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Study reveals new mechanism that helps increase reductive power during high sugar intake

Animal diet has a tremendous natural variation, ranging from meat-eating carnivores to sugar-loving nectarivores. Omnivores, like humans, can adopt different types of diets and still remain healthy.

28 Jan 2017

Researchers highlight importance of large population studies for increased knowledge about disease

Per Magnus, director of the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study at the NIPH, together with two researchers from the UK and Denmark, have written a commentary article in the latest issue of the prestigious journal JAMA Pediatrics. The journal is published by the American Medical Association.

28 Jan 2017

Interventions that change the brain may promote resilience and improved mental health

In an article published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Dr. Bruce McEwen (Rockefeller University) analyzes promising outlooks that interventions that affect brain may have on health.

28 Jan 2017

Sighted people can be trained to use echolocation to estimate sizes of enclosed spaces

Humans can be trained to use echolocation to estimate the sizes of enclosed spaces. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich researchers now show that the learning process involves close coordination between sensory and motor cortex.

28 Jan 2017

Study shows evidence that intestinal microorganisms can serve as link between diet and colorectal cancer

A new study provides some of the strongest evidence to date that microorganisms living in the large intestine can serve as a link between diet and certain types of colorectal cancer, the lead authors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital report.

28 Jan 2017

Globe-trotting pollutants can last longer and travel much farther than previously predicted

A new way of looking at how pollutants ride through the atmosphere has quadrupled the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a pollutant caused by combustion, to a level that is now double the allowable limit recommended by the World Health Organization.

28 Jan 2017

Study provides insights into how visual and verbal creativity influence objective aspects of sleep

Do you ever dream of becoming the next Picasso? A new study at the University of Haifa comparing art and social science students has found that visually creative students evaluate their sleep as of lower quality.

27 Jan 2017

Study shows way to counteract junk-food eating cycle

People are easily pulled into binge culture's quick-fix obsession with junk-food. But, according to a study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, they might just as easily be able to pull themselves out of it.

27 Jan 2017

TSRI biologists identify brain hormone that selectively stimulates fat metabolism

Biologists at The Scripps Research Institute have identified a brain hormone that appears to trigger fat burning in the gut. Their findings in animal models could have implications for future pharmaceutical development.

27 Jan 2017

Chronic short sleep shuts down programs involved in immune response, study shows

Many people report getting sick when they don't get enough sleep. A new study helps explain why.

27 Jan 2017

Diet and antibiotic use can change gut microbiota contributing to IBS symptoms

A recent review of research suggests that changes to the microorganisms (microbiota) in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract may be a cause of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

27 Jan 2017

$Anti-inflammatory diet could boost bone health, prevent fractures in women$

Anti-inflammatory diet could boost bone health, prevent fractures in women

Anti-inflammatory diets - which tend to be high in vegetables, fruits, fish and whole grains - could boost bone health and prevent fractures in some women, a new study suggests.

27 Jan 2017

Human cells integrated into pig and cow embryos

Scientists have shown for the first time that undifferentiated human stem cells can be integrated into early embryos of both pigs and cattle. The construction of such interspecies embryos may represent an important development in the generation of organs for transplant.

27 Jan 2017

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Study reveals new mechanism that helps increase reductive power during high sugar intake

Researchers highlight importance of large population studies for increased knowledge about disease

Interventions that change the brain may promote resilience and improved mental health

Sighted people can be trained to use echolocation to estimate sizes of enclosed spaces

Study shows evidence that intestinal microorganisms can serve as link between diet and colorectal cancer

Globe-trotting pollutants can last longer and travel much farther than previously predicted

Study provides insights into how visual and verbal creativity influence objective aspects of sleep

Study shows way to counteract junk-food eating cycle

TSRI biologists identify brain hormone that selectively stimulates fat metabolism

Chronic short sleep shuts down programs involved in immune response, study shows

Diet and antibiotic use can change gut microbiota contributing to IBS symptoms

Anti-inflammatory diet could boost bone health, prevent fractures in women

Human cells integrated into pig and cow embryos

Researchers shed light on basis of Parkinson’s disease and other ‘synucleinopathies’

Researchers uncover how brain circuit elicits hunger responses during starvation

Fixations control responses of face cells, research suggests

LSD influences perception by stimulating serotonin receptors in the brain

Old tuberculosis drug improves impaired social behavior in autism mouse model

TSU scientists developing new method to treat autism and cognitive disorders

Johns Hopkins researchers create mature cardiomyocytes in the laboratory from stem cells

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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