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- Risks vary widely in drone-human impacts
- Gulf Spill oil dispersants associated with health symptoms in cleanup workers
- Home blood pressure monitoring for hypertension best combined with intensive support
- Screening for cervical abnormalities in women offered HPV vaccination
- What web browsers and proteins have in common
- Groundbreaking investigative effort identifies gonorrhea vaccine candidates
- Management studies: Dishonesty shift
- Sleep deprivation is an effective anti-depressant for nearly half of depressed patients, study suggests
- Brain powered: Increased physical activity among breast cancer survivors boosts cognition
- Proteins' role in development of spinal sensory cells redefined
- Winner takes all: Success enhances taste for luxury goods, study suggests
- How to remove a tick and prevent future bites
- Getting emotional after failure helps you improve next time, study finds
- Antibiotics following C-section among obese women reduces risk of surgical infection
- Contribution of opioid-related deaths to the change in life expectancy in the US
- How the shape and size of your face relates to your sexuality
- Key regulator of male fertility identifed
- Cell-based therapy success could be boosted by new antioxidant
- New hosts for Chagas disease vectors identified
- Playing American football before age 12 could have long-term health effects
- Exposure to pet and pest allergens during infancy linked to reduced asthma risk
- An interconnection between the nervous and immune system
- A piece of the puzzle: Eight autism-related mutations in one gene
- Guidelines for handling CAR T cell side effects
- Cell model of the brain provides new knowledge on developmental disease
- Local epileptic seizure shows long distance interaction
- New treatment for osteoporosis provides better protection against fractures
- Nanocapsules enable cell-inspired metabolic reactions
- Ricin only lethal in combination with sugar
- 'Language of stem cells' discovered
- How eyes get clogged in glaucoma and how to free them
- Overcoming the brain's fortress-like barrier
- Changes in teenage parenthood
- The brain at work: Spotting half-hidden objects
- Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment
- The wrong first step to revive athletes in cardiac arrest
- Treatment-resistant melanoma may be vulnerable to a drug holiday, study finds
- Owners of seriously ill pets at risk of stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms
- Toy gun popular with kids can cause serious eye injury, warn doctors
- Analyzing the language of color
- Fake news more likely to thrive online due to lowered fact-checking
- New lung cell type discovered
- Horses working in therapeutic riding programs do not experience additional stress
- Beta blockers not needed after heart attack if other medications taken
- Sex, aggression controlled separately in female animal brains, but overlap in male brains
| Risks vary widely in drone-human impacts Posted: 19 Sep 2017 01:03 PM PDT New research suggests there's wide variation in the risk that unmanned aircraft pose to people on the ground. |
| Gulf Spill oil dispersants associated with health symptoms in cleanup workers Posted: 19 Sep 2017 01:03 PM PDT Workers who were likely exposed to dispersants while cleaning up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill experienced a range of health symptoms including cough and wheeze, and skin and eye irritation. |
| Home blood pressure monitoring for hypertension best combined with intensive support Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT People who monitor their own blood pressure at home are most likely to see a benefit if they combine it with individually tailored intensive support, according to a new systematic literature review and meta-analysis. |
| Screening for cervical abnormalities in women offered HPV vaccination Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing detects a higher number of precancerous cervical lesions than cytology-based Pap smears in a female population including a proportion offered HPV vaccination, according to a new study. |
| What web browsers and proteins have in common Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT The discovery of a previously overlooked site on protein molecules may solve a mystery about how proteins are able to carry out specialized functions in living cells. |
| Groundbreaking investigative effort identifies gonorrhea vaccine candidates Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT Researchers have identified a pair of proteins that show promise as the basis for a gonorrhea vaccine. |
| Management studies: Dishonesty shift Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT Lying comes more easily to people in teams: Behavioral scientists have shown in an experimental study why groups are more likely to behave unethically than individuals. |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT Sleep deprivation - typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings - rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of depression patients, according the first meta-analysis on the subject in nearly 30 years. |
| Brain powered: Increased physical activity among breast cancer survivors boosts cognition Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT It is estimated that up to 75 percent of breast cancer survivors experience problems with cognitive difficulties following treatments, perhaps lasting years. Currently, few science-based options are available to help. Researchers report in a pilot study of 87 female breast cancer survivors an increase in physical activity more than doubled the women's post-treatment mental processing speed. |
| Proteins' role in development of spinal sensory cells redefined Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:04 AM PDT A recent study has overturned a common belief about how a certain class of proteins in the spinal cord regulate the formation of nervous system cells -- called neurons -- during embryonic development. |
| Winner takes all: Success enhances taste for luxury goods, study suggests Posted: 19 Sep 2017 09:31 AM PDT Footballers in flashy cars, City workers in Armani suits, reality TV celebrities sipping expensive champagne while sitting in hot tubs: what drives people to purchase luxury goods? New research suggests that it may be a sense of being a 'winner' -- but that contrary to expectations, it is not driven by testosterone. |
