How extreme environmental conditions affect the human brain
Study from the Antarctic Neumayer-Station IIICredit: Photo: Stahn/Charité A joint press release by Charité and the Max Planck Institute for ...
Tag: Physiology
Multiple correlations between brain complexity and locomotion pattern in vertebrates
Researchers unveil multiple correlations between brain complexity and locomotion pattern in vertebratesCredit: Simone Macrì and Nicolas Di-Poï, University of Helsinki. ...
Alcohol tolerance may have saved our ancestors from extinction
Credit: Hockings & Dunbar The ability to process alcohol may have saved humanity's ancestors from extinction, a new book suggests. ...
Respiration key to increase oxygen in the brain
Credit: Handbook of Physiology, 1892 William Morrant Baker Contrary to accepted knowledge, blood can bring more oxygen to mice brains ...
Investigating the human intestinal mucus barrier up-close and personal
Personalized medicine approach using a human Colon Chip opens up gateway to study mucus barrier functions in patients with intestinal ...
Raising plants to withstand climate change
Proof of concept for changing mitochondrial respirationCredit: Flinders University Success with improving a model plant's response to harsh conditions is ...
Migraine headaches? Consider aspirin for treatment and prevention
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Migraine headache is the third most common disease in the world affecting about 1 in 7 ...
Protein defect leaves sperm chasing their tails
A team led by researchers from Osaka University identify a protein required for electrical signal sensing, which, when defective, causes ...
Sweet potato uses a single odor to warn its neighbors of insect attack
Odor induces a defense response in sweet potatoes to herbivores and protects other plants against potential invaders.Credit: Anja Meents, Max ...
New winter mountaineering project for Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger
A Eurac research study on acclimatisation and de-acclimatisation will take place in the terraXcube center for the simulation of extreme ...
16-million-year-old fossil shows springtails hitchhiking on winged termite
Credit: N. Robin, C. D'Haese and P. Barden When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that ...
How mantis shrimp make sense of the world
Researchers traced neural connections in a newly discovered brain region of mantis shrimp, gaining new insights into how the fierce ...
Downstream signaling: Cilia release ectosomes to deliver important messages in the kidney
Cilia play critical roles in sending and receiving signals from distant sites through mechano- and chemosensation and now through small ...
Babies in the womb may see more than we thought
Light-sensitive cells in immature retina are networked, suggesting bigger role in developing brainCredit: Image by Franklin Caval-Holme, UC Berkeley By ...
Germ-free lungs of newborn mice are partially protected against hyperoxia
A first-of-its-kind newborn mouse model will permit study of how to protect extremely low birth-weight infants from bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or ...
Dissecting connections between chronic stress, inflammation and depression
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 21, 2019) - Chronic stress can inflame our brain, destroy ...
How do gliomas evolve?
The Glioma Longitudinal Analysis (GLASS) Consortium finds longitudinal molecular trajectories of diffuse glioma in adultsCredit: JAX photo byTiffany Laufer. Until ...
Probing the role of an inflammation resolution sensor in obesity and heart failure
A mouse-model study of the sensor will aid the search for treatments to delay human heart failure, which often follows ...
Ammonia levels do not aid management of hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhotic patients
Ammonia is believed to contribute to the pathology of hepatic encephalopathy, but ammonia levels in the blood do not influence ...
Protein imaging at the speed of life
The European XFEL marks a new age of protein movie-making that enables enzymes involved in disease to be observed in ...
