Public Release: 14-Mar-2018 University of Melbourne research reveals that one in four Americans report chemical sensitivity, with nearly half this group medically diagnosed with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), suffering health problems from exposure to common chemical product University of… Read More ›
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Humans flourished through super volcano 74,000 years ago, study finds
Public Release: 14-Mar-2018 How a vacation in South Africa, a one-of-its-kind UNLV lab, and pieces of volcanic glass smaller than a grain of salt changed a long-held view of human history University of Nevada, Las Vegas Our ancestors not… Read More ›
Toothpaste shown to speed enamel erosion?
Enamel surface loss (SL) after each cycle, for anti-erosive toothpastes (light grey lines represent the control groups). Public Release: 13-Mar-2018 Toothpaste alone does not prevent dental erosion or hypersensitivity An analysis of nine toothpastes found that none of them… Read More ›
Can pursuing happiness make you unhappy?
Public Release: 12-Mar-2018 Researchers show that aiming to achieve happiness can affect your perception of time Springer People generally like to feel happy, but achieving a state of happiness takes time and effort. Researchers have now found that people… Read More ›
Babies fed soy-based formula have changes in reproductive system tissues
Public Release: 12-Mar-2018 CHOP co-author of NIH-led study: Subtle estrogen-like responses in infants point to need for longer-term follow-up of effects Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Infants who consumed soy-based formula as newborns had differences in some reproductive-system cells… Read More ›
Is your stress changing my brain?
Is your stress changing my brain? Scientists have discovered that stress transmitted from others can change the brain in the same way as a real stress does. Social transmission and buffering of synaptic changes after stress. Nature Neuroscience, 2018; DOI:… Read More ›
On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
Public Release: 8-Mar-2018 Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information Massachusetts Institute of Technology Caption Pictured (left to right): Seated, Soroush Vosoughi, a postdoc at the Media Lab’s Laboratory for Social Machines; Sinan… Read More ›
Commercial pesticides: Not as safe as they seem
Public Release: 8-Mar-2018 Lack of information on the effects of all pesticide ingredients makes them appear safer than they are — potentially causing serious harm to people and the environment. Frontiers New regulations are needed to protect people… Read More ›
Is your stress changing my brain?
Public Release: 8-Mar-2018 University of Calgary researchers discover stress isn’t just contagious; it alters the brain on a cellular level University of Calgary In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at the Cumming… Read More ›
US cancer treatment guidelines ‘often based on weak evidence’
Public Release: 7-Mar-2018 Findings question the underlying evidence for current guidelines BMJ Cancer treatment guidelines produced by the US National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) are often based on low quality evidence or no evidence at all, finds a study… Read More ›
Rutin a Powerful Metabolism Activator
Rutin a Powerful Metabolism Activator Rutin a Powerful Metabolism ActivatorRutin has been discovered to dramatically activate the BAT (brown adipose tissue) in our bodies to increase metabolism and facilitate weight loss.Citation: Rutin ameliorates obesity through brown fat activation. The FASEB… Read More ›
High total cholesterol in late old age may be marker of protective factor
Public Release: 5-Mar-2018 Risk of cognitive decline reduced for people 85 and older with high cholesterol High total cholesterol in late old age may be marker of protective factor The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine … Read More ›
US healthcare system needs coordinated response to potential pediatric pandemics
Public Release: 5-Mar-2018 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles IMAGE: This is an image of Jeffrey Upperman, MD, and Rita V. Burke, PhD, MPH. Credit: Photo courtesy of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have… Read More ›
Gluten Correlated with Neuropathic Pain
Gluten Correlated with Neuropathic Pain Researchers observed people who were following a gluten-free diet were dramatically more likely to be free of pain Gluten Neuropathy: Prevalence of Pain and the Role of Gluten-Free Diet. To be presented at the American… Read More ›
Backyard chickens need more regulation
Public Release: 2-Mar-2018 Safety of birds, people at stake, a UC Davis study suggests University of California – Davis IMAGE: These are baby Chicks. UC Davis Photo Credit: UC Davis Historically, keeping backyard chickens was a response to economic hardship… Read More ›
Food abundance driving conflict in Africa, not food scarcity
Public Release: 1-Mar-2018 Dartmouth College In Africa, food abundance may be driving violent conflict rather than food scarcity, according to a study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, a publication of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association…. Read More ›
Small Pox produced with mail order DNA and step by step instructions are online