| How to remove a tick and prevent future bites Posted: 19 Sep 2017 08:12 AM PDT As tick populations grow and spread across the country, their prevalence is increasing the public’s risk for some troubling diseases. Of these diseases, say dermatologists, Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Powassan virus and alpha-gal syndrome —- a mysterious red meat allergy -— are among the most serious. |
| Getting emotional after failure helps you improve next time, study finds Posted: 19 Sep 2017 08:12 AM PDT Emotional responses to failure rather than cognitive ones are more effective at improving people's results for the next time they tackle the next related task, new research indicates. |
| Antibiotics following C-section among obese women reduces risk of surgical infection Posted: 19 Sep 2017 08:06 AM PDT Among obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, a postoperative 48-hour course of antibiotics significantly decreased the rate of surgical site infection within 30 days after delivery, according to a study. |
| Contribution of opioid-related deaths to the change in life expectancy in the US Posted: 19 Sep 2017 08:06 AM PDT Between 2000 and 2015 in the US, life expectancy increased overall but drug-poisoning deaths, mostly related to opioids, contributed to reducing life expectancy, according to a study. |
| How the shape and size of your face relates to your sexuality Posted: 19 Sep 2017 08:06 AM PDT Men and women with shorter, wider faces tend to be more sexually motivated and to have a stronger sex drive than those with faces of other dimensions. The research investigates the role that facial features play in sexual relationships and mate selection. |
| Key regulator of male fertility identifed Posted: 19 Sep 2017 08:06 AM PDT When it comes to male reproductive fertility, timing is everything. Now scientists are finding new details on how disruption of this timing may contribute to male infertility or congenital illness. Researchers are identifying the key molecular and genetic switch that activates production of healthy male sperm -- but only when the time is right. |
| Cell-based therapy success could be boosted by new antioxidant Posted: 19 Sep 2017 07:52 AM PDT Cell therapies being developed to treat a range of conditions could be improved by a chemical compound that aids their survival, research suggests. Lab tests found that the human-made molecule -- a type of antioxidant -- helps to shield healthy cells from damage such as would be caused when they are transplanted into a patient during cell therapy. |
| New hosts for Chagas disease vectors identified Posted: 19 Sep 2017 07:26 AM PDT Solitary weasel-like animals called tayra might look pretty harmless, but some may actually be incubators for a parasite that causes Chagas disease, a chronic, debilitating condition that is spread by insects called kissing bugs and affects more than 8 million people worldwide. |
| Playing American football before age 12 could have long-term health effects Posted: 19 Sep 2017 07:25 AM PDT Playing American football before the age of 12 may have long-term consequences for players' mood and behavior, according to a study involving 214 professional and amateur football players. |
| Exposure to pet and pest allergens during infancy linked to reduced asthma risk Posted: 19 Sep 2017 07:25 AM PDT Children exposed to high indoor levels of pet or pest allergens during infancy have a lower risk of developing asthma by 7 years of age, new research reveals. The findings may provide clues for the design of strategies to prevent asthma from developing. |
| An interconnection between the nervous and immune system Posted: 19 Sep 2017 07:25 AM PDT Researchers have shown that the increased incidence of infections seen in spinal cord injury patients is directly linked to a disruption of the normal central nervous system. |
| A piece of the puzzle: Eight autism-related mutations in one gene Posted: 19 Sep 2017 07:25 AM PDT Researchers discover a large number of clustered mutations in a single gene, TRIO, that disrupt the development of the brain's connections and likely contribute to the development of autism-spectrum disorders. The scientists also find that a sister gene linked to schizophrenia, KALRN, is inactive in early brain development, but becomes active in adolescence. |
| Guidelines for handling CAR T cell side effects Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:28 AM PDT Immune-cell based therapies opening a new frontier for cancer treatment carry unique, potentially lethal side effects that provide a new challenge for oncologists, one addressed by proposed guidelines for systematically dealing with the toxicities of these drugs. |
| Cell model of the brain provides new knowledge on developmental disease Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:26 AM PDT By reprogramming skin cells into nerve cells, researchers are creating cell models of the human brain. In a new study, the researchers describe how cells from patients with the severe developmental disease lissencephaly differ from healthy cells. The method can provide vital new knowledge on difficult-to-study congenital diseases. |
| Local epileptic seizure shows long distance interaction Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:26 AM PDT An epileptic seizure may be highly local, but it also influences brain activity at a distance of over ten centimeters from the core. This, in turn, affects the active area, scientists report. |
| New treatment for osteoporosis provides better protection against fractures Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:24 AM PDT A new treatment for osteoporosis provides major improvements in bone density and more effective protection against fractures than the current standard treatment. This study is the first that compares the effect of two osteoporosis medicines on fractures. |
| Nanocapsules enable cell-inspired metabolic reactions Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:24 AM PDT Researchers have succeeded in developing capsules capable of producing the bio-molecule glucose-6-phosphate that plays an important role in metabolic processes. The researchers were able to produce the metabolite in conditions very similar to the biochemical reaction inside natural cells. |
