Monthly Archives: Giugno 2018
Around the world, people have surprisingly modest notions of the ideal life
It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to do so, whether it's...
A new study reports being married may be good for your health
Marriage may protect against the development of heart disease/stroke as well as influencing who is more likely to die of it, suggests a pooled...
Smart stent detects narrowing of arteries
For every three individuals who have had a stent implanted to keep clogged arteries open and prevent a heart attack, at least one will...
Country folk are being hit harder by the U.S. obesity epidemic than city dwellers
Nearly 40 percent of rural American men and almost half of rural women are now statistically obese, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Combining different malaria vaccines could reduce cases by 91 percent
Using two experimental anti-malarial vaccines, which work in different ways, can greatly reduce the number of malaria infections in animal studies.
Experimental vaccines, which independently...
Scientific Research has found that the introduction of alcohol to a Baka pygmy hunter-gatherer...
Fernando Ramirez Rozzi, a research director with the French National Centre for Scientific Research has found that the introduction of alcohol to a Baka...
Scientists uncover a factor important for Zika virus host species restriction
Princeton University researchers Qiang Ding, Alexander Ploss, and colleagues have identified one of the mechanisms by which Zika virus (ZIKV) circumvents immune control to...
A gene signature in the bloodstream could reveal whether someone is going to develop...
A gene signature in the bloodstream could reveal whether someone is going to develop active tuberculosis (TB) disease months before symptoms begin.
Such a signature...
Ex-CIA employee charged with leaking ‘Vault 7’ hacking tools to Wikileaks
A 29-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was charged with possession of child pornography last year has now been charged with masterminding the largest leak...
Peripheral inflammation is associated with brain connectivity and structure in those with rheumatoid arthritis
In patients with chronic inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, there has been limited understanding of how this inflammation affects the brain.
A new study...
How a Killer Fungus Unleashes Meningitis and Brain Infections
Published today in The American Journal of Pathology, the study was led by a team from the Westmead Institute for Medical Research and the Marie...
A new study could help advance research into pain and hypersensitivity to cold stimuli
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have mapped the feeling of cool touch to the brain’s insula in a mouse model.
The findings, published in the...
Electrically stimulating the brain may restore movement after stroke
UC San Francisco scientists have improved mobility in rats that had experienced debilitating strokes by using electrical stimulation to restore a distinctive pattern of...
A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary...
A research team at Massachusetts Eye and Ear has shown that microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain and retina, play a protective...
Apple macOS Bug Reveals Cache of Sensitive Data from Encrypted Drives
Security researchers are warning of almost a decade old issue with one of the Apple's macOS feature which was designed for users' convenience but...
