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Autism : no evidence of connection between testosterone and reduced cognitive empathy
It’s long been known that autism is far more prevalent in males than in females. What hasn’t been understood is why.
“Of course, the primary...
Immunological signatures can predict whether malaria-infected children will develop fever or other symptoms
Immunological signatures can predict whether malaria-infected children will develop fever or other symptoms, suggests a study publishing September 3 in the journal Immunity.
Surprisingly,...
Waning mumps vaccine : new strain of virus now circulating make the vaccine ineffective
Immunity against mumps virus appears insufficient in a fraction of college-aged people who were vaccinated in childhood, research from Emory Vaccine Center and the...
Schistosomiasis: a parasitic disease that affects more than 200 million people worldwide
No drug can cure a paradox. That basic truth is at the heart of a new Stanford-led study highlighting how poverty traps make it...
New research has confirmed that the presence of XX sex chromosomes increases the amount...
New research at the University of Kentucky has confirmed that the presence of XX sex chromosomes increases the amount of fat circulating in the...
In high-income countries deaths from cancer have become twice as frequent as those from...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the major cause of death among middle-aged adults around the world; however, in high-income countries deaths from cancer have become...
Exposure to nature has been shown to help improve depression and anxiety symptoms
Spending time in outdoors, taking time out of the every-day to surround yourself with greenery and living things can be one of life’s great...
Chronic cocaine use alters the epigenetic profile of the FosB gene in the hippocampus
Chronic cocaine use changes gene expression in the hippocampus, according to research in mice recently published in Journal of Neuroscience.
Chronic drug users learn to associate...
Artificial vision networks can learn to recognize complex images faster by using topological data...
A team of Italian mathematicians, including one who is also a neuroscientist from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon, Portugal, has...
Why do males tend to consider women with a lower waist-hip ratio more attractive...
Male turkeys famously will attempt to mate with a head on a stick.
In fact, gobblers prize a snug snood over the whole hen....
Pneumonia : Bacteria use hydrogen peroxide to weaken the immune system
Research shows that bacteria use hydrogen peroxide to weaken the immune system and cause pneumonia.
This according to a study at Umeå University and...
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) : Scientists identified three regions in the brain that fail...
For the first time, Northwestern Medicine scientists have pinpointed the location of dysfunctional brain networks that lead to impaired sentence production and word finding...
How popular drug can helps in heart failure ?
Results were released today from the first two clinical studies designed specifically to examine the effects of the heart drug sacubitril/valsartan on the structure...
Breast cancer medicines may force some cancer cells into sleeper mode
Breast cancer medicines may force some cancer cells into 'sleeper mode', allowing them to potentially come back to life years after initial treatment.
These are...
Researchers have found a new way of distinguishing cancerous from non-cancerous tissues
Researchers from Osaka University find a new way to distinguish individuals with early pancreatic cancer from healthy controls, representing a promising new metric in...
