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According to Dr Kirsten Tillisch from the University of California Los Angeles and her colleagues, consumption of fermented milk products with probiotics can affect brain function (Catherine Jhee / CNS)

Study Reveals Changes in Gut Microflora Can Affect Brain Function

Jun 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new small study of healthy women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics has provided the first evidence that changing the bacterial...

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal (Neanderthal Museum)

120,000-Year-Old Tumor Shows Neanderthals Suffered from Cancer

Jun 7, 2013 by News Staff

The first definitive case of a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib from the site of Krapina in present-day Croatia reveals...

Nordic diet, rich in berries, fruit and vegetables, is associated with lower levels of 'bad' cholesterol and inflammation (Nino Barbieri / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Nordic Diet Lowers Bad Cholesterol, Finds Scandinavian Study

Jun 3, 2013 by News Staff

A healthy Nordic diet can lower ‘bad’ cholesterol levels and may reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a new Scandinavian study published...

Representation of changes induced by ShK-186 therapy in the diet-induced obesity model; mice were fed an obesity-inducing diet of high fat and high fructose; BAT - brown adipose tissue, or brown fat; WAT - white adipose tissue. The upper image shows the sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus (Sanjeev Kumar Upadhyay et al / James St. John)

Sea Anemone Venom Offers Promise in Fight against Obesity

Jun 3, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a research published online on May 31 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a synthetic compound originally derived from...

This micrograph shows methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Janice Haney Carr / CDC / Jeff Hageman / M.H.S.)

Receptor Proteins Hold Clues to Antibiotic Resistance in MRSA, Scientists Say

May 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers led by Dr Angelika Gründling from Imperial College London has discovered 4 proteins that act as receptors for an essential signalling...

According to the new study published in the FASEB Journal, riboflavin may mitigate the toxic effects of cyanide; the inset shows riboflavin powder (Fraser B et al / Patrícia R / CC BY-SA 3

Riboflavin May Be Antidote to Cyanide Poisoning, Suggests Zebrafish Study

May 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. researchers studying zebrafish have found that riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, may mitigate the toxic effects of cyanide. Zebrafish. The inset...

According to the new research, breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein, also known as the ‘good cholesterol.’ The inset shows structure of high-density lipoprotein (University of California Davis' Foods For Health Institute)

Car Emissions Turn HDL Cholesterol from ‘Good’ to ‘Bad,’ Mice Study Shows

May 23, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has found that breathing car emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein, sometimes called the ‘good...

Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Study Shows

May 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have unexpectedly discovered that vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria. This...

A captive American alligator in a defensive position (Ianaré Sévi / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Alligator Stem Cells Offer Hope for Tooth Regeneration in Humans

May 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists led by Prof Cheng-Ming Chuong from the University of Southern California has discovered unique cellular and molecular...

The image shows a healthy Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterial cell, upper left, next to a bacterial cell destroyed and lysed by the human milk protein complex HAMLET, lower right (Laura R. Marks)

Breast Milk Protein HAMLET Reverses Antibiotic Resistance in MRSA, Pneumococcus

May 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, a human breast milk protein complex called HAMLET can help reverse the antibiotic...

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that primarily affects the joints and surrounding tissue (Tulane University)

Fat in Knees May Trigger Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scientists Find

May 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the United States and Japan led by Prof Nirmal Banda from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found that fat cells...

Newly identified type of brown adipocyte (University of Gothenburg)

Brown Fat Cell Discovery May Lead to Treatment of Obesity

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

A new study by scientists at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, shows that humans have two different types of brown fat cells, not one as previously thought. Newly...

Parkinson’s Disease Protein Acts Like Virus, Study Shows

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...

Eritoran: New Drug for Influenza Shows Promise in Mice Study

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of researchers led by Prof Stefanie Vogel from the University of Maryland has found that an experimental drug called Eritoran can...

U.S.-Israeli team found that schizophrenia patients have elevated levels of a specific microRNA in the olfactory neuroepithelium (Patrick J. Lynch / CC BY 2.5)

Neurons in Nose Could be Key to Early, Fast Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Apr 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from Israel and the United States led by Dr Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method for physical diagnosis...

This false-color micrograph shows Clostridium bolteae (Brittany Pequegnat et al)

First Vaccine Against Autism-Associated Bacterium Clostridium bolteae

Apr 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of scientists from the United States and Canada has created a first-ever carbohydrate-based vaccine against Clostridium bolteae, gut bacterium common...

Homemade potato chips (Petr Brož / CC BY 3.0)

Study Explains Why We Can’t Stop after Eating One Potato Chip

Apr 23, 2013 by News Staff

A study conducted by researchers at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, sheds new light on the causes of hedonic hyperphagia, a condition that plagues hundreds...

Scientists at Loughborough University say there are six markers in the breath that could be candidates for use as indicators of stress (Greenville.edu)

Researchers Say Breath Test Could Help Identify Stress

Apr 19, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new pilot study conducted by scientists at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, a deep breath could become stress-detector. Scientists...

Left: schematic structure of a toxin nanosponge. Right: zoomed-in view of a single toxin-absorbed nanosponge, scale bar - 20 nm (Che-Ming J. Hu et al / Zhang Research Lab)

Nanosponges Could Soak up Toxins Released by Infections, Venom

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created ‘nanosponges’ capable of removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream,...