The weather's not to blame for your aches and pains New research from The George Institute for Global Health has revealed the weather plays no part in the symptoms associated with either back pain or osteoarthritis. Jan 10, 2017 0 27
Difficulty in noticing that white people are white, new study finds Professor Peter Hegarty from the University of Surrey developed a celebrity guessing game in which participants were shown one of two groups of actors; Colin Firth, Kate Winslet and Jim Carey or Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman ... Jan 10, 2017 2 1
Alcohol prevents ability to extinguish fearful memories in mice Experiments in mice by researchers at Johns Hopkins suggest that if the goal is to ease or extinguish fearful emotional memories like those associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol may make things worse, not ... Jan 10, 2017 0 125
People with forms of early-onset Parkinson's disease may benefit from boosting niacin in diet, research suggests University of Leicester research team leads new study strengthening therapeutic potential for dietary interventions. Jan 10, 2017 0 4
Neurons modulate the growth of blood vessels A team of researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) shake at the foundations of a dogma of cell biology. By detailed series of experiments, they proved that blood vessel growth is modulated by neurons and not, ... Jan 10, 2017 0 36
Researchers discover possible self-organizing mechanism of neural connections Researchers have found that neural activity that retracts excessive early innervation in a certain pathway helps make late neural connections in a different pathway. This may provide a self-organizing mechanism of neural ... Jan 10, 2017 0 0
The importance of the glutamine metabolism in colon cancer The importance of glutamine was made clear as a colon cancer specific metabolism. It is known that glutamine metabolism is important for pancreatic cancer, but the importance of glutamine metabolism for colon cancer has been ... Jan 10, 2017 0 2
Identification of autophagy-dependent secretion machinery A group of researchers identified a molecular machinery by which autophagy mediates secretion. These results underscore an important role of autophagy other than degradation, and will bring us to future translational research ... Jan 10, 2017 0 0
Antiviral drug prevents recurrence of hepatitis C in liver transplant patients Patients with hepatitis C virus infection who received an antiviral drug around the time they underwent liver transplantation saw a high rate of sustained virologic response, according to a Northwestern Medicine phase II ... Jan 10, 2017 0 2
What you need to know to keep tabs on your sugar intake The consumption of sugar and its effects on health has been in the headlines in many countries around the world again as countries from the UK to South Africa debate a sugar tax. The Conversation Africa's health editor Candice ... Jan 10, 2017 0 0