Archive: 25/08/2017

Postpartum depression can affect dads – hormones may be to blame

Postpartum depression has become more visible as celebrity moms including Brooke Shields, Drew Barrymore and Chrissy Teigen have publicly shared their struggles with feeling sad and hopeless after birth. But when a father ...

Aug 25, 2017

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Pancreatic factor promotes remyelination in the central nervous system after injury

Brain functions are maintained by the neural network. Neural network is formed by the connection between the neurite, and this connection is supported by the wrapping of myelin. Demyelination is detected in the patients of ...

Aug 25, 2017

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Insight into brain's complexity revealed thanks to new applications of mathematics

The lack of a formal link between neural network structure and its emergent function has hampered our understanding of how the brain processes information. The discovery of a mathematical framework to describe the emergent ...

Aug 25, 2017

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Delivering medicine to cancer cells while protecting healthy cells

Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, have helped many people with the disease to live healthy lives. Nevertheless, chemotherapy takes a toll on the body. During treatment, chemotherapy attacks all of the body's cells, ...

Aug 25, 2017

Bacterial infection in exhaled breath

Although ethylene (or ethene) is best known as a plant hormone, humans also produce it as consequence of oxidative stress, caused, for example, by UV radiation from the sun. An international team led by Simona Cristescu from ...

Aug 25, 2017

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New chimeric antibody that suppresses malignant cancers in dogs

Similar to humans, dogs live longer than before and an increasing number of them die from cancer. As seen in humans, dogs have malignant cancers that cannot be treated by existing therapies such as surgery, radiotherapy and ...

Aug 25, 2017

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Lockdown genes to reduce IVF failure rates

Embryos kickstart a vibrant genetic program to thrive, but if the wrong genes are active the cells can self-destruct. A*STAR scientists have discovered one of the genes that needs to be tightly locked down for an embryo to ...

Aug 25, 2017

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Masking the bitter taste of antioxidant quercetin could enable its use in food products

Encapsulating the antioxidant quercetin in carnauba wax could mask its bitterness and enable its use in a wide range of food products, according to new research from Singapore.

Aug 25, 2017

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Computer algorithm links facial masculinity to autism

A link between masculine facial features and autism has been discovered by researchers from The University of Western Australia, Telethon Kids Institute and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

Aug 25, 2017

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Brain health researchers delve into dopamine

University of Otago researchers studying learning processes affected in brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have made new discoveries about how nerve impulses form ...

Aug 25, 2017

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