Purple grapes contain resveratrol.Image credit: Flickr/Stefano Mortellaro
In a study led by Barbara Driscoll, PhD, of The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, researchers demonstrate, for the first time that inhaled resveratrol treatments slow aging-related degenerative changes in...
For the most obese children, around 30-40% of their tendency towards obesity is determined by genetics and family environment, a new study says.Image Credit:Flickr/Thomas Hawk
Around 35-40 per cent of a child's BMI - how fat or thin they are...
People who have heart disease risks in middle age - such as diabetes, high blood pressure or smoking - are at higher risk for dementia later in life, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke...
Eating a Mediterranean diet could decrease the chances an overweight person will experience regular pain, a new study says.Image Credit:Flickr/mmtzphoto
Eating a Mediterranean diet could decrease the chances an overweight person will experience regular pain, new research suggests.
A well-established connection...
Average life expectancy is set to increase in many countries by 2030 – and will exceed 90 years in South Korea, according to new research. Image credit:Flickr/Tarcísio Taz
Average life expectancy is set to increase in many countries by 2030—and...
Women actively infected with genital herpes during early pregnancy had twice the odds of giving birth to a child later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity...
What are they going to be? Hematopoietic stem cells under the microscope: New methods are helping the Helmholtz scientists to predict how they will develop.Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München
Autonomous driving, automatic speech recognition, and the game Go: Deep Learning is...
Cancer cells respond to an optimal stiffness of surrounding ECM. If the collagen is too soft, it doesn't pull them hard enough to break cell-cell adhesion and leave the tumor. If it's too stiff, the pores in the ECM...
A University of Toronto (U of T) study on fruit flies has uncovered a gene that could play a key role in obesity in humans.
The paper published online this month in Genetics examines a "foraging gene" humans share in...
A new study underscores how advisable regular physical training at moderate intensity is for patients with systolic heart failure. Image credit: Flickr/whologwhy
Contrary to what was previously assumed, physical exercise does not lead to harmful ventricular enlargement. Researchers at the...
A stylized illustration of a peptide epitope extending from the N-terminal end of the HLA-I binding groove. Credit: Imaging CoE
Monash University (Australia) and Cardiff University (UK) researchers have come a step further in understanding how the human immunodeficiency...
