Study confirms link between omega-3 fatty acids and increased prostate cancer...
A second large, prospective study by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has confirmed the link between high blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids and an increased risk of...
View ArticleMayo Clinic researchers study how body can repair itself
At Mayo Clinic's Center for Regenerative Medicine, physicians and researchers have a dazzling array of tools at their fingertips: transplants, genomics, computerized data analysis and biomedical...
View Article3D-printed splint saves infant's life
Half a millennium after Johannes Gutenberg printed the bible, researchers printed a 3D splint that saved the life of an infant born with severe tracheobronchomalacia, a birth defect that causes the...
View ArticleNature's own nanoparticles harnessed to target disease
Using a novel form of immune-genetic therapy, researchers from Yale School of Medicine and the Jagiellonian University College of Medicine in Poland have successfully inhibited a strong immune allergic...
View ArticleMental performance of people who reach their nineties may be improving
People who reach their nineties today show improved mental performance compared to people in the same age group born a decade earlier, according to the results of a study conducted in Denmark and...
View ArticlePrisoners doing yoga may see psychological benefits
Yoga can improve mood and mental wellbeing among prisoners, an Oxford University study suggests, and may also have an effect on impulsive behaviour.
View ArticleParental divorce in childhood is linked to raised inflammation in adulthood
People who experience parental divorce during childhood have higher levels of an inflammatory marker in the blood which is known to predict future health, according to new research from UCL.
View ArticleStudy shows bilingual children have a two-tracked mind
Adults learning a foreign language often need flash cards, tapes, and practice, practice, practice. Children, on the other hand, seem to pick up their native language out of thin air. The learning...
View ArticleExtroverts have more sensitive brain-reward system
Extroverts may be more outgoing and cheerful in part because of their brain chemistry, reports a study by Cornell neuroscientists.
View ArticleCells make costume changes for cardiac regeneration
(Medical Xpress)—If the heart following a heart attack is not sufficiently supplied with blood, heart tissue dies. In adult humans, the ability to heal itself is hardly developed. Scientists from the...
View ArticleCells in the early embryo battle each other to death for becoming part of the...
Spanish researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have found that during the early stages of mammalian development, embryonic cells embark on a battle for survival....
View ArticleFirst estrogen receptor mutation found in a young woman
A receptor mutation that essentially blocks estrogen's action has been identified for the first time in a female, researchers report.
View ArticleCritical pathway in cell cycle may lead to cancer development
A team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has identified why disruption of a vital pathway in cell cycle control leads to the proliferation of cancer cells. Their findings on...
View ArticleCry analyzer seeks clues to babies' health
To parents, a baby's cry is a signal of hunger, pain, or discomfort. But to scientists, subtle acoustic features of a cry, many of them imperceptible to the human ear, can hold important information...
View ArticleThe brain is alive, will new MRI diffusion techniques let us see it move and...
(Medical Xpress)—Pioneering experiments back in 1982 by Tasaki and Iwasa at the NIH revealed that action potentials in neurons are more than just the electrical blips that physiologists readily amplify...
View ArticleNerves play key role in triggering prostate cancer and influencing its spread
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that nerves play a critical role in both the development and spread of prostate tumors. Their findings, using both a...
View ArticleGene therapy using lentivirus promising in three youngsters
Two Houston researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital were part of an international team that developed a new gene therapy approach to treatment of Wiskott-Aldrich...
View ArticleMetastatic pancreatic, primary breast cancer have common growth mechanisms,...
A recently discovered form of the protein that triggers blood clotting plays a critical role in promoting the growth of metastatic pancreatic cancer and primary breast cancer, according to the...
View ArticleStudy finds potential markers for severity of childhood arthritis
(Medical Xpress)—Children who suffer from arthritis could one day receive more targeted treatment thanks to potential markers for the severity of the disorder discovered by researchers at the...
View ArticleDaydreaming simulated by computer model
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have created a virtual model of the brain that daydreams like humans do.
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