the 6 common types of disgust that protect us from disease
Disgust has long been recognised as an emotion which evolved to help our ancestors avoid infection, but now researchers have been able to show...
One out of every five deaths among young adults in the United States is...
One out of every five deaths among young adults in the United States is related to opioids, suggests a study led by researchers in...
Polarized cells give the heart its fully developed form
When it first starts to develop, the heart is a simple tube. Reporting in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at MDC have now described...
Microsoft reportedly buys GitHub code-sharing service
Here's the biggest news of the week: Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub and could announce a deal in likely worth billions of dollars as...
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for use in displays,...
Biologists program cells to self-organize into 3D-structures in a first step towards tissues that...
How do complex biological structures -- an eye, a hand, a brain -- emerge from a single fertilized egg?
This is the fundamental question of...
Research reveals how well fearful facial expressions are perceived in peripheral vision
New research by academics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) reveals how well fearful facial expressions are perceived in peripheral vision.
Although human vision...
Hospital superbug uses tiny sticky fingers to infect medical tools and devices
The antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumanniibacterium is one of the most globally harmful bacteria that causes nosocomial infections.
Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered that the...
Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut
You are what you eat. Or so the saying goes. Science now tells us that we are what the bacteria living in our intestinal...
Scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience – the sense...
Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience -- the sense of connection to something greater than oneself.
Activity in the...
Lipid molecules can be used for cancer growth
When the blood supply is low, cancer cells can use lipid molecules as fuel instead of blood glucose.
This has been shown in animal tumour...
Researchers create new programmed shape-morphing scaffolds enabling facile 3-D endothelialization
Recently, a research team led by Dr. DU Xuemin at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created...
New insights into the development of heart disease therapeutics
he heart of a neonatal mouse is capable of self-repair after tissue damage. However, this ability disappears during the first week of life.
Researchers at...
Phase I trial finds experimental drug safe in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Reporting results from a first-in-human phase I clinical trial, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that treatment with...
The sleep loss is linked with nighttime snacking, junk food cravings, obesity, diabetes
Nighttime snacking and junk food cravings may contribute to unhealthy eating behaviors and represent a potential link between poor sleep and obesity, according to...
