Archive: 25/06/2015

New and innovative approach for successful vaccination against chlamydia infections

chlamydiae are the most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogens in the world. Every year, around 100 million people contract chlamydia infections, which are one of the main causes of female infertility and ectopic ...

Jun 25, 2015

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Researchers question what happens in the brain when we think

New research from Lund University in Sweden questions the prevailing doctrine on how the brain absorbs and processes information. The idea that the brain has a mechanism to maintain activity at the lowest possible level is ...

Jun 25, 2015

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Polish parliament passes law regulating IVF (Update)

Poland's parliament adopted a law Thursday on in vitro fertilisation (IVF), which was previously allowed in the mostly Catholic country but remained unregulated because of opposition from the right and the Church.

Jun 25, 2015

Top athletes don't share a single talent gene, but hundreds of them

When this year's Wimbledon tennis championship begins on June 29, British hopes will again be pinned on Andy Murray. Only time will tell if he can kick on from his Queen's Club victory and win the UK's premier tennis tournament ...

Jun 25, 2015

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Fructose stimulates brain's reward system to a lesser degree than glucose

Fructose not only results in a lower level of satiety, it also stimulates the reward system in the brain to a lesser degree than glucose. This may cause excessive consumption accompanied by effects that are a risk to health, ...

Jun 25, 2015

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Researchers survey the epigenetic diversity of neurons

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have profiled key features of the genetic material inside three types of brain cells and found vast differences in the patterns of chemical modifications that affect how the ...

Jun 25, 2015

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Nature's lubricant makes your body a well-oiled machine

The old adage goes that the human body is a machine. And in many ways that isn't far from the truth. Like any machine, the human body is made up of many individual parts moving together in a highly coordinated fashion. Parts ...

Jun 25, 2015

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Therapy affects the brain of people with Tourette syndrome

In addition to its effect on chronic tics, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can change the brain function of people with Tourette syndrome. This is what is revealed in a study by researchers at the Institut universitaire ...

Jun 25, 2015

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New nanotechnology drug to control blindness

The Mexican company "Medical and Surgical Center for Retina" has created a way to deliver drugs in order to avoid risks and painful treatments in people with secondary blindness due to chronic degenerative blindness such ...

Jun 25, 2015

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How does the brain recognize faces from minimal information?

Our brain recognizes objects within milliseconds, even if it only receives rudimentary visual information. Researchers believe that reliable and fast recognition works because the brain is constantly making predictions about ...

Jun 25, 2015

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