Women and people under the age of 35 at greatest risk of anxiety
Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to a review of existing scientific literature, led by the University of...
Helix Nebula: Photo Shows Nebula and Comet PanSTARRS in Close Proximity to Each Other
It's rare that such different objects are imaged so close together. Such an occasion is occurring now, though, and was captured two days ago...
Decade of hormone therapy reduces breast cancer recurrence: study
Micrograph showing a lymph node invaded by ductal breast carcinoma, with extension of the tumour beyond the lymph node. Credit: Nephron/Wikipedia
Doubling the duration of...
Long-term memory test could aid earlier Alzheimer’s diagnosis
People with Alzheimer's disease could benefit from earlier diagnosis if a long-term memory test combined with a brain scan were carried out, a study...
Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detection, study shows
The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to...
No sweet surrender: Glucose actually enhances self-control, study shows
In the age of the 'sugar tax', good news about glucose is hard to come by. But an Australian scientist has just proposed a...
Microplastic particles threaten fish larvae
Larval perch from the Baltic Sea that has filled its stomach with microplastic waste particles.Credit: Oona Lönnstedt
In a new study, published in Science, researchers...
Babies with Down syndrome have healthier hearts
Karyotype for trisomy Down syndrome. Notice the three copies of chromosome 21. Courtesy: National Human Genome Research Institute
Compared with the early 1990s, babies born...
Study shows how judgment of sensory simultaneity may develop in the brain
A new study in the model organism of tadpoles reveals how the brain develops the ability to sense when different sensory inputs are simultaneous...
Enzyme with high potential for new cancer treatment identified
A team of researchers from the Biology department at the TU Darmstadt has identified an enzyme that separates DNA replication from repair. This discovery...
New CRISPR system for targeting RNA
Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers University- New Brunswick and the...
