A mother's high-fat diet during pregnancy could have a lasting impact on the bacteria living in her baby's gut, according to a study published in the open access journal Genome Medicine. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in the...
For the first time in history, people living in low- and middle-income countries have a higher prevalence of hypertension -- or high blood pressure -- than people living in high-income countries, according to new research in the American Heart...
The Scripps Research team succeeded in showing how experimental therapy ZMapp targets the Ebola virus, here targeting the virus's GP protein.Credit: Image courtesy of Andrew Ward and Jesper Pallesen
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) now have a high-resolution...
Engineer Jeffrey Rimer and collaborators have discovered a new molecule that has the potential to be a more effective inhibitor of kidney stone formation.Credit: University of Houston
Researchers have found evidence that a natural fruit extract is capable of dissolving...
HIV infecting a human cell. Credit: NIH
After fully sequencing the latent HIV "provirus" genomes from 19 people being treated for HIV, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that even in patients who start treatment very early, the only widely...
A new Kaiser Permanente study found that the risk of younger siblings developing an autism spectrum disorder is 14 times higher if an older sibling has ASD. The study, which was published today in Journal of Developmental & Behavioral...
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have made a major advance in understanding how the cells of an organism, which all contain the same genetic information, come to be so diverse. A study published today in...
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UCLA’s research introduced mindfulness training early in the recovery process with encouraging results. Credit: Bär Baer/Flickr
Study shows training is particularly beneficial for addicts who have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety
Meditation and other mindfulness strategies may reduce the...
Credit: University of Manchester
New research by University of Manchester scientists has for the first time shown that our spinal discs have 24-hour body clocks which when they malfunction, can contribute to lower back pain.
Lower back pain is amongst the...
New research published online in The FASEB Journal, describes a protein created by the body's "biological clock" that actively represses inflammatory pathways within the affected limbs during the night. This protein, called CRYPTOCHROME, has proven anti-inflammatory effects in cultured...
LOX-1+ PMN-MDSC in tumor tissues. Typical staining of tumor tissues. Scale bars, 100 μm. Credit: Condamine et al., Sci. Immunol. 1, aaf8943 (2016)
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a population of immune cells that have been implicated in tumor resistance...
