Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children
Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children, according to an international study led by USC scientists.
The finding is a turnabout for...
Inflammation in the womb may explain link between prenatal inflammation and postnatal immune status
Each year 15 million infants are born preterm and face high risks of short- and long-term complications, including sepsis, severe inflammation of the gut,...
Researchers has found genetic risk factor for erectile dysfunction
For the first time, a team of researchers has found a specific place in the human genome that raises a person's risk of erectile...
Why the Russian defense system S-400 is bought from many nations?
The Vostok-2018 war games in eastern Siberia last month marked Russia's biggest military exercise in more than 30 years, with about 300,000 Russian, Chinese and Mongolian...
USC scientists have created the most detailed atlas yet of the brain’s memory bank
Curing some of the most vexing diseases first requires navigating the world's most complex structure—the human brain. So, USC scientists have created the most...
Alzheimer’s progression : found unknown genetic aberrations
In a large-scale analysis of RNA from postmortem human brain tissue, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Columbia University...
Researchers have developed the first bioelectronic medicine: an implantable, biodegradable wireless device that speeds...
Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine have developed the first example of a bioelectronic medicine:
an implantable, biodegradable wireless device that...
A new method for sequencing DNA for better detection of cancer and other diseases...
A new method for sequencing the chemical groups attached to the surface of DNA is paving the way for better detection of cancer and...
Parents of newborns may be familiar with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria
Parents of newborns may be familiar with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria—in Switzerland, all newborn babies are screened for this genetic disease.
Children found to have...
For the first time, scientists have performed prenatal gene editing to prevent a lethal...
For the first time, scientists have performed prenatal gene editing to prevent a lethal metabolic disorder in laboratory animals, offering the potential to treat...
It is possible to restores insulin cell function in case of type 2 diabetes
By blocking a protein, VDAC1, in the insulin-producing beta cells, it is possible to restore their normal function in case of type 2 diabetes.
In...
Role of glucose metabolism in the development of the malaria disease
More than one million people die annually from cerebral malaria, the most lethal form of the disease.
A recent study, led by Yale investigators, explores...
One-third of ‘gluten-free’ restaurant foods in U.S. are not
If you're gluten-sensitive, watch out: One-third of the "gluten-free" foods sold in U.S. restaurants actually contain trace levels of the substance, new research suggests.
The...
One in five Australian honey samples were found to be adulterated with cheaper sugar...
Following the recent high-profile fake honey scandal, new and independent research from Macquarie University in collaboration with the National Measurement Institute has unveiled, for...
Soldiers at radar installations passed genetic alterations to their children
Soldiers at radar installations who were exposed to high doses of radiation during their service passed on more genetic alterations to their children than...
