Archive: 04/05/2017

Subconscious brain and the neocortex mediated by the artistic impulse, paper suggests

New research suggests that art, music, and dance, which we perceive as unique to human beings are a natural adaptation wrought on the human brain by evolution that provides a subconscious way for the old brain, the paleoencephalon ...

May 4, 2017

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Team maps genome organization to link retinal development and retinoblastoma

A team from the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP) has mapped the intricate changes in the "epigenetic" organization of the nucleus to determine how retinal ...

May 4, 2017

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Breast-conserving surgery safer thanks to magnetic MaMaLoc technology

The Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam and the University Of Twente have developed a new localization technique for breast cancer that is based on magnetism.

May 4, 2017

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Smartphones new weapon in war against anxiety

New research has revealed that apps installed on smartphones can be used to significantly reduce anxiety.

May 4, 2017

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Imperial students collaborate on drug discovery for neglected diseases

Chemistry students are making compounds that may help treat diseases thanks to an open collaboration with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.

May 4, 2017

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Neural stem cell therapies could eventually play a role in treating spinal cord injuries

Researchers in Qatar and Egypt, working with colleagues in Italy and the US, have found that injured spinal cords in rats show signs of tissue regeneration several weeks following injection with neural stem cells.

May 4, 2017

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Study of blood vessel growth may open new pathway to therapies

A new Yale-led study detailing how blood vessels develop could lead to novel treatments of cardiovascular diseases as well as cancer.

May 4, 2017

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Research team finds no adverse risk to use of common antimalarials in first trimester of pregnancy

LSTM, University of Washington and international researchers publish the most comprehensive international analysis on artemisinin combination antimalarials safety in pregnancy

May 4, 2017

Weight-based teasing has long-term impact

A new study from researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut and the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota shows that weight-based teasing in adolescence predicts ...

May 4, 2017

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Physical activity rather than sedentary behaviour affects the risk of mortality

It is not the amount of time spent sitting still that matters. Instead, the extent of physical activity is essential in reducing the risk of elderly women developing cardiovascular disease, as shown in a new Örebro study ...

May 4, 2017

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