Research linking autism symptoms to gut microbes called 'groundbreaking'
A new study showing that feeding mice a beneficial type of bacteria can ameliorate autism-like symptoms is "groundbreaking," according to University of Colorado Boulder Professor Rob Knight, who...
View ArticleNew method to detect genetic defects in egg cells could double the success...
Infertility affects up to 15 percent of couples around the world, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) is one way to treat this common condition. A study published by Cell Press December 19th in the...
View ArticleNutrition influences metabolism through circadian rhythms
A high-fat diet affects the molecular mechanism controlling the internal body clock that regulates metabolic functions in the liver, UC Irvine scientists have found. Disruption of these circadian...
View ArticleScientists discover how immune cells die during HIV infection; identify...
Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system's CD4 T cells as an HIV...
View ArticleCocaine, meth response differ between two substrains of 'Black 6' laboratory...
Researchers including Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill, Ph.D., have found a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) difference in cocaine and methamphetamine response between two substrains of...
View ArticleResearchers show the power of mirror neuron system in learning and language...
Anyone who has tried to learn a second language knows how difficult it is to absorb new words and use them to accurately express ideas in a completely new cultural format. Now, research into some of...
View ArticleHow cells remodel after UV radiation
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in The Netherlands and United Kingdom, have produced the first map detailing the network of genetic...
View ArticleTB bacteria mask their identity to intrude into deeper regions of lungs
TB-causing bacteria appear to mask their identity to avoid recognition by infection-killing cells in the upper airways. The bacteria call up more permissive white blood cells in the deeper regions of...
View ArticleCancer therapy is 2013 breakthrough: Science journal
A way of fighting cancer that turns the body's immune cells into targeted tumor killers was named the breakthrough of the year by the US journal Science on Thursday.
View ArticleIn addiction, meditation is helpful when coupled with drug and cognitive...
Using a computational model of addiction, a literature review and an in silico experiment, theoretical computer scientist Yariv Levy and colleagues suggest in a new paper this week that rehabilitation...
View ArticleAnxiety linked to higher long-term risk of stroke
The greater your anxiety level, the higher your risk of having a stroke, according to new research published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
View ArticleBiologists find clues to a parasite's inconsistency
Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite related to the one that causes malaria, infects about 30 percent of the world's population. Most of those people don't even know they are infected, but a small percentage...
View ArticleFirst genetic model of a human jaw fusion defect known as syngnathia
The face you critiqued in the mirror this morning was sculpted before you were born by a transient population of cells called neural crest cells. Those cells spring from neural tissue of the brain and...
View ArticleProtein links liver cancer with obesity, alcoholism, and hepatitis
Obesity, alcoholism, and chronic hepatitis all increase the risk of getting liver cancer, which is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Obesity in particular is driving a significant...
View ArticleMapping objects in the brain
A brain region that responds to a particular category of objects is found to consist of small clusters of neurons encoding visual features of these objects.
View ArticleGenetic basis for memory formation has implications for neurological diseases
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have shown for the first time that two genes involved in many neurological diseases act together to regulate specific aspects of protein...
View ArticleClinical histories reveal surprising evidence of multiple, distinct 'autisms'
(Medical Xpress)—Simple patterns can emerge from even the most chaotic, complex data.
View ArticleNew study reveals insight into how the brain processes shape and color
A new study by Wellesley College neuroscientists is the first to directly compare brain responses to faces and objects with responses to colors. The paper, by Bevil Conway, Wellesley Associate...
View ArticleParasitic DNA proliferates in aging tissues
The genomes of organisms from humans to corn are replete with "parasitic" strands of DNA that, when not suppressed, copy themselves and spread throughout the genome, potentially affecting health....
View ArticleCommon disorders: It's not the genes themselves, but how they are controlled
Many rare disorders are caused by gene mutation, like sickle cell anemia. Yet until now the underlying genetic cause of more common conditions – for example, rheumatoid arthritis – has evaded...
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