A research team, led by Dr. Robert Nagele from Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and Durin Technologies, Inc., has announced the development of a blood test that leverages the body's immune response system to detect an early stage...
As the trace element zinc only exists in small amounts in an organism, it has to be consumed by way of nutrition. (Photo: Flickr/fdecomite)
The trace element zinc has an impact on the essential metabolic functions of most living organisms....
This map shows counties where Aedes aegypti was reported between Jan. 1, 1995, and March 2016. Counties shown in yellow had records for one year within that time period; those shown in orange had two years of presence records,...
Focus on low-fat diets and lack of differentiation between healthy and unhealthy fat has led to 'paradoxical policies' about healthy eating.
Eating a non-calorie restricted Mediterranean diet high in vegetable fats such as olive oil or nuts does not lead...
If you're an older adult, a 30-minute workout may not be as effective, even at the cellular level, as it was when you were younger.
According to a new study, age may play a significant role in a cell's ability...
Obesity is linked to changes in our gut microbes -- the trillions of tiny organisms that inhabit our intestines. But the mechanism has not been clear. In a new study published in Nature, a Yale-led team of researchers has...
Pregnant women with higher levels of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, proteins that control communication between cells of the immune system, may be at significantly greater risk of having a child with autism combined with intellectual disability, researchers with the...
Researchers have successfully reduced the symptoms and slowed the progression of Huntington's disease in mice using healthy human brain cells. The findings, which were published in the journal Nature Communications, could ultimately point to a new method to treat...
In an analysis of pregnancies in Australia from 1999 to 2014 in which women were taking anti-epileptic drugs, fetal malformation rates fell over time in pregnancies where only one drug was taken, but rates increased in pregnancies where multiple...
Fresh green tea leaves. Credit: © Wilerson S Andrade/ Flickr
A chemical in green tea has been shown to improve cognitive ability in persons with Down's syndrome, scientists and doctors said Tuesday.
In a year-long clinical trial, the treatment led to...
A fluorescent probe creates a heat map of copper in white fat cells. Higher levels of copper are shown in yellow and red. The left panel shows normal levels of copper from fat cells of control mice, and the...
