Maltreatment can affect a child's psychological development. New research indicates that the stress of abuse can impact the physical growth and maturation of adolescents as well.
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While it has long been known that maltreatment can...
This image shows restored presence of proteins indicating myelin reformation (shown in red) in the lumbar spinal cord of a mouse treated with miR-219 mimic after injury to its central nervous system. Researchers report March 27 in Developmental Cell...
Red wine (stock image).
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Moderate drinking is associated with a lower risk of several, but not all, cardiovascular diseases, finds a large study of UK adults published by The BMJ (March 22).
The finding that moderate drinking...
Complete capsid of bacteriophage P22 generated with validated atomic models that were derived from a high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy density map.
Credit: C. Hryc and the Chiu Lab, Baylor College of Medicine
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) -- which enables the visualization of viruses,...
Disease spread can vary depending on the age at which individuals are exposed to infection, and the age at which females in the group become mothers.
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How a disease outbreak affects a group of animals...
This photograph shows two fast-aging mice. The mouse on the left was treated with a FOXO4 peptide, which targets senescent cells and leads to hair regrowth in ten days. The mouse on the right was not treated with the...
UChicago graduate student David Grossnickle explains key features that evolved to facilitate jaw yaw, or side-to-side movement that cows do, that allowed early mammals to expand their diet.
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You probably haven't given much thought to how...
Kenneth Tung, M.D., of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has discovered an unknown connection between men's testes and the immune system -- a link that could explain infertility and the failure of cancer vaccines.
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A study has traced the Pavlovian response to a small cluster of brain cells -- the same neurons that go awry during Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and Tourette's syndrome.
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In his famous experiment, Russian scientist...
Nina Jenkins, senior research associate in entomology, inspects bed bugs in a container. Jenkins led the development of a bed-bug biopesticide that overcomes insecticide resistance.
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A fungal biopesticide that shows promise for...
Left and right gonad tissues from the embryos 8.5 days after incubation. The number of cavities (lacunae, represented as arrowheads) is reduced in the AR knockdown embryos (B, D) compared to the control embryos (A, C). The scale bar...