Public Release: 1-Mar-2018 Planning for smallpox outbreak must consider immunosuppression University of New South Wales Unprecedented levels of immunosuppression in countries like Australia and the US must be considered in planning for the real risk of smallpox re-emerging in the… Read More ›
Low magnesium levels make vitamin D ineffective
Low magnesium levels make vitamin D ineffective Low magnesium levels make vitamin D ineffective A review published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association found Vitamin D can’t be metabolized without sufficient magnesium levels, meaning Vitamin D remains stored… Read More ›
‘Obesity paradox’ debunked
Public Release: 28-Feb-2018 Obese people really don’t live longer than normal weight people with heart disease, they’re just diagnosed at a younger age Northwestern University Maintaining a normal weight can postpone cardiovascular disease and reduce overall risk of it… Read More ›
Forage-based diets on dairy farms produce nutritionally enhanced milk
Public Release: 28-Feb-2018 Markedly higher levels of health-promoting fatty acids reported University of Minnesota MORRIS, MINNESOTA – Omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids are essential human nutrients, yet consuming too much omega-6 and too little omega-3 can increase the risk… Read More ›
Our reactions to odor reveal our political attitudes
Public Release: 27-Feb-2018 Stockholm University IMAGE: These are researchers at the smell laboratory at Stockholm university. Jonas Olofsson standing. Credit: Niklas Björling People who are easily disgusted by body odours are also drawn to authoritarian political leaders. A… Read More ›
Survey shows Democrats and Republicans agree on Congress
Public Release: 27-Feb-2018 Members pay attention to wrong groups when voting NORC at the University of Chicago Democrats and Republicans disapprove of Congress because members are paying attention to the wrong people and groups when casting votes, according to a… Read More ›
Health staff ‘too stressed’ to deal with disasters
Public Release: 26-Feb-2018 Research finds day-to-day workloads and targets leave healthcare services vulnerable Anglia Ruskin University Increasing stress and a lack of motivation among healthcare staff could result in hospitals having to shut down in the wake of a… Read More ›
Herpes Virus Cleared from Cells BX795
Herpes Virus Cleared from Cells BX795 Herpes Virus Cleared from Cells BX795 From a completely accidental discovery: “BX795 is known as an inhibitor of TBK1, an enzyme involved in innate immunity and neuroinflammation. When TBK1 is suppressed in cells, infection… Read More ›
MSG Correlated with Chronic Pain
MSG Correlated with Chronic Pain In a new pilot study in chronic pain sufferers, hydration in combination with replacing MSG as a spice resulted in an equal to or greater than a 30% reduction of pain in two weeks outperforming … Read More ›
Some black holes erase your past
Public Release: 20-Feb-2018 Einstein’s equations allow a non-determinist future inside some black holes University of California – Berkeley Caption A spacetime diagram of the gravitational collapse of a charged spherical star to form a charged black hole. An observer… Read More ›
When it comes to our brains, there’s no such thing as normal
Public Release: 20-Feb-2018 Cell Press There’s nothing wrong with being a little weird. Because we think of psychological disorders on a continuum, we may worry when our own ways of thinking and behaving don’t match up with our idealized… Read More ›
Can your cardiac device be hacked?
Public Release: 20-Feb-2018 ACC Electrophysiology Council discusses potential dangers and offers advice to patients and physicians American College of Cardiology WASHINGTON (Feb. 20, 2017) — Medical devices, including cardiovascular implantable electronic devices could be at risk for hacking. In… Read More ›
Viruses sprayed on food to help prevent food poisoning
Public Release: 20-Feb-2018 Bacteria-eaters to prevent food poisoning? Phages eliminate Yersinia from food University of Helsinki IMAGE: “Our study can serve as a model for the prevention of other, more serious foodborne infections through phage treatment, ” says Professor… Read More ›
Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics
Public Release: 19-Feb-2018 University of Cambridge IMAGE: The Fake News Game as it appears on the screen of a smart phone. The game only take a few minutes to complete. Credit: DROG/www.fakenewsgame.org A new online game puts players in… Read More ›
Workplace alcohol not always a perk for recent college grads seeking jobs
Public Release: 19-Feb-2018 Oregon State University IMAGE: Still image to accompany new research on alcohol in the workplace. Credit: Oliver Day, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Offering alcohol to employees in the workplace may be a trendy… Read More ›
Indoor lighting Drastically Inhibits Learning and Memory
Indoor lighting Drastically Inhibits Learning and Memory The hippocampus lost about 30 percent of capacity in low light in just 4 weeks as well as a steep decline in brain derived neurotrophic factor (Animal Model) * Grass rats were… Read More ›
Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life
Public Release: 16-Feb-2018 Arizona State University As humans reach out technologically to see if there are other life forms in the universe, one important question needs to be answered: When we make contact, how are we going to… Read More ›
Stem cell vaccine immunizes lab mice against multiple cancers
