Scientists find exercising can make your brain tired
It’s not just your legs! Scientists find exercising too much may also make your brain TIRED and disrupt your ability …
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Scientists isolate protective proteins that influence outcomes for type 2 diabetes
Scientists from the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, have, for the first time, discovered a family of proteins that …
Scientists link ‘hunger hormone’ to memory in Alzheimer’s study
Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas have found evidence suggesting that resistance to the “hunger hormone” ghrelin in …
Pollution causes rates of angioplasties to spiral, say scientists
Rates of emergency heart attack treatment to clear blocked arteries ‘are higher when levels of air pollution spike’ Doctors at …
Scientists use skin’s microbiome to develop health index for children with eczema
Microbiomes aren’t just for understanding and modulating gut health—skin, our largest organ, hosts a vibrant and complex microbiome that can …
One in 10 people overcome a near-death experience, scientists discover
One in 10 people have had ‘near-death’ experiences where they have been left ‘paralysed’ or feeling like their soul has …
When it comes to disease, stem cells are a game-changer, scientists say. This is why
Thousands of the world’s leading stem cell researchers are convening in Los Angeles this week to discuss the prospects for …
Scientists identify a novel neural circuit mediating visually evoked innate defensive responses
Fear overgeneralization, a condition that limits the ability to discriminate between safety and threat, is an important pathological characteristic of …
Scientists Claim to Have Found the Limit of Human Endurance
Scientists have worked out the ultimate limit of human endurance to be 2.5 times the body’s resting metabolic rate, or …
Scientists locate brain area where value decisions are made
Neurobiologists at the University of California San Diego have pinpointed the brain area responsible for value decisions that are made …
Glowing tumors show scientists where cancer drugs are working
Experimenting with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have successfully used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to calculate in real …
The sweet spot: Scientists discover taste center of human brain
Researchers long ago mapped sight, hearing and other human sensory systems in the brain. But for taste, which could be …
Scientists delineate pathway that helps us make antibodies
Our bodies are continuously concocting specific antibodies to thwart invaders like a virus or even pollen, and scientists have new …
Scientists find new clues about how the body stores fat
Fat, biologically speaking, is not a bad thing. Fatty acids—the molecular building blocks for body fat—are crucial to the formation …
Dandruff fungus found in the gut could be driving Crohn’s disease
Dandruff could be key to Crohn’s disease: Scientists discover the hair fungus also resides in the GUT and causes inflammatory …
Scientists identify new disrupted pathway in motor neurone disease
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have identified a new pathway that is disrupted in motor neurone disease (MND), a …
Scientists find the brain’s ‘funny bone’ region to keep patients happy
Scientists find the brain’s ‘funny bone’ region: Tickling it can make patients happy during surgery – calming their nerves and …
Hope for diabetics as stem cells turned into insulin-producing cells
Hope for diabetics as scientists turn stem cells into insulin-producing cells in medical breakthrough that could ‘finally find a cure’ …