Archive: 17/11/2014

Working the night shift burns less energy and increases risk of weight gain

People who work the night shift are likely burning less energy during a 24-hour period than those on a normal schedule, increasing their risk for weight gain and obesity, according to a new study led by the University of ...

Nov 17, 2014

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Young vessels rejuvenate aged insulin-producing beta cells

A recent study published in the journal PNAS shows that young capillary vessels rejuvenate aged pancreatic islets. The finding challenges prevailing views on the causes of age-dependent impaired glucose balance regulation, ...

Nov 17, 2014

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Major brain pathway rediscovered after century-old confusion, controversy

A couple of years ago a scientist looking at dozens of MRI scans of human brains noticed something surprising. A large, fiber pathway that seemed to be part of the network of connections that process visual information showed ...

Nov 17, 2014

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Brain response to a 'lost' first language

An infant's mother tongue creates neural patterns that the unconscious brain retains years later even if the child totally stops using the language, (as can happen in cases of international adoption) according to a new joint ...

Nov 17, 2014

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First genetic-based tool to detect circulating cancer cells in blood

Metastasis is bad news for cancer patients. Northwestern University scientists now have demonstrated a simple but powerful tool that can detect live cancer cells in the bloodstream, potentially long before the cells could ...

Nov 17, 2014

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State-of-the-art integrated imaging system allows mapping of brain cells responsible for memory

Scientists from Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) in Japan have developed an advanced imaging system to identify cells responsible for storing memory within a tiny worm. Their study, ...

Nov 17, 2014

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Anti-leukemia drug may also work against ovarian cancer

An antibody therapy already in clinical trials to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) may also prove effective against ovarian cancer - and likely other cancers as well, report researchers at the University of California, ...

Nov 17, 2014

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Credit score can also describe health status

A credit score doesn't just reduce a person's entire financial history down to a single number and somehow predict their credit-worthiness. It might also be saying something about a person's health status, too, according ...

Nov 17, 2014

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Growth factor regenerates damaged nerves without sprouting new blood vessels

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found that a growth factor can regenerate damaged peripheral nerves without causing the growth of new blood vessels—making it a unique candidate ...

Nov 17, 2014

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Africans up to 13 times more likely to drown than Europeans: WHO

Africans—and young children especially—are up to 13 times more likely than Western Europeans to become one of the 372,000 people who drown each year, a study by the World Health Organization said Monday.

Nov 17, 2014

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