Researchers advance understanding of schistosome reproduction
Ancient Egyptian mummies revealed that humans have been hosting parasitic flatworms called schistosomes for more than 5,000 years. Today the parasites continue to plague millions of people across the...
View ArticleGut taste mechanisms are abnormal in diabetes sufferers
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered that the way the gut "tastes" sweet food may be defective in sufferers of type 2 diabetes, leading to problems with glucose...
View ArticleResearchers develop software tool for cancer genomics
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have developed a new bioinformatics software tool designed to more easily identify genetic mutations responsible for cancers. The tool, called...
View ArticleCalcium supplements may not prevent bone loss in women with breast cancer
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer are widely prescribed calcium and vitamin D supplements to prevent and manage osteoporosis, an unwanted side effect of breast cancer therapies. However, new...
View ArticleMolecular beacons light path to cardiac muscle repair
Pure cardiac muscle cells, ready to transplant into a patient affected by heart disease.
View ArticleWill companies drop health coverage because of Obamacare?
Will 2014 mark the beginning of the end for employer-sponsored health insurance as we know it?
View ArticlePredicting who will have chronic pain
Abnormalities in the structure of the brain predispose people to develop chronic pain after a lower back injury, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. The findings could lead to changes in...
View ArticleResearchers tease apart workings of a common gene
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered why a tiny alteration in a brain gene, found in 20 percent of the population, contributes to the risk for anxiety, depression and memory loss.
View ArticleThe higher the better? Intensity of training in CHD patients important to...
High-intensity exercise is shown to be protective against coronary heart disease (CHD) and is well known as a popular and time-saving approach to getting fit. But what about people who already have...
View ArticleFirst evidence that fear memories can be reduced during sleep
A fear memory was reduced in people by exposing them to the memory over and over again while they slept. It's the first time that emotional memory has been manipulated in humans during sleep, report...
View ArticlePlaying with blocks may help children's spatial and math thinking
Playing with blocks may help preschoolers develop the kinds of skills that support later learning in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), according to a new study by researchers at the...
View ArticleResearch finds new exercise benefit
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified an important new benefit of exercise: It increases the ability of skeletal muscle cells to remove damaged...
View ArticleOldest-old women less happy with husbands
Having a husband in old age doesn't necessarily make a woman happy, research from Flinders University reveals.
View ArticleWith population rise, natural laws purge nastiest genes
(Medical Xpress)—As human population grows, disease-causing genetic mutations per individual increase, but each mutation is less harmful, when compared with a population that is not growing, says a...
View ArticleResearchers examine metabolism in defective cells
University of Alberta researchers are taking a closer look at how two metabolic pathways interact to increase the lifespan of cells with mitochondrial defects. Magnus Friis is the lead author of the...
View ArticleRunning, combined with visual experience, restores brain function
(Medical Xpress)—In a new study by UC San Francisco scientists, running, when accompanied by visual stimuli, restored brain function to normal levels in mice that had been deprived of visual experience...
View ArticleNo extra mutations in modified stem cells, study finds
The ability to switch out one gene for another in a line of living stem cells has only crossed from science fiction to reality within this decade. As with any new technology, it brings with it both...
View ArticleSingle gene controls jet lag
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a gene that regulates sleep and wake rhythms.
View ArticleNeuroscientists decode conscious experiences with Hitchcock film
(Medical Xpress)—Western researchers have extended their game-changing brain scanning techniques by showing that a short Alfred Hitchcock movie can be used to detect consciousness in vegetative state...
View ArticleScientists discover a key to mending broken hearts
Researchers at the Salk Institute have healed injured hearts of living mice by reactivating long dormant molecular machinery found in the animals' cells, a finding that could help pave the way to new...
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