Could you relationship with your mom increase your child's chances of obesity?
URBANA, Ill. – Could the quality of your attachment to your parents affect your own child's risk for obesity? A new ...
Rice lab clocks 'hot' electrons
HOUSTON – (Jan. 30, 2014) – Plasmonic nanoparticles developed at Rice University are becoming known for their ability to turn light into heat, but how to use them to generate ...
Forests in Central America paying the price of drug trafficking shift
A group of researchers focused on sustainable practices, geography and earth sciences found something unexpected during their work in Central America: the effects of drug trafficking ...
What your company can learn from NASA tragedies
BYU business professor Peter Madsen has been researching NASA's safety climate ever since the Columbia shuttle broke apart upon re-entering Earth's ...
USF psychologist: Childhood depression may increase risk of heart disease by teen years
TAMPA, Fla. – Children with depression are more likely to be obese, ...
RI Hospital researchers identify components in C. diff that may lead to better treatment
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island Hospital researchers have identified components in Clostridium ...
Researchers create database to examine vast resources of health legacy foundations
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jan. 30, 2014 - Local communities can expect the number and asset size of philanthropic foundations to increase, due to the rise in health ...
A detailed look at HIV in action
The human intestinal tract, or gut, is best known for its role in digestion. But this collection of organs also plays a prominent ...
Third-hand smoke shown to cause health problems
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Do not smoke and do not allow yourself to be exposed ...
New study finds differences in concussion risk between football helmets
Football helmets can be designed to reduce the risk of concussions, according to a new study by some of the nation's leading concussion researchers published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery.
The study ...
Lemur lovers sync their scents
DURHAM, N.C. -- The strength of a lemur couple's bond is reflected by the similarity of their scents, finds a new study.
"It's like singing a duet, but with ...
New study finds no reason to replace fructose with glucose
TORONTO, Feb. 1, 2014 – Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have found there is no benefit in replacing fructose, the sugar most commonly blamed for obesity, with glucose in commercially prepared ...
Use of testosterone therapy linked to heart attacks in men under 65, study shows
You may have seen one of the many advertisements geared toward men asking if they suffer from "low T" — low testosterone levels that, according to the ads, can result ...
Clinical study finds 'bubble CPAP' boosts neonatal survival rates
HOUSTON -- (Jan. 29, 2014) -- The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system created by Rice University bioengineering students ...
Researchers find novel approach for controlling deadly C. difficile infections
Researchers from the Alberta Glycomics Centre at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta, ...
Precise gene editing in monkeys paves the way for valuable human disease models
Monkeys are important for modeling diseases because of their close similarities to humans, but past efforts to precisely modify genes in primates have failed. In a study published by Cell Press ...
Cell cycle speed is key to making aging cells young again
A fundamental axiom of biology used to be that cell fate is a one-way street — once a cell commits to becoming muscle, skin, or blood it always remains muscle, skin, or blood cell. That belief was upended ...
Mount Sinai researchers identify UHRF1 as oncogene driving liver cancer
New York, NY – Patients with advanced hepatocellular (or liver) cancer ...
How DNA damage affects Golgi -- the cell's shipping department
In studying the impact of DNA damage on the Golgi, a research team from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered ...
Photon recoil provides new insight into matter
This news release is available in German. Quantum logic spectroscopy – which ...
New study suggests choline recommendations during pregnancy may be too low
Park Ridge, Ill. (January 30, 2014) - Recent research published in the American Journal of Clinical ...
Gastric banding patients should closely monitor nutrition following surgery
DALLAS – Jan. 30, 2014 – Patients who have had bariatric surgery may need to take dietary supplements and pay closer attention to their nutritional intake, a UT Southwestern ...
Geranium extracts inhibit HIV-1
Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München demonstrate that root extracts of the medicinal plant Pelargonium sidoides (PS) contain compounds that attack HIV-1 ...
Self-aligning DNA wires for application in nanoelectronics
Since continuous miniaturization in microelectronics is already starting to reach the physical limits, researchers are seeking new methods for device fabrication. One promising candidate is ...