Monthly Archives: Agosto 2018
National Institutes of Health Roadmap Epigenomics Project has discovered that DNA methylation involved in...
Every cell in our body has the same set of genes, or genome, and can potentially become any type of cell. During development, the...
Pay attention to the ‘noise’ in your brain – reflects important changes in the...
ake a look at your favorite mug; it probably looks the same as it always has, but your neurons may not think so. Neurons...
Testing how well people remember past events in their lives could help medical professionals...
Researchers administered an "autobiographical memory" test to a group of 35 healthy adults, about half of whom carry the gene variant APOE e4—a known...
A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol
The study, published today in the international medical journal The Lancet, shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol...
Turning up the thermostat may help manage hypertension
Turning up the thermostat may help manage hypertension, finds a new UCL study into the link between indoor temperatures and high blood pressure.
Comparing blood...
Tobacco smuggling : research uncovers ‘one of the tobacco industry’s greatest scams’
Two new studies from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, published in the BMJ journal, Tobacco Control, expose evidence that...
Engineers at the center have taught a computer how to detect tiny specks of...
Doctors may soon have help in the fight against cancer thanks to the University of Central Florida's Computer Vision Research Center.
Engineers at the center...
Scientists at Harvard Medical School identity of the sensor protein responsible for hearing and...
Scientists at Harvard Medical School say they have ended a 40-year-quest for the elusive identity of the sensor protein responsible for hearing and balance.
The...
Chronic allergic inflammation in the sinus – conseguence of Cellular changes
Chronic rhinosinusitis is distinct from your average case of seasonal allergies.
It causes the sinuses to become inflamed and swollen for months to years at...
Scientists identified the function of a protein that has been confounding metabolism researchers for...
Scientists at the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt University have identified the function of a protein that has been confounding metabolism researchers for more...
For the first time scientists were able to specifically change the way the brain’s...
For the first time, scientists were able to specifically change the way the brain's memory centers form new memories, according to a new Northwestern...
Robots may hold the keys to social success for kids with autism
That's the takeaway from an experimental home-based therapy in which autonomous "social" robots modeled and encouraged behaviors like maintaining eye contact and paying attention...
Researchers has uncovered a destructive mechanism at the molecular level that causes a well-known...
They found that mice fed a high-fat diet produce an enzyme named MMP-2 that clips receptors for the hormone leptin from the surface of...
Combination immunotherapy shrank melanoma that has spread to the brain in more than half...
Combination immunotherapy shrank melanoma that has spread to the brain in more than half of the patients in a clinical trial reported in the...
A universal flu vaccine that protects people against most influenza strains is one step...
A universal flu vaccine that protects people against most influenza strains is one step closer to reality, with a study from the Perelman School...
