Mar 9, 2018 by News Staff

Recently acquired information is thought to be ‘reactivated’ in the sleeping brain. Sleep spindles — the short bursts of activity in the brain...

Mar 8, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of neuroscientists has shown that in the hippocampus — a brain region important for learning and memory and one of the key...

Mar 2, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an observational study published in the journal JAMA, varicose veins may be a warning sign of a type of blood clot known as a deep venous...

Mar 1, 2018 by News Staff

Vitamin D can’t be metabolized without sufficient magnesium levels, meaning Vitamin D remains stored and inactive for as many as 50% of Americans, according...

Feb 26, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists at Lund University in Sweden has found that certain amino acids in our blood can be connected to both obesity and the composition...

Feb 23, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by Harvard Medical School’s Joslin Diabetes Center has identified four viruses that can produce insulin-like...

Feb 22, 2018 by News Staff

By using cryo-electron tomography, an international team of scientists has identified a completely new nanostructure — named the Tail Axoneme Intra-Lumenal...

Feb 20, 2018 by News Staff

Cheddar Man — a hunter-gatherer who lived 10,000 years ago — had blue eyes, dark colored curly hair and ‘dark to black’ skin pigmentation,...

Feb 20, 2018 by News Staff

How will humans react to the discovery of alien life? Speculation on this topic abounds, but empirical research is practically non-existent. In a paper...

Feb 20, 2018 by News Staff

A new pilot study, carried our in Kenya, has found a link between chronic pain and consumption of monosodium glutamate, a common flavor and taste enhancer...

Feb 16, 2018 by News Staff

Women who regularly use cleaning sprays or other cleaning products appear to experience a greater decline in lung function over time than women who do...

Feb 15, 2018 by News Staff

Slowing down the speed at which you eat, along with cutting out after dinner snacks and not eating within two hours of going to sleep may all help prevent...

Feb 13, 2018 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by the University of Edinburgh has grown human egg cells (oocytes) — which were removed from ovary tissue at their earliest...

Feb 13, 2018 by News Staff

A study published in the journal EBioMedicine has shown the potentially negative impact of acetaminophen (paracetamol) — one of the most common medications...

Feb 13, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from Yunnan University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a new type of malleable, self-healing and...

Feb 12, 2018 by News Staff

An international research team led by University of Manchester scientists has generated human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce...

Feb 9, 2018 by News Staff

Chimpanzees’ overall intelligence is correlated to their ability to exert self-control and delay gratification, according to a study published in the...

Feb 7, 2018 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Hippocampus, spending too much time in dimly-lit environment may change the brain’s structure and hurt...

Feb 6, 2018 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine have discovered a link between rheumatoid arthritis and Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis,...

Feb 6, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by the National University of Singapore’s Cardiovascular Research Institute has discovered that chondroitin sulfates...