Cash for weight loss? Works better when employees compete for pots of money,...
Do cash rewards for healthier habits work? Maybe, says a new study, if you add on one more condition – peer pressure.
View ArticleEating fish associated with lower risk of dying among older adults
Older adults who have higher levels of blood omega-3 levels—fatty acids found almost exclusively in fatty fish and seafood—may be able to lower their overall mortality risk by as much as 27% and their...
View ArticleNewly identified tumor suppressor provides therapeutic target for prostate...
Scientists at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) have identified how an enzyme called PKCζ suppresses prostate tumor formation. The finding, which also describes a molecular...
View ArticleHave asthma? You likely have an allergy as well
Asthma is becoming an epidemic in the United States. The number of Americans diagnosed with asthma grows annually, with 26 million currently affected. And according to a new study, nearly two-thirds or...
View ArticleComparing mouse and human immune systems: Few differences charted in map to...
(Medical Xpress)—It is a familiar note struck when authors conclude their reports on experiments conducted in mouse models: They suggest caution when translating their findings from mouse to human. A...
View ArticleMen's bowel cancer rates up by more than a quarter in last 35 years
(Medical Xpress)—Bowel cancer rates among men have risen by nearly 30 per cent in the last 35 years, while women have seen an increase of only six per cent, according to a new report from Cancer...
View ArticleResearchers pinpoint brain mechanisms that make the auditory system sensitive...
(Medical Xpress)—How do we hear? More specifically, how does the auditory center of the brain discern important sounds – such as communication from members of the same species – from relatively...
View ArticleNew diagnostic technology may lead to individualized treatments for prostate...
(Medical Xpress)—A research team jointly led by scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Los Angeles, have enhanced a device they developed to identify and "grab"...
View ArticleCholesterol rafts deliver drugs inside cancer cells
DNA, siRNA and miRNA can reprogram cancer cells – that is, if these nucleic acids could cross through the cell membrane. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal...
View ArticleAnything you can do I can do better: Neuromolecular foundations of the...
(Medical Xpress)—The existential psychologist Rollo May wrote that "depression is the inability to construct a future"1 while Lionel Tiger stated that "optimism has been central to the process of human...
View ArticleStudy reveals risk factors for blood clots in pregnant and postnatal women
Women who have suffered a still birth or have medical conditions including varicose veins, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or heart disease are at greater risk of developing dangerous blood clots...
View ArticleObama proposes $100M for brain mapping project (Update 4)
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke...
View ArticleRegular demands on attention and memory keep students on task in online...
(Medical Xpress)—Somewhere between the traditional classroom and old fashion home schooling, online learning has emerged as the dominant educational resource. Skyrocketing tuition, particularly at the...
View ArticleCells culled from adults may grow human bone
Preparations are underway for the first known human trial to use embryonic-like stem cells collected from adult cells to grow bone.
View ArticleStudy shows humans and apes learn language differently
(Medical Xpress)—How do children learn language? Many linguists believe that the stages that a child goes through when learning language mirror the stages of language development in primate evolution....
View ArticleCartilage damaged from exercise may aid in early osteoarthritis detection
Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder, affecting about one-third of older adults, and currently there is no cure. A study published by Cell Press April 2nd in the Biophysical Journal reveals...
View ArticleCholesterol-lowering eye drops could treat macular degeneration
A new study raises the intriguing possibility that drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol may be effective against macular degeneration, a blinding eye disease.
View ArticleSurprising findings in mitochondrial biology change long-standing ideas on...
New findings in mitochondrial biology thoroughly change the idea scientists had for 20 years on the role and importance of the protein MTERF1. For the first time, Max Planck researcher Mügen Terzioglu...
View ArticleResearch reveals how antibodies neutralize mosquito-borne virus
Researchers have learned the precise structure of the mosquito-transmitted chikungunya virus pathogen while it is bound to antibodies, showing how the infection is likely neutralized.
View ArticleLandmark study describes prostate cancer metastasis switch
Prostate cancer doesn't kill in the prostate – it's only once the disease travels to bone, lung, liver, etc. that it turns fatal. Previous studies have shown that loss of the protein E-Cadherin is...
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