Study: Contact in sports may lead to differences in the brains of…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Aug. 22, 2017–People who play contact sports show changes to their brain structure and function, with sports that...
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UT Southwestern finds link between backup immune defense, mutation…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – July 27, 2017 – Genes that regulate a cellular recycling system called autophagy are commonly mutated in Crohn's disease patients,...
Report of highest incidence of GBS in Africa prompts vaccine study from Wits University
Credit: CDC A global study of GBS, bacteria that cause stillbirth and infant death, shows that Africa has the highest incidence. Wits University is pioneering...
New study links opioid epidemic to childhood emotional abuse
Credit: Brian Jenkins A study by researchers at the University of Vermont has revealed a link between adult opioid misuse and childhood emotional abuse, a...
UT Southwestern geneticist receives Breakthrough Prize
DALLAS – Nov. 9, 2015 – UT Southwestern Medical Center geneticist Dr. Helen H. Hobbs is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in...
Researchers identify genome-modifying enzyme linked to Rett Syndrome
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Program addresses the unique challenges affecting female same-sex couples
Although the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to legalize same-sex marriage was a victory for the gay community, same-sex couples continue to face challenges such...
New biomedical engineering grants aim at heart failure and resistant high blood pressure
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease — heart failure after heart attacks and the scourge of...
Two gifts totaling $150 million add up to bright future for research…
Credit: Children's Mercy / BSA Lifestructures Kansas City, Mo. – Jan. 11, 2018 – Two of Kansas City's iconic families today transformed the future of...
A new role for insulin as a vital factor in maintaining stem cells
Credit: Joshua Brickman New research conducted at the stem cell centre, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen shows that insulin is a key determinant of...
Preliminary stages of dementia reduce human face memorization ability
Credit: Toshikazu Kawagoe A Japanese research group has revealed that elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a particularly weakened ability to memorize human...
Genome architecture’s surprising role in cell fate decisions
Credit: Marco Di Stefano, CNAG-CRG. Scientists have long been reading the code of life – the genome -, as a sequence of letters but now...
Feeding strategies in competing hummingbird species observed in a…
Credit: Lucas Lanna Being the vertebrates with the highest metabolic rate thanks to their rapid wing flaps, the hummingbirds have evolved various types of feeding...
Molecular imaging technique identifies lung nodules for resection in…
Credit: Jarrod Predina, Andrew Newton, Charuhas Deshpande, and Sunil Singhal of The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Philip Low of...
Extinction mystery solved? Evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey’s demise…
Credit: Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins Medicine Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori suggests it may be the...
