In a series of recently published studies using animals and people, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have further characterized a set of chemical imbalances in the brains of people with schizophrenia related to the chemical glutamate. And they...
Recent research published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics offers one glimpse into how cutting calories impacts aging inside a cell.Image Credit: Flickr/jek-a-go-go
There's a multi-billion-dollar industry devoted to products that fight signs of aging, but moisturizers only go skin...
Charalampos Tzoulis is closer to solve the Parkinson´s riddle.Credit: University of Bergen
A new Norwegian study shows new mechanisms behind Parkinson's disease, which can be key mechanisms for future treatment.
More than 10 million people worldwide have Parkinson's disease. The cause...
The countries with the highest proportion of women who reported alcohol consumption during pregnancy were the UK (28.5 %), Russia (26.5 %) and Switzerland (20.9 %).
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A study among over 7000 women in 11 European countries...
A new protein which will help scientists to understand why nerve cells die in people with Alzheimer's disease has been designed in a University of Sussex laboratory.
In people with Alzheimer's, Amyloid-beta (Abeta) proteins stick together to make amyloid fibrils...
Melissa Benoit, with her husband Chris and their daughter Olivia, celebrates her 33rd birthday last November seven months after surgeons removed her severely infected lungs, replacing them with healthy donor lungs six days later.Credit: Courtesy Melissa Benoit
In a bold...
When we smoke cigarettes, dozens of genes important for immune defense are altered in the epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract. Now scientists report that vaping electronic cigarettes alters those same genes and hundreds more that are important...
A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are linked to individual differences in brain anatomy in autistic children.
Previous studies have reported differences in brain structure of autistic individuals. However, until now, scientists...
Modelled PM 2.5 concentration in the Augsburg area.Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München using data of GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2016
Exposure to air pollution at the place of residence increases the risk of developing insulin resistance as a pre-diabetic state of type...
In a major collaborative effort, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have for the first time eliminated replication-competent HIV-1 DNA -- the virus responsible for AIDS...
The first time Vayu Maini Rekdal manipulated microbes, he made a decent sourdough bread. At the time, young Maini Rekdal, and most people who head to the kitchen to whip up a salad dressing, pop popcorn, ferment vegetables, or...
