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The 'Memory' of Starvation Is in Your Genes
July 31, 2014 — Epigenetic 'experiments' -- changes resulting from external rather than genetic influences -- suggest that the body's physiological responses to hardship could be inherited, although ... full story -
A Mathematical Theory Proposed by Alan Turing in 1952 Can Explain the Formation of Fingers
July 31, 2014 — Researchers have shown that BMP and WNT proteins are the so-called 'Turing molecules' for creating embryonic fingers. Findings explain why polydactyly -- the development of extra fingers or ... full story -
'Rewired' Mice Show Signs of Longer Lives With Fewer Age-Related Illnesses
July 31, 2014 — While developing a new cancer drug, researchers discovered that mice lacking a specific protein live longer lives with fewer age-related illnesses. The mice, which lack the TRAP-1 protein, ... full story -
Disease Mutations in Mosaicism, Rare Condition Where Cells Within the Same Person Have Different Genetic Makeup
July 31, 2014 — Scientists have long speculated that mosaicism -- a biological phenomenon, in which cells within the same person have a different genetic makeup -- plays a bigger role in the transmission of rare ... full story -
Lead in Teeth Can Tell a Body's Tale, Study Finds
July 31, 2014 — Your teeth can tell stories about you, and not just that you always forget to floss. The discovery could help police solve cold cases, an investigator has said. For instance, if an unidentified ... full story -
Dissolvable Fabric Loaded With Medicine Might Offer Faster Protection Against HIV
July 30, 2014 — Bioengineers have discovered a potentially faster way to deliver a topical drug that protects women from contracting HIV. Their method spins the drug into silk-like fibers that quickly dissolve when ... full story -
Dimly Lit Working Environments: Correcting Body Clock Is Possible
July 30, 2014 — Researchers have, for the first time, conducted a study under real conditions on the body clocks of members of an international polar research station. The researchers have shown that a particular ... full story -
Exploring 3-D Printing to Make Organs for Transplants
July 30, 2014 — Printing whole new organs for transplants sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the real-life budding technology could one day make actual kidneys, livers, hearts and other organs for ... full story -
World's Smallest Propeller Could Be Used for Microscopic Medicine
July 29, 2014 — Scientists have created robots that are only nanometers in length, small enough to maneuver inside the human body and possibly inside human ... full story -
Vision-Correcting Display Makes Reading Glasses So Yesterday
July 29, 2014 — Researchers are developing vision-correcting displays that can compensate for a viewer's visual impairments to create sharp images without the need for glasses or contact lenses. The technology ... full story -
Do Your Stem Cells Sound Like Cancer? While-You-Wait, Non-Invasive Cancer Diagnosis by Converting Stem Cell Data Into Sound
July 29, 2014 — Converting stem cell data into sounds could enable GPs to make instant, non-invasive cancer diagnoses during a routine check-up. A recent study shows how data sonification (where data is conveyed as ... full story -
Learning the Smell of Fear: Mothers Teach Babies Their Own Fears Via Odor, Animal Study Shows
July 28, 2014 — Babies can learn what to fear in the first days of life just by smelling the odor of their distressed mothers’, new research suggests. And not just “natural” fears: If a mother experienced ... full story -
Google Searches May Hold Key to Future Market Crashes, Researchers Find
July 28, 2014 — A team of researchers has developed a method to automatically identify topics that people search for on Google before subsequent stock market ... full story -
Nanoparticle 'Alarm Clock' Tested to Awaken Immune Systems Put to Sleep by Cancer
July 25, 2014 — Researchers are exploring ways to wake up the immune system so it recognizes and attacks invading cancer cells. One pioneering approach uses nanoparticles to jumpstart the body’s ability to fight ... full story -
Smartphone Experiment Tracks Whether Our Life Story Is Written in Our Gut Bacteria
July 25, 2014 — Life events such as visiting another country or contracting a disease cause a significant shift in the make-up of the gut microbiota -- the community of bacteria living in the digestive system, ... full story -
DNA Mostly 'Junk?' Only 8.2 Percent of Human DNA Is 'Functional', Study Finds
July 24, 2014 — Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is likely to be doing something important -- is 'functional' -- say researchers. This figure is very different from one given in 2012, when some scientists ... full story -
Joblessness Could Kill You, but Recessions Could Be Good for Your Health
July 24, 2014 — While previous studies of individuals have shown that employees who lose their jobs have a higher mortality rate, more comprehensive studies have shown, unexpectedly, that population mortality ... full story -
A Reward Is Valued More If You Choose It Yourself: New Quirky Byproduct of Learning from Reward
July 24, 2014 — Many people value rewards they choose themselves more than rewards they merely receive, even when the rewards are actually equivalent. A new study provides evidence that this long-observed quirk of ... full story -
Voice for Radio? New Research Reveals It's in the Cords
July 24, 2014 — Unique vocal cord vibration patterns might be the secret behind a good radio voice, new research reveals. The world-first study filmed the vocal folds of 16 male radio performers, including ... full story -
Warning: Birthdays Can Be Bad for Your Health
July 24, 2014 — Birthday-related drinking is associated with upsurges in hospital admissions among young people, research has ... full story
- The 'memory' of starvation is in your genes
- A mathematical theory proposed by Alan Turing in 1952 can explain the formation of fingers
- 'Rewired' mice show signs of longer lives with fewer age-related illnesses
- Disease mutations in mosaicism, rare condition where cells within the same person have different genetic makeup
- Lead in teeth can tell a body's tale, study finds
- Dissolvable fabric loaded with medicine might offer faster protection against HIV
- Dimly lit working environments: Correcting body clock is possible
- Exploring 3-D printing to make organs for transplants
- World's smallest propeller could be used for microscopic medicine
- Vision-correcting display makes reading glasses so yesterday
- Do your stem cells sound like cancer? While-you-wait, non-invasive cancer diagnosis by converting stem cell data into sound
- Learning the smell of fear: Mothers teach babies their own fears via odor, animal study shows
- Google searches may hold key to future market crashes, researchers find
- Nanoparticle 'alarm clock' tested to awaken immune systems put to sleep by cancer
- Smartphone experiment tracks whether our life story is written in our gut bacteria
- DNA mostly 'junk?' Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional', study finds
- Joblessness could kill you, but recessions could be good for your health
- A reward is valued more if you choose it yourself: New quirky byproduct of learning from reward
- Voice for radio? New research reveals it's in the cords
- Warning: Birthdays can be bad for your health
- Newly discovered gut virus lives in half the world's population
- Dead body feeding larvae useful in forensic investigations
- Wide-faced men negotiate nearly $2,200 larger signing bonus
- Showers may be linked to Crohn's disease, say researchers
- Intestinal parasites are 'old friends,' researchers argue
- Human parasite Leishmania is a probiotic for the fly that carries it
- In asthma, it's not just what you smell, but what you think you smell
- Therapeutic bacteria prevent obesity in mice, study finds
- Nostalgia effect: Do consumers spend more when thinking about the past?
