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IMAGE: This infographic illustrates registry responses from 147 healthy weight adults including those who did not maintain strict diets. Credit: Cornell Food and Brand Lab...
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Mutations acquired trans-Pacific may be key to changes in Zika…
Credit: Daniel Janies The Zika virus remains a mystery. Isolated from macaque monkeys in the Ziika Forest in Uganda in 1947, the virus was shown...
New insights into human genetic variation revealed: Nature paper
Published in today's edition of Nature, the research led by Dr Monkol Lek of the University of Sydney and Dr Daniel MacArthur of The Broad...
Strain differences in Zika infection gene patterns
Scientists have revealed molecular differences between how the African and Asian strains of Zika virus infect neural progenitor cells. The results could provide insights into...
Chronic inflammation plays critical role in sustained delivery of new MD therapy
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON — Macrophages, a type of white blood cell involved in inflammation, readily take up a newly approved medication for...
New stem cell gene correction process puts time on researchers’…
Researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Australia have devised a way to dramatically cut the time...
Ancient super-eruptions in Yellowstone Hotspot track…
Credit: Photo taken by Marc Reichow, University of Leicester Images of the Snake River Plain and research team available at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jqfwogc4yy5aje1/AABeZbko4OOkOs17_-oM6_RPa?dl=0 ..
Oligonucleotide drug producers coauthor report on drug impurities
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2017–A new addition to a series of articles that focus on important topics related...
An epidemic of dream deprivation: UA review finds unrecognized health hazard of sleep loss
Credit: University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine TUCSON, Ariz. – A silent epidemic of dream loss is at the root of many of the...
New free web service for deep study of cell functions
A group of scientists from Russia, US, Canada and Germany has developed a simple and effective web service called GAM (Genes And Metabolites) to help...
African lions face same threats as extinct Ice Age ancestors
Credit: Dr Dawn Burnham, WildCRU Newly published in the journal Ecography, the study shows that the wildlife that went extinct during the period, including the...
Healthy theme park meals?
IMAGE: The Journal of the Association for Consumer Research has an eating infographic. Credit: Brian Wansink When meals at Disney World restaurants came with a...
Giving brown fat a green light
Credit: John Soares BOSTON – (March 27, 2017) – Activated by cold, the small amounts of brown fat scattered around your body can burn calories...
Maternal micronutrients, nurturing environment boost child development
Credit: Summit Institute of Development Mataram, Indonesia / Toronto, Canada: Mothers who take multi-micronutrient supplements during pregnancy can add the equivalent of up to one...
Scavenging of inflammatory molecules improves sepsis in mice
Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of infection in which the molecules that the body releases to fight an infection trigger widespread inflammatory responses, resulting in...
