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When certain retinal cells are exposed to artificial light late into the night, our...
For most, the time spent staring at screens—on computers, phones, iPads—constitutes many hours and can often disrupt sleep.
Now, Salk Institute researchers have pinpointed how...
Short home videos can be used to diagnose autism in children
Short home videos can be used to diagnose autism in children, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The research,...
A breakthrough study has demonstrated that long-term, devastating effects of spinal cord trauma on...
Millions of people worldwide are living with chronic spinal cord injuries, with 250,000 to 500,000 new cases each year—most from vehicle crashes or falls.
The...
Columbia neuroscientists have discovered why mitochondria are often strangely shaped inside the brain
Columbia neuroscientists have discovered why mitochondria, tiny power generators that keep our cells healthy, are often strangely shaped inside the brain.
Mitochondria, which exist by...
Researchers have found evidence of sCJD related prions in the eyes of patients
By the time symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) are typically discovered, death is looming and inevitable.
But, in a new study, researchers at...
How coaching moms and dads improves infants’ language skills
When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it's not just how much parents say, but how they say it.
Speaking directly to the...
Alcohol dependence, psychiatric disorders : researchers identified that share genetic links
In the largest study of genetic factors linked to alcohol dependence, an international team of researchers identified a gene known to affect risk, and...
Scientists found a way of making the white fat browner and provide a potential...
Our bodies contain two types of fat: white fat and brown fat.
While white fat stores calories, brown fat burns energy and could help...
An international team of researchers has developed a new method to assess the intelligence...
An international team of researchers has developed a new method to assess the intelligence and personality by analyzing neurophysiological data of the human brain.
Researchers...
Might people be more likely to help a stranger or donate money immediately after...
Might people be more likely to help a stranger or donate money immediately after watching the latest Marvel film?
Heroes demonstrate extraordinary courage, go to...
Researchers find new way detect early melanoma growth
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have added to evidence that measuring and monitoring tumor DNA that naturally circulates in...
Blood pressure: home detections are more accurate than office checks
Doctors could improve the care of high blood pressure by relying more on home blood pressure (BP) checks and not so much on the...
Studies have repeatedly linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with reduced sperm counts in male...
Studies have repeatedly linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with reduced sperm counts in male offspring.
Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has...
Israeli Scientist Developed Breath Test Device That Detects Diseases
Israeli Professor Hossam Haick of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology was awarded the European Commission...
How our boby create the long-term memory during sleep ?
A longstanding division exists between hippocampus-dependent and non-hippocampus dependent memory since only the latter can be acquired and retrieved in the absence of normal hippocampal functions.
In...