| Ricin only lethal in combination with sugar Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:23 AM PDT Researchers have discovered a means of immunizing cells against the biological weapon ricin, which, they report, is only lethal when combined with sugar. |
| 'Language of stem cells' discovered Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:23 AM PDT Stem cells control the cells around them, inducing them to perform specific functions. This phenomenon of the "language of stem cells", which has now been discovered for the very first time, report investigators. |
| How eyes get clogged in glaucoma and how to free them Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:15 AM PDT Biologists have found an explanation for the increase in intraocular pressure in glaucoma and a promising therapeutic option to rejuvenate the eye. |
| Overcoming the brain's fortress-like barrier Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:10 AM PDT Scientists have helped provide a way to better understand how to enable drugs to enter the brain and how cancer cells make it past the blood brain barrier. |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:10 AM PDT The US birth rate hasn't changed for two generations of teenage girls, but other aspects of young parenthood are shifting, especially regarding young fathers. |
| The brain at work: Spotting half-hidden objects Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:10 AM PDT The human and non-human primate brain is remarkable in recognizing partially hidden objects. A study, conducted during a shape recognition task, shows as more of the shape is hidden, a brain area involved in cognition starts to sends signals to the visual cortex. The findings make the scientists wonder if this communication between different brain areas might be impaired in people with autism or Alzheimer's. Both conditions can cause confusion in cluttered surroundings and problems recognizing objects. |
| Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:10 AM PDT A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' self-concepts of their abilities in these two academic domains play an important role in motivating their achievements over time and across levels of achievement. |
| The wrong first step to revive athletes in cardiac arrest Posted: 19 Sep 2017 06:09 AM PDT New research suggests that the main obstacle to an appropriate bystander response during athletes' cardiac arrest could be an apparently widespread myth: that 'tongue swallowing' is a common complication of sudden loss of consciousness that must be avoided or relieved at all costs to prevent death from asphyxia. |
| Treatment-resistant melanoma may be vulnerable to a drug holiday, study finds Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:23 PM PDT A new study has uncovered the mechanisms by which treatment-resistant melanoma become vulnerable to cessation of a class of drugs called MAP kinase (MAPK)-targeted inhibitors. By identifying these mechanisms, the scientists discovered that therapeutic benefits for patients could derive from a one-two punch of a drug holiday of MAPK inhibitors followed by a class of drugs called DNA repair inhibitors. |
| Owners of seriously ill pets at risk of stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms Posted: 18 Sep 2017 07:22 PM PDT Owners of seriously or terminally ill pets are more likely to suffer with stress and symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as poorer quality of life, compared with owners of healthy animals, finds a study. |
| Toy gun popular with kids can cause serious eye injury, warn doctors Posted: 18 Sep 2017 07:22 PM PDT A toy gun that is popular with children can cause serious eye injuries, warn doctors in a new article. |
| Analyzing the language of color Posted: 18 Sep 2017 01:34 PM PDT Languages tend to divide the "warm" part of the color spectrum into more color words, such as orange, yellow, and red, compared to the "cooler" regions, which include blue and green, cognitive scientists have found. This pattern, which they found across more than 100 languages, may reflect the fact that most objects that stand out in a scene are warm-colored, while cooler colors such as green and blue tend to be found in backgrounds, the researchers say. |
| Fake news more likely to thrive online due to lowered fact-checking Posted: 18 Sep 2017 01:34 PM PDT Fake news is more likely to thrive online due to lowered fact-checking, according to new American research. |
| Posted: 18 Sep 2017 01:34 PM PDT A new lung cell type that is implicated in the body's innate immune defense against the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae -- one of the leading causes of pneumonia worldwide -- has been discovered by researchers. |
| Horses working in therapeutic riding programs do not experience additional stress Posted: 18 Sep 2017 01:34 PM PDT In the US, therapeutic horseback riding offers equine-assisted therapy to diverse populations who have anxiety disorders. Veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder often are prescribed this type of therapy to cope with anxiety, but little is known about how these programs affect the stress levels in horses. Now, a study has revealed that horses ridden by veterans with PTSD did not have undue physiological stress responses while participating in a therapy program. |
| Beta blockers not needed after heart attack if other medications taken Posted: 18 Sep 2017 01:33 PM PDT Beta blockers are not needed after a heart attack if heart-attack survivors are taking ACE inhibitors and statins, new research suggests. The study is the first to challenge the current clinical guideline that heart-attack survivors should take all three drugs -- beta blockers, ACE inhibitors and statins -- for the rest of their lives. |
| Sex, aggression controlled separately in female animal brains, but overlap in male brains Posted: 18 Sep 2017 01:14 PM PDT Brain structures that control sexual and aggressive behavior in mice are wired differently in females than in males, new research shows. |
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