Virginia Tech researchers trace the potato’s origins, learn…
Credit: Virginia Tech The comfort food we know and love today as the potato was domesticated between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago from a wild...
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Towards better treatment of cystitis
Every year, millions of people are treated for cystitis, but despite its prevalence, the disease is still a scientific mystery. Now a research team from...
Brief primary care intervention cut risky drug use among Latinos by 40 percent
Credit: AltaMed FINDINGS New research finds that brief interventions in a primary care clinic can reduce patients' risky substance use by 4.5 days per month...
NIH study finds donor corneas can be safely preserved for longer…
Credit: Credit George Rosenwasser, M.D. Results from a large, national clinical trial show that corneal donor tissue can be safely stored for 11 days without...
Safe spaces play important role in community-based HIV prevention,…
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The creation and sustainment of "safe spaces" may play a critical role in community-based HIV prevention efforts by providing social support and...
Can’t get to sleep? Pitch a tent for the weekend
Credit: University of Colorado Boulder Filling the day with natural light and the night with true darkness for as little as a weekend can have...
Scientists investigate how different houses and lifestyles affect which bugs live with us
Credit: © Matt Bertone of North Carolina State University SAN FRANCISCO (November 10, 2017) – Humans have lived under the same roof with bugs since...
Stereotactic partial breast radiation lowers number of treatments to 5
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – May 8, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found in a recent phase one clinical trial that...
Which research results in mice will help humans with MS? Now…
Credit: Jessie J. Polanco BUFFALO, N.Y. — People with multiple sclerosis (MS) know all too well the frustration of hearing that success in treating the...
Mouse studies offer new insights about cocaine’s effect on the brain
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University/PNAS Cocaine is one of the most addictive substances known to man, and for good...
More evidence that Zika mRNA vaccines can stop viral replication in mice
Credit: Richner and Himansu et al./Cell 2017 Vaccine developers have successfully protected mice against Zika by injecting synthetic messenger RNA that encodes for virus proteins...
Experimental therapy for immune diseases hits Achilles heel of…
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI – Immune diseases like multiple sclerosis and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis unleash destructive waves of inflammation on the body, causing death or ..
Genomic testing could speed research on skin disease, bring new drugs to patients faster
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University In an ideal world, the newest and most effective drugs for chronic inflammatory conditions would immediately help everyone who took...
Pinpointing loneliness in the brain
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Patterns of obesity prove resilient
A trio of recent reports has shed new light on U.S. health, with mixed results on obesity, smoking, and blood pressure. Data on obesity show...