Form of severe malnutrition linked to DNA modification
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A group led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has identified significant differences at ...
Tag: Physiology
Glutamine may decrease obesity-linked inflammation
Credit: Ulf Sirborn. Glutamine could help people with obesity reduce inflammation of fat tissue and reduce fat mass, according to ...
Eating too much — not exercising too little — may be at core of weight gain, study finds
Findings about children's calorie expenditure challenge conventional wisdom and may provide clues for reversing global trends in obesity, Baylor University ...
Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution
Findings give new insights into the connection between poor air quality, children's health, and mother's healthCredit: NIEHS A new report ...
First study on human-grade dog food says whole, fresh food is highly digestible
Credit: JustFoodForDogs URBANA, Ill. - Pet owners are increasingly treating their "fur-babies" like members of the family. In response, some ...
How does fat affect muscle function?
UMass Amherst researchers engaged in high-tech, multidisciplinary studyCredit: UMass Amherst From arthritis and heart failure to diabetes and menopause, many ...
Following the lizard lung labyrinth
Savannah monitor lizards have a unique airflow pattern that is a hybrid of bird and mammal flow patternsCredit: Robert Cieri ...
Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery
Credit: Bear Lab/ Picower Institute for Learning and Memory In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain's visual ...
Innovative research seeks to improve walking for children with CP
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Noelle Moreau, Ph.D., PT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at LSU ...
Tiny insects become ‘visible’ to bats when they swarm
3-D simulations could provide new insights into the evolution of bat echolocationCredit: Mor Taub. Small insects that would normally be ...
To the brain, straight from the vein: IV treatment for TBI
Data supports 'cell-free' exosome injection for traumatic brain injuryCredit: UGA A team of researchers from the University of Georgia's Regenerative ...
Running research: Heel-toe or toe-heel?
Credit: Unsplash New research from La Trobe University suggests there is no evidence that changing a runner's strike pattern will ...
‘Football as Medicine’
Prescribing football for global health promotionCredit: Bo Kousgaard The new book "Football as Medicine - Prescribing Football for Global Health ...
Antiarrhythmic drug identified as potential treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Findings reported in The American Journal of Pathology suggest dofetilide may counteract pathological changes in potassium channels associated with pulmonary ...
Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models
Credit: Picower Institute at MIT The sweeping extent to which increasing 40Hz "gamma" rhythm power in the brain can affect ...
New research seeks to improve safety equipment for pregnant women
UBC Okanagan engineer says not all body types are taken into accountCredit: UBC Okanagan As technology advances in the things ...
Using human bone remains to study predictable, postmortem microbes
$1.2 million from National Institutes of Justice to fund the workCredit: Colorado State University It's one of the most salient ...
New bone healing mechanism has potential therapeutic applications
Credit: Cell Stem Cell/the Park lab Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, a study published in the journal ...
Exercise yields some cardiovascular benefits in children with excess weight
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Eight months of daily, afterschool physical activity in previously inactive 8- to 11-year-olds ...
Dendrites filtering neuron’s excitement
Purkinje cell dendrites filter inputs into the cell, demonstrating a new learning mechanism in the cerebellumCredit: Kyoto University/Mindy Takamiya Kyoto, ...