Public Release: 15-Feb-2018 Cell Press Public Release: 15-Feb-2018 Stem cell vaccine immunizes lab mice against multiple cancers Cell Press Share Print E-Mail Caption This visual abstract depicts how cancer immunity against multiple types of cancer can… Read More ›
New CRISPR-Cas9 tool edits both RNA and DNA precisely, U-M team reports
Public Release: 15-Feb-2018 A Cas9 protein discovered in meningitis bacteria can act as precise ‘scissors’ for both types of genetic material, cutting at a desired spot guided by CRISPR RNAs Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan IMAGE: A… Read More ›
Total Pain Remission with Cold Open Water Swim
Total Pain Remission with Cold Open Water Swim A short, sharp, cold water swim may offer an alternative to strong painkillers and physiotherapy to relieve severe persistent pain after surgery, suggest doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports. Cold forced… Read More ›
Living human tracheas
Public Release: 14-Feb-2018 Case Western Reserve University researchers engineer natural windpipe replacement alternative to synthetic scaffolding now being used Case Western Reserve University Biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three… Read More ›
Medical care for wounded ants
Public Release: 13-Feb-2018 University of Würzburg The African Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) tend to the wounds of their injured comrades. And they do so rather successfully: Without such attendance, 80 percent of the injured ants die; after receiving “medical”… Read More ›
Heroin vaccine blocks lethal overdose
Public Release: 13-Feb-2018 Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA – Feb. 13, 2018 -Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe and effective vaccine to both treat heroin addiction and block… Read More ›
BU: One or more soda a day could decrease chances of getting pregnant
Public Release: 13-Feb-2018 Boston University School of Medicine The amount of added sugar in the American diet has increased dramatically over the last 50 years. Much of that increase comes from higher intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, which constitute approximately… Read More ›
Money only buys happiness for a certain amount
Public Release: 13-Feb-2018 Research looks at how much money makes individuals around the world happy Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — There is an optimal point to how much money it takes to make an individual happy, and that… Read More ›
Opioid use increases risk of serious infections
Public Release: 12-Feb-2018 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Opioid users have a significantly increased risk of infections severe enough to require treatment at the hospital, such as pneumonia and meningitis, as compared to people who don’t use opioids. The Vanderbilt… Read More ›
Using injectable self-assembled nanomaterials for sustained delivery of drugs
Public Release: 12-Feb-2018 New injectable delivery system can slowly release drug carriers for months Northwestern University Because they can be programmed to travel the body and selectively target cancer and other sites of disease, nanometer-scale vehicles called nanocarriers can… Read More ›
Herbicides now resulting in catastrophic failures
Public Release: 12-Feb-2018 Weeds out of control Spraying weeds with chemicals has always been costly. Now it is costly and ineffective, with resistance to herbicides pervasive and demanding a new strategy to protect crops. Rothamsted Research IMAGE: Black-grass, a pervasive… Read More ›
Scientists halt breast cancer spread
Scientists halt breast cancer spread Scientists have discovered that an amino acid called asparagine is essential for breast cancer spread, and by restricting it, cancer cells stopped invading other parts of the body in mice, according to new research…. Read More ›
Chicken pox vaccine linked with shingles at the vaccination site in some children
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/pde.13415/full Public Release: 9-Feb-2018 Wiley New research in Pediatric Dermatology reports several cases of shingles that developed at the original vaccination site in healthy children after they were immunized against chicken pox. Most of these cases were initially misdiagnosed as… Read More ›
Insulin Resistance Reversed With CoQ10
Insulin Resistance Reversed With CoQ10 Researchers discover that CoQ10 plays a pivotal role in the prevention and possible reversal of diabetes in regard to insulin resistance. Citation: Mitochondrial CoQ deficiency is a common driver of mitochondrial oxidants and insulin resistance…. Read More ›
Super wood could replace steel
Public Release: 7-Feb-2018 New process could make wood as strong as titanium alloys but lighter & cheaper University of Maryland Caption Liangbing Hu, left, and Teng Li, right, are engineers at the University of Maryland, College Park who… Read More ›
Mouse study reveals what happens in the gut after too much fructose
Public Release: 6-Feb-2018 Cell Press Caption This graphical abstract depicts the findings of Jang et al., which show that it is actually the small intestine that clears most dietary fructose, and this is enhanced by feeding. High fructose doses… Read More ›
Methylene blue cured patients of Malaria in two days
Public Release: 5-Feb-2018 Dye kills malaria parasites at speed not seen before Radboud University Nijmegen Research shows that the dye methylene blue is a safe antimalarial that kills malaria parasites at an unprecedented rate. Within two days, patients are cured… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 