A surprising new link between inflammation and mental illness
Credit: Boston Children's Hospital Up to 75 percent of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus -- an incurable autoimmune disease commonly known as lupus -- experience...
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Protein network signals found to drive myeloid leukemias
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers have uncovered how mutations in a protein network drive several high-risk leukemias, offering new prospects for novel therapies. An...
Dressmakers found to have needle-sharp 3-D vision
Haute couture can be credited for enhancing more than catwalks and red carpets. New research from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that the 3D...
Why we get diarrhea
Credit: Image courtesy of the Turner laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Researchers want to know: does diarrhea serve a purpose? Does it actually help...
State medical licensing boards’ practices may hurt physician mental health
Credit: Michigan Medicine Sharing a history of mental health issues with an employer is difficult for anyone. It's that much harder if reporting an old...
Boston Medical Center, Head Start partner to prevent maternal depression
BOSTON - Boston Medical Center (BMC), in partnership with Action for Boston Community Development's (ABCD) Head Start program, has helped mothers experience a 40 percent...
Anti-malaria drugs: Potential new target identified
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH University Park, PA -- A newly described protein could be an effective target for combatting drug-resistant...
Understanding river thermal landscapes
Credit: E. Ashley Steel. The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. River temperatures have long been an area...
Gluten-free beer from Witkop teff grains
For celiac patients and others on gluten-free diets, it seems like gluten is everywhere -- cakes, cookies and breads. It's even in most beers. But...
First CRISPR crop could debut in 2020
The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9 made a huge splash in the news when it was initially announced. But the first commercial product, expected around...
Promising peas’ potential in big sky country
Credit: Photo credit Central Agricultural Research Center. Farmers in Montana, and other parts of the Northern Great Plains, are shifting from cereal mono-cropping to a...
Researchers team with Land Institute to boost perennial permaculture with native fungi
Credit: University of Kansas | Kansas Biological Survey LAWRENCE -- Consider the humble soil just below our feet. It's actually an intricate matrix of minerals,...
Previous bacterial infection increases risk of newly-diagnosed Sjögren’s syndrome
(European League Against Rheumatism) The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology 2017 have shown a link between newly-diagnosed...
Peer-led self-management programs may not help teenagers with asthma
A study from the University of Warwick suggests peer-led self-management programmes have little impact on the quality of life or lung function of adolescents with...
Child Mind Institute’s Healthy Brain Network releases open dataset
The Child Mind Institute today announced the release of the first dataset from the groundbreaking Healthy Brain Network study, and the inauguration of the Healthy...