- Fly-inspired sound detector: New device based on a fly's freakishly acute hearing for futuristic hearing aids
- Innovative system anticipates driver fatigue in the vehicle to prevent accidents
- 'Moral victories' might spare you from losing again
- Try, try again? Study says no: Trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language, neuroscientists find
- Parents rank their obese children as 'very healthy'
- Does a work-out give you a bad hair day? Overcoming barriers to physical activity for African-American women
- New research links bad diet to loss of smell
- Children as young as three recognize 'cuteness' in faces of people, animals
- Healing the heart with fat? 18-HEPE might help, study suggests
- Choosing cheese: Research identifies microbial communities in cheese
- Eye movements reveal difference between love and lust
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Preventing foodborne illness naturally: With cinnamon
- Danish DNA could be key to happiness
- Increased levels of the body's own cannabinoids impair embryonic brain development
- Humans walking on all fours is not backward evolution
- Squid skin protein could improve biomedical technologies, study shows
- Tooth plaque provides unique insights into our prehistoric ancestors' diet
- 'Obesity paradox': Cardiovascular mortality lowest among overweight patients
- What do Google searches tell us about our climate change fears?
- Self-assembling nanoparticle could improve MRI scanning for cancer diagnosis
- Do women talk more than men? It's all about context
- Mutation stops worms from getting drunk
- Do daughters really cause divorce? Maybe not
- Mormon pioneer mortality rate calculated at 3.5 percent
- Protein's 'hands' enable bacteria to establish infection, research finds
- Molecular 'eat now' signal makes cells devour dying neighbors
- Does cat poop parasite play a role in curing cancer?
- Reduced range of facial expression indicates serious heart/lung disease
- Study: Young women with sexy social media photos seen as less competent
- Beneath the surface: What zebrafish can tell us about anxiety
- Genome-wide analysis reveals genetic similarities among friends: Study finds truth to 'friends are the family you choose'
- 3-D-printed anatomy to mark a new era for medical training
- Internet browsing can improve millennial attention to workplace tasks
- Injectable foam could prevent fatal blood loss in wounded soldiers
- Decreasing font size enhances reading comprehension among children who have already developed proficient reading skills
- Food imagery ideal for teaching doctors -- but they must have strong stomachs
- Climate change may bring more kidney stones
- Men's hot flashes: Hypnotic relaxation therapy may ease the discomfort that guys don't talk about
- Tiny DNA pyramids enter bacteria easily -- and deliver a deadly payload
- Rotten egg gas holds key to healthcare therapies
- Think fun when exercising and you'll eat less later
- Olfactory receptors in the skin: Sandalwood scent facilitates wound healing, skin regeneration
- Contradictory findings about effect of full moon on sleep
- Neuroeconomists confirm Warren Buffett's wisdom: Brain research suggests an early warning signal tips off smart traders
- Mathematical model illustrates our online 'copycat' behavior
- Infant toenails reveal in utero exposure to low-level arsenic, study finds
- College athletes with abusive coaches more willing to cheat
- Viruses use 'fake' proteins to hide in our cells
- 'Unloved' pseudogenes may provide clearer understanding of biomarkers
- More left-handed men are born during the winter: Indirect evidence of a hormonal mechanism
- Biological basis for magic mushroom 'mind expansion' discovered
- Blood donations could help reduce the risk of heart disease in shift workers
- Extinct human cousin gave Tibetans advantage at high elevation
- Harnessing personal rivalry can boost individual's athletic performance
- Squid sucker ring teeth material could aid reconstructive surgery, serve as eco-packaging
- Using geometry, researchers coax human embryonic stem cells to organize themselves
- Body odor reveals malarial infection
- 'Bad' video game behavior increases players' moral sensitivity: May lead to pro-social behavior in real world
- How common are cruel comments posted to online news sites?
- Monkeys also believe in winning streaks, study shows
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