Little-Known Protein Appears to Play Important Role in Obesity and Metabolic Disease
Scripps Research Institute via Science Daily – The discovery could lead to new approaches for addressing obesity and potentially many other diseases. To read the original article click here.
Hear This: Healthful Diet Tied to Lower Risk of Hearing Loss
Brigham and Women’s Hospital via Newswise – “The benefits of adherence to healthful dietary patterns have been associated with numerous positive health outcomes and eating a healthy diet may also…
Miniscule Robots Like “Magic School Bus” Could Clear Blood Clots
Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD via News Medical-Net – The team explains that pulmonary embolism could be just one of the uses of these miniature magnetically-controlled robots. There may be other…
Autism Study Tracks Musical Rhythm as Possible Treatment
Vanderbilt University Medical Center via Newswise – Preliminary data… suggests that when a caregiver sings to a child, children are more likely to attend to the eyes of the singer…
Good Noise, Bad Noise: White Noise Improves Hearing
University of Basel via Science Daily – White noise is not the same as other noise — and even a quiet environment does not have the same effect as white…
Science Underestimated Dangerous Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Michigan State University via Newswise – “Our findings debunk a common theory that suggests that attention is the only cognitive function affected by sleep deprivation…” Newswise — EAST LANSING, Mich.…
Artificial Pancreas May One Day Cure Diabetes
Brian Blum via Israel21c – The Engineered Micro Pancreas from Betalin Therapeutics is heading closer to clinical trials in humans. Ahead of International Diabetes Day, November 14, Israeli startup Betalin…
Link Between Inflammation and Mental Sluggishness Shown in New Study
University of Birmingham via Science Daily – Scientists have uncovered a possible explanation for the mental sluggishness that often accompanies illness. To read the original article and learn more about…
Dangerous Bacteria Send Out Warning Signals When Attacked by Antibiotics
University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences via News Medical-Net – “It is quite fascinating for us to see how the bacteria communicate and change behaviour in…
How the Brain Detects the Rhythms of Speech
University of California – San Francisco via EurekAlert – “What I find most exciting about this work is that it shows a simple neural coding principle for the sense of…
Military Researcher Explores Ways to Prevent Chronic Pain
University of Kentucky via Newswise – The ultimate goal of the study is to determine which factors are most influential toward the development of chronic pain, and then create a…
Chewy Chicken Breast? Scientists Now Know the Cause
University of Delaware via EurekAlert – If they can find common solutions, Abasht said, a far-reaching goal of the work might be to use chickens as a model to study…
New Route to Blocking Children’s Bone Cancer
ISRAEL21c Staff via Israel21c – An Israeli study in mice showed that reducing a particular hormone signal keeps Ewing sarcoma tumors from growing and spreading. Ewing sarcoma is a bone…
Best Practice Treatment Guidelines Help Doctors Identify and Treat Vaping-Associated Lung Injuries
Intermountain Medical Center via EurekAlert – As the outbreak of lung injuries and deaths associated with e-cigarettes, or vaping, continues to spread across the U.S., researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in…
Researchers Discover New Toxin That Impedes Bacterial Growth
McMaster University via Newswise – An international research collaboration has discovered a new bacteria-killing toxin that shows promise of impacting superbug infectious diseases. Newswise — HAMILTON, ON (Nov. 6, 2019)…
