Eating yogurt may help keep bones healthy. Credit: © Monkey Business / Fotolia The largest observational study to date of dairy intakes and bone and frailty measurements in older adults has found that increased yogurt consumption was associated with a higher...
This bright-field microscopic image shows a three-day-old human liver organoid grown by scientists who report research results in Nature. The tiny liver -- suspended in solution inside an under-lit petri dish well -- is about 10mm wide. Generated from...
New research sheds light on how obesity increases the risk of cancer. Credit: © hin255 / Fotolia It's been well established that obesity is a contributor to cancer risk, but how it actually causes cancer is still a question...
Measles is the fifth vaccine-preventable disease to be eliminated from the Americas, after the regional eradication of smallpox in 1971, poliomyelitis in 1994, and rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in 2015.Credit: © julien_harneis / Flickr The Region of the Americas...
Research by scientists in the US and UK has estimated that up to 1.65 million childbearing women in Central and South America could become infected by the Zika virus by the end of the first wave of the epidemic. Researchers...
Study participants in a series of experiments conducted by Cameron Anderson, a professor of management at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and Aaron Lukaszewski, an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, overwhelmingly equated physical strength with higher status...
Virus' envelope. Its unusual structure, never before seen in nature, could let scientists develop super-durable materials and better treat disease. Credit: Credit Courtesy the study authors/eLife It's like the Superman of viruses, astonishingly tough and able to survive in an environment...
Image credit: © andrein/ Flickr Using archival documents, a new report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine examines the sugar industry's role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the industry sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast...
Total sleep deprivation or partial sleep deprivation can produce clinical improvement in depression symptoms within 24 hours. Credit: © igorp17 / Fotolia Sleep deprivation -- typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings -- rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of...
Urban air pollution in the city of Beirut. Credit: © disq / Fotolia Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health that has released a report detailing the...
An MIT study of the neural circuits that underlie memory process reveals, for the first time, that memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and the long-term storage location in the brain’s cortex. This image shows memory engram cells...