Monthly Archives: Settembre 2018
Researchers have identified the variables that lead the brain to apply specific defensive strategies...
Though it has been many millennia since human lives were regularly threatened by predatory wild animals, the brain circuits that ensured our survival then...
Reproductive hormones control a woman’s monthly cycle and regulate fertility
Reproductive hormones control a woman's monthly cycle and regulate fertility.
Reproductive hormones are also related to how attractive a woman smells a study now shows.
Researchers...
Someday doctors may prescribe sugar pills for certain chronic pain patients based on their...
Someday doctors may prescribe sugar pills for certain chronic pain patients based on their brain anatomy and psychology.
And the pills will reduce their pain...
Older adults fitted with a cochlear implant to compensate for severe hearing loss have...
Older adults fitted with a cochlear implant to compensate for severe hearing loss have significantly poorer cognitive function than their normal-hearing counterparts, reveals a...
Study indicates that aging may have originated at the very beginning of the evolution...
A new USC Dornsife study indicates that aging may have originated at the very beginning of the evolution of life, at the same time...
Targeting a pathway that controls the movement of mitochondria could reduce cancer invasiveness and...
Targeting a pathway that controls the movement of mitochondria, the powerhouses of all cells, could reduce cancer invasiveness and resistance to radiotherapy.
A team of...
Brain has natural noise-cancelling circuit
To ensure that a mouse hears the sounds of an approaching cat better than it hears the sounds its own footsteps make, the mouse's...
Researchers unraveled the origins and identified mutations associated with a perplexing form of acute...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have unraveled the origins and identified mutations associated with a perplexing form of acute leukemia.
The landmark study appears...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) : you might not know that HPV also causes 70 percent...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is widely known to cause nearly all cases of cervical cancer. However, you might not know that HPV also causes 70...
University of Colorado Cancer Center study : New combination treatment targets pre-leukemia stem cells
Your body's blood cells are manufactured by hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow.
But just as regular, mature cells can become cancerous, so too can...
Discovered a previously unknown cell growth mechanism that makes a wide range of cancers...
Geneticists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a previously unknown cell growth mechanism that makes a wide range of cancers resistant to...
A simple blood test can detect the earliest changes caused by Huntington’s disease
A simple blood test can detect the earliest changes caused by Huntington's disease, even before scans can pick up any signs in the brain,...
Corruption is hard to hide if you’re a politician whose face is wide
An old joke says if you want to know if a politician is lying, see if their lips are moving. New research shows that...
Apple Removes Several Trend Micro Apps For Collecting MacOS Users’ Data
Apple has removed almost all popular security apps offered by well-known cyber-security vendor Trend Micro from its official Mac App Store after they were...
Researchers report a neural network called the isthmic system helps us to select visual...
We are almost constantly surrounded by a variety of visual objects, all of which could, theoretically, be important for us.
But only a very...
