Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck, study finds
Credit: Credit: Duo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some genetic diseases persist for generation after generation because the genes that cause them can benefit human health. Sickle...
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A new index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide to understand the causes and...
Stopping Zika: Saint Louis University to launch human vaccine trial
ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University's vaccine center has been tapped by the National Institutes of Health to conduct a human clinical trial of a...
Identification of protein crucial to lymphatic system development
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Lymphatic vessels form a circulatory system that plays an important role in controlling the amount of fluid in tissues, and...
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
Credit: MPI f. Developmental Biology/ M. Exposito-Alonso In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate...
Transcription factor expression tied to medial amygdala neuronal ID,…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Neurons derived from two different types of precursor cells that later develop into neurons in the medial amygdala...
Eat less and be happy — really!
IMAGE: This is from the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Credit: Cornell Food and Brand Lab Try this on...
GI problems in autism may originate in genes, study suggests
Credit: Kara Gross Margolis, M.D., and Michael Gershon, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (April 25, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)...
Brain ‘reads’ sentences the same in English and Portuguese
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain "reads" or decodes a sentence in...
Keratin hydrogels show significant potential to regenerate lost muscle tissue & function
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 27, 2017–The use of human hair-derived keratin biomaterials to regenerate skeletal muscle has shown promise...
Plant’s parent genes cooperate in shaping their child
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University, have reported in...
Unlocking the secrets of gene expression
Your DNA governs more than just what color your eyes are and whether you can curl your tongue. Your genes contain instructions for making all...
Russian scientists discover how certain proteins may help fight chlamydia
Scientists from Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology and MIPT have shown that peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGLYRPs) of...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower as we like to think
Credit: Image by Arianna Harrington, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. — For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share of their daily calories to...
Poor nutrition during pregnancy can cause early aging of baby’s…
Credit: Dr. Peter Nathanielsz and Dr. Geoffrey Clarke New research has shown that the child of a slightly undernourished mother is more likely to suffer...