Keeping the taste, reducing the salt
Credit: Public Domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_chip#/media/File:Potato-Chips.jpg) PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have found a way to make food taste salty ...
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$4.9 million initiative addresses racial disparities in maternal, infant mortality
Healthy Start program focuses on black mothers and babiesCredit: University of Houston Despite being home to a world-class medical center, ...
Body mass index may play a significant role in the progression of multiple sclerosis
A new longitudinal study finds a link between blood lipids and worsening of disease in multiple sclerosis patients who are ...
New study advances treatment options for PTSD
New research from Texas A&M neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Maren found that stress increases the activity of fear-promoting regions of the ...
Healing glove reaches major milestone, earns national recognition
Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute The revolutionary bioengineered healing glove created by researchers at the University of ...
Getting closer: Finding out why the immune system attacks itself
B cells gone bad could be the culprit in rheumatoid arthritisCredit: University of Houston Biomolecular researcher Navin Varadarajan has published ...
Rare gut condition a model for study of genetic diseases
Hirschsprung disease - a rare condition where the failure of gut nerves to develop before birth leads to impaired bowel ...
Discovery of ‘kingpin’ stem cell may help in the understanding of cancerous tumors
Cells appear to signal how the surrounding cells will develop and growCredit: Photo courtesy McMaster University. Hamilton, ON (April 11, ...
Lots of patients with cancer, cancer survivors use but don’t report complementary/alternative medicine therapies
Bottom Line: This study used data from a nationwide survey to estimate how many patients with cancer and cancer survivors ...
Shutting down deadly pediatric brain cancer at its earliest moments
Study uses cell-by-cell analyses to look for new therapies that might workCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -- Cell-by-cell genetic analyses of ...
Multiple Denisovan-related ancestries in Papuans
DNA sequences from Indonesia and New Guinea reveal new branches of the Denisovan family treeCredit: © Isabella Apriyana The findings ...
Cancer sufferers’ hair loss misery during chemo could be over
Scientists are developing a specially-formulated shampoo which, combined with scalp cooling innovations, could put an end to the misery for ...
Rutgers scientists discover new role for sensory signals in the brain
Findings could help lead to new treatments for Parkinson's disease, psychiatric disordersCredit: Alex Yonk Learning how to tie a shoe ...
Opioid epidemic may have cost US governments $37.8 billion in tax revenue
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The opioid epidemic may have cost U.S. state and federal governments up to $37.8 billion in ...
Child vaccination levels falling short in large parts of Africa
Credit: WorldPop A study by the University of Southampton shows that several low-and middle-income countries, especially in Africa, need more ...
Chronic diseases restrict the mobility of older people — often unconsciously
Chronic diseases are a key factor limiting the mobility of older people Chronic diseases are a key factor limiting the ...
Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member B10 predicts advanced nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
Credit: Kanazawa University Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is associated with liver inflammation in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and ...
Prostate medicines linked to type 2 diabetes risk, study suggests
Researchers say patients should continue to take the drugs, which are commonly prescribed to older men, but warn they may ...
Bright spot analysis for photodynamic diagnosis of brain tumors using confocal microscopy
Credit: Kanazawa University Photodynamic diagnosis using 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is now widely used for neurosurgical resection of brain tumors. Distinguishing ...
CNIO researchers succeed at removing some types of pancreatic cancer in animal models
Researchers from the Experimental Oncology Group, led by Mariano Barbacid at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), have published ...
