Healthy lifestyle may help older adults preserve their independence
In a study of men with an average age of 71 years, lifestyle factors such as never smoking, maintaining a healthy diet, and not being...
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Breast-feeding peer support services are lacking in many UK regions
Peer support is recommended by the World Health Organization for the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, but in a survey of 136 service managers with...
Mindfulness-based therapy may reduce stress in overweight and obese individuals
In a randomized clinical trial of women who were overweight or obese, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) increased mindfulness and decreased stress compared with health education....
Some patients with dementia may experience delayed-onset PTSD
Delayed-onset post-traumatic symptoms in the elderly may be misdiagnosed as falling under the umbrella of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), according to a...
Lymph node metastases may not always be the source of cancer’s spread to other organs
A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found that the traditional model for the spread of carcinoma, the deadliest form of cancer...
Researchers publish new findings on influence of high-fat diet on colorectal cancer
Thursday, July 6, 2017, Cleveland: Poor diet is associated with 80% of colorectal cancer cases, but the exact pathways by which diet leads to cancer...
A new molecular scissors act like a GPS to improve genome editing
Credit: University of Copenhagen Researchers from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), led by the Spanish researcher Guillermo Montoya, have discovered how Cpf1, a new molecular...
Media registration open for the Advanced Breast Cancer Conference
Media can register now to attend the Advanced Breast Cancer Fourth International Consensus Conference (ABC4) in Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 November 2017....
Visualizing whole-body cancer metastasis at the single-cell level
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBic) and the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) have developed a method to visualize cancer metastasis in...
Flexible and cost-effective fabrication of nature inspired structural colors
Throughout nature, colors generally arise from two sources: pigment colors and structural colors. For application purposes, pigments or dyes that absorb light are considered to...
Changes in brain regions may explain why some prefer order and certainty
Credit: Patricia Marroquin/UCLA Why do some people prefer stable, predictable lives while others prefer frequent changes? Why do some people make rational decisions and others,...
QUT develops golden bananas high in pro-vitamin A
Credit: Patria Janides, QUT The decade-long research, led by Distinguished Professor James Dale, involved extensive laboratory tests at QUT as well as field trials in...
International cancer research conference organised by A*STAR and NCCS
Singapore, 5 July 2017 - One of the largest cancer research conferences in the world, the 17th International p53 Workshop, will be hosted in Singapore...
Entasis Therapeutics and the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) to develop a new treatment for drug-resistant gonorrhea
Zoliflodacin, a novel first-in-class oral antibiotic and one of the only treatments in development to address the rapidly-growing threat of drug-resistant gonorrhea will enter pivotal...
Surveying sea floor animals for offshore renewable energy
CORVALLIS, Ore. - There is growing interest in developing offshore wind and wave energy facilities in the Pacific Northwest. But not much is known about...
