Diabetes remission diet also lowers blood pressure and reduces need for medication
New research has shown that if people achieve and maintain substantial weight loss to manage their type 2 diabetes, many ...
Month: May 2021
Study suggests tai chi can mirror healthy benefits of conventional exercise
UCLA HEALTH RESEARCH BRIEF FINDINGS A new study shows that tai chi mirrors the beneficial effects of conventional exercise by ...
Researchers report reference genome for maize B chromosome
Three groups (Dr. James Birchler's group from University of Missouri, Dr. Jan Barto's group from Institute of Experimental Botany of ...
Emotional regulation technique may be effective in disrupting compulsive cocaine addiction
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System An emotion regulation strategy known as cognitive reappraisal helped reduce the typically heightened and habitual ...
Duetting songbirds ‘mute’ the musical mind of their partner to stay in sync
There's Simon and Garfunkel, Tina and Ike, and Armstrong and Fitzgerald. But now, nature's famed duet singers, the plain-tail wren, ...
Extreme CO2 greenhouse effect heated up the young Earth
Very high atmospheric CO2 levels can explain the high temperatures on the still young Earth three to four billion years ...
Using fossil plant molecules to track down the Green Sahara
New publication: Researchers explain how vegetation was possible in the desertCredit: Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier The Sahara has ...
New ‘Swiss Army knife’ cleans up water pollution
First used to soak up oil in water, new sponge sequesters excess phosphate from waterCredit: Northwestern University Phosphate pollution in ...
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
Credit: Prof. Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our ...
Scientists discover a new genetic form of ALS in children
NIH- and USU- led study links ALS to a fat manufacturing gene and maps out a genetic therapyCredit: Courtesy of ...
Medical AI models rely on ‘shortcuts’ that could lead to misdiagnosis of COVID-19
Artificial intelligence promises to be a powerful tool for improving the speed and accuracy of medical decision-making to improve patient ...
Lundquist investigators in global study expanding genomic research of different ancestries
Paper in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide meta-analysis shows that research into different ancestries leads to better results and better careCredit: The ...
Ethnic diversity helps identify more genomic regions linked to diabetes-related traits
By including multi-ethnic participants, a largescale genetic study has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related ...
Isolating an elusive missing link
ICIQ scientists from the Lloret-Fillol group have, for the first time, isolated and fully characterised an elusive intermediate in the ...
Global warming already responsible for one in three heat-related deaths
New estimates suggest Central and South America and South-East Asia most affected regions Between 1991 and 2018, more than a ...
The price is right: Modeling economic growth in a zero-emission society
Researchers analyze whether it is possible to simultaneously grow the economy while not producing more pollution Pollution from manufacturing is ...
Oncotarget: Piperlongumine promotes death of retinoblastoma cancer cells
These Oncotarget findings suggest that PL reduces tumor growth and induces cell death by regulating the cell cycleCredit: Correspondence to ...
Oncotarget: Progression in high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
This Oncotarget study examined the importance of the De Ritis ratio as a prognostic marker in high-risk NMIBCCredit: Correspondence to ...
Beer byproduct mixed with manure proves an excellent pesticide
Byproducts from the beer and agricultural industry have been shown to reduce numbers of root-knot nematodes and increase yields of ...
Oncotarget: Activation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells promotes AML-cell fratricide
These Oncotarget findings suggest that the tolerogenic phenotype of pDCs in AML can be reversedCredit: Correspondence to - Jonathan P. ...
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Small NIH study reveals how immune response triggered by COVID-19 may damage the brain
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Scientists discover cancer trigger that could spur targeted drug therapies
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Researchers uncover life’s power generators in the Earth’s oldest groundwaters
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COVID-19 fattens up our body’s cells to fuel its viral takeover
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Study shows convalescent plasma doesn’t benefit severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19
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Do early therapies help very young children with or at high likelihood for autism?