Monthly Archives: Marzo 2018
Can’t Sleep? It Could be Down to Genetics
Researchers have identified specific genes that may trigger the development of sleep problems, and have also demonstrated a genetic link between insomnia and psychiatric...
Feeling Anxious? Blame the Size of Your Waistline
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health disorders, and it’s more likely to affect women, especially middle-aged women.
Although anxiety can be...
APT Hackers Infect Routers to Covertly Implant Slingshot Spying Malware
Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a sophisticated APT hacking group that has been operating since at least 2012 without being noticed due to...
ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries
Governments in Turkey and Syria have been caught hijacking local internet users' connections to secretly inject surveillance malware, while the same mass interception technology...
How Dutch Police Busted Hansa Dark Web Marketplace
Hansa was once the second largest dark web marketplace after AlphaBay selling everything from illegal drugs to stolen databases, credit card information and malicious software.
But then...
New FlawedAmmyy RAT steals data and intercepts audio chat
The FlawedAmmyy RAT has been developed using the leaked source code of Ammyy Admin, a legitimate remote desktop software.
Proofpoint researchers have discovered a remote access...
Binge watching TV could increase bowel cancer risk in men
Sitting down to binge watch more than four hours of TV over a day could increase the risk of bowel cancer in men compared...
Gut microbes influence severity of intestinal parasitic infections
A new study indicates that the kinds of microbes living in the gut influence the severity and recurrence of parasitic worm infections in developing...
Liver study offers insights into hard-to-treat diseases
A key cell process that could cause damage to bile ducts and help explain some liver diseases has been identified by scientists.
Experiments showed that...
Inherited mutation leads to overproduction of EPO
A newly discovered hereditary mutation is responsible for an increased production of erythropoietin (EPO) in the blood.
This mutation causes a messenger RNA (mRNA) that...
New technique for creating lightweight materials that are stiffer and stronger than previously possible
Advances in materials engineering have led to the development of lightweight structures that are both strong and stiff, which are transforming aerospace, automotive and...
Serotonin Promotes Perseverance
What happens when serotonin levels increase in human brain?
How does this affect our behavior?
This is a question that highly interests neuroscientists:
serotonin...
Water’s mysterious phase transitions
Water, always important, always controversial, always fascinating, remains surprising. For a substance that is ubiquitous on Earth, three quarters of our planet is covered...
Cueing newly learned information in sleep improves memory, and here’s how
Scientists have long known that sleep plays an important role in the formation and retention of new memories.
That process of memory consolidation is associated...
Is your stress changing my brain?
In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at the Cumming School of Medicine's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the...
