells. Proteins of nerve cells, for instance, can be labelled using...
Credit: UEIL, C. Sierra et al. The impassable blood-brain barrier prevents microorganisms from entering our brain, however it also blocks medicines that could help treat...
Credit: MIPT's Press Office A team of scientists from N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), N. K....
The drug baclofen has received high visibility as a possible breakthrough treatment for alcohol dependence*. Now a new randomised controlled trial from the University of...
Credit: Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A new testing methodology based on metagenomics could accelerate the diagnosis of foodborne bacterial outbreaks, allowing public...
