A team of U.S. bioengineers has developed a glucose-responsive insulin patch that could one day monitor and manage glucose levels in people with diabetes....
Despite claims that owning a gun makes a person feel safer and sleep easier, gun owners don’t sleep any better than people who do not own guns, they...
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research, the Queen’s Medical Research Institute Edinburgh, and Roslin...
In a retrospective case series, an international team of radiologists has reviewed chest CT scans of 21 symptomatic patients from China infected with the...
Using a novel method for detecting Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans, a team of U.S. researchers has demonstrated that remnants of Neanderthal genomes...
Cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus have increased dramatically over the past week, prompting concerns about how contagious the virus is and how it spreads....
A team of scientists has developed visualizing paper-based bandages that can sense drug-resistant and drug-sensitive bacteria in wounds and implement a...
Light exposure regulates how two kinds of fat cells (adipocytes) work together to produce the raw materials that all other cells use for energy, according...
A research team headed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has discovered that a combination of two molecules, alpha-KLOTHO (αKLOTHO)...
Mitochondria are considered as the power-generating units of the cell due to their key role in energy metabolism and intercellular communication. However,...
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that men born in the United States in the early 19th century had temperatures 0.59...
Foods high in sucrose, or table sugar, influence brain reward circuitry in ways similar to those observed when addictive drugs are consumed, according...
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers examined the feelings evoked by 2,168...
Using large prospective cohorts among Chinese adults, a research team led by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College has...
A team of researchers has discovered several hundreds of new negative strand RNA viruses and at least 20 viral genera in insects.
Phylogeny of negative...
Archaeologists have unearthed 170,000-year-old whole, charred rhizomes of flowering plants from the genus Hypoxis in a cave in southern Africa. These botanical...
Long-term treatment with lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) juice lowered the already elevated blood pressure and improved the function of blood vessels...
![Winterdahl et al investigated the effects of sucrose using positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging with [11C]carfentanil (μ-opioid receptor agonist) and [11C]raclopride (dopamine D2/3 receptor antagonist) in seven female anesthetized Göttingen minipigs. Image credit: Winterdahl et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53430-9.](https://cdn.sci.news/images/2020/01/image_8019-Sugar-Brain-195x110.jpg)
