Monthly Archives: Marzo 2019
Discovered a gene mutation that cancel pain
A woman in Scotland can feel virtually no pain due to a mutation in a previously-unidentified gene, according to a research paper co-led by...
Virtual reality (VR) – New treatment for people with neurological disorders
Playing games in virtual reality (VR) could be a key tool in treating people with neurological disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.
The...
Researchers has developed a way to control swarming microrobots
A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China and Michigan State University in the U.S. has developed a way to...
Reducing debt improves psychological and cognitive performance
While many of the poor are burdened with debt, helping them financially is controversial, because their debts are often believed to result from bad...
Myoglobinopathy : new muscular disease caused by a mutation in the myoglobin gene
Researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) led by Dr. Montse Olivé have described in Nature Communications a new muscular disease caused by...
Offering kindness to others reduces anxiety and increases happiness
We all have a remedy – a glass of wine or a piece of chocolate – for lifting our spirits when we're in a...
Pregnant women who use cannabis increase the risk their unborn child will develop psychosis...
Pregnant women who use cannabis may slightly increase the risk their unborn child will develop psychosis later in life, suggests new research from Washington...
Runners: Burned old conviction on the cadence – there isn’t a magic number
Contrary to long-standing popular belief, running at a prescribed, one-size-fits-all "optimal" cadence doesn't play as big a role in speed and efficiency as once...
Researchers has developed an inexpensive, portable mini microscope
Working with mice, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has developed a relatively inexpensive, portable mini microscope that could improve scientists' ability to...
Researchers have identified the mechanism of impaired wound healing in diabetes
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a mechanism that can explain the impaired wound healing in diabetes which can lead to diabetic...
An international team has identified what triggers the boost to brain function through exercise
A discovery about how exercise improves brain function could be harnessed for research into ageing, and boosting learning and memory.
An international team from The...
Researchers have demonstrated that smoking is not associated with a higher risk of dementia
It's an irrefutable fact that smoking is bad for you.
Study after study has proven that smoking increases your risk for cancer, heart disease,...
Phenotiazines – antipsychotic drugs have successfully treated a form of meningitis
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in France has found that a class of antipsychotic drugs known as phenothiazines was successful in...
Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach cancer
More than half of the people in the world host colonies of a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori in their stomachs.
Although it's harmless to many,...
Prostate cancer cells change the behaviour of other cells around them helping the cancer...
Prostate cancer cells change the behaviour of other cells around them, including normal cells, by 'spitting out' a protein from their nucleus, new research...
