This image is graph of the relationships between groups of bacterial species called OTUs found to occur together in mice either treated with antibiotics or not. This shows that antibiotic-treated mice (red) have a very different, and less diverse,...
How much protein should we eat after exercise? Credit: Image courtesy of University of Stirling
Sports nutrition recommendations may undergo a significant shift after research from the University of Stirling has found individuals with more muscle mass do not need...
Compared to other types of hydrogels being developed (left), a new hydrogel (right) can form crosslinks after injection into the heart, making the material stiffer and longer-lasting.Credit: American Chemical Society
During a heart attack, clots or narrowed arteries block blood...
Researchers tested their milk-protein film as a packaging for blocks of cheese.Credit: American Chemical Society
At the grocery store, most foods -- meats, breads, cheeses, snacks -- come wrapped in plastic packaging. Not only does this create a lot of...
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Getting some sleep in between study sessions may make it easier to recall what you studied and relearn what you've forgotten, even 6 months later, according to new findings from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association...
A new low-cost and non-invasive eye test could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms including tremors and muscle stiffness develop, according to new research in rats led by scientists at UCL.
Researchers at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have discovered a...
Dementia strikes one in 14 people in the UK over 65, and 47 million people worldwide.Yet scientists are still urgently trying to find why the disease affects some but not others.
Dr Ruth Peters, a neuropsychologist from Imperial College London,...
The ethnicity of women undergoing fertility treatments like IVF can affect the rate of successful live births, according to new research by experts at The University of Nottingham and the Royal Derby Hospital's Fertility Unit.
The research looked at nearly...
This graphic abstract represents the findings of Ryden et al, who performed transcriptomic profiling in adipose tissue from nonobese and obese subjects discordant in insulin sensitivity. The transcriptional response to hyperinsulinemia was similar among obese subjects and differed from...
Zika in the adult brain: Illumination of the fluorescent biomarker in green revealed that Zika can infect the adult mouse brain in a region full of neural progenitor cells, which play an important role in learning and memory.Credit: Image...
In a study being published in the August 19 issue of Science, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with scientists from Tartu University Hospital in Estonia, the Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life...
