Loading...
ScienceDaily: Top Health News |
Nurses sleep less before a scheduled shift, hindering patient care and safety Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST Nurses sleep nearly an hour and a half less before work days compared to days off, which hurts patient care and safety, finds a new study. |
People willing to risk near-certain death for an HIV cure Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST People willing to risk near-certain death for an HIV cure; protecting individuals and families in genetic and psychiatric research, considerations for including pregnant women in research. |
Breakthrough in Zika virus vaccine Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST Researchers have made significant advances in developing a novel vaccine against Zika virus, which could potentially lead to global elimination of the disease. |
Perinatal exposure to flame retardant alters epigenome, predisposing metabolic disease Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST A new study showed that environmentally relevant exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), a brominated flame retardant, through the umbilical cord and breast milk permanently changed liver metabolism in rats. |
New study enhances knowledge about widespread diseases Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST When proteins in the brain form deposits consisting of insoluble aggregates, diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's can occur. Now a research team has come a step closer to understanding this process. |
Synthetic nanopores made from DNA Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST A scientific collaboration has resulted in the construction of a synthetic DNA nanopore capable of selectively translocating protein-size macromolecules across lipid bilayers. |
Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST Scientists pinpionted the role of a receptor in the plasticity underlying the degradation of vision in the common childhood condition amblyopia, but expected that receptor would play a bigger role in layer 4 of the visual cortex. |
Bone bandage soaks up pro-healing biochemical to accelerate repair Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST Researchers have engineered a patch or bandage that captures a pro-healing molecule called adenosine that briefly surges at the site of a bone break or fracture to accelerate and improve the natural healing process. In a proof-of-principle study with mice, the bandage helped to accelerate callus formation and vascularization to achieve better bone repair by three weeks. |
Knowledge-sharing: a how-to guide Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST How is knowledge exchanged and shared when interdisciplinary research teams work together? Researchers have investigated this by studying several different research projects. Their study makes concrete recommendations for how teams can best work together and achieve effective collaborations. |
Standard pathology tests outperform molecular subtyping in bladder cancer Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:54 AM PST While trying to develop a comparatively easy, inexpensive way to give physicians and their patients with bladder cancer a better idea of likely outcome and best treatment options, scientists found that sophisticated new subtyping techniques designed to do this provide no better information than long-standing pathology tests. |
Rectal microbes influence effectiveness of HIV vaccine Posted: 13 Dec 2019 06:25 AM PST Microbes living in the rectum could make a difference to the effectiveness of experimental HIV vaccines, according to researchers. |
Breast cancer cells swallow a 'free lunch' of dietary fat particles from the bloodstream Posted: 12 Dec 2019 11:26 AM PST A research team has previously shown that fatty particles from the bloodstream may boost the growth of breast cancer cells. They now show that through an unexpected mechanism not previously described in cancer cells, the fat particles bind to the breast cancer cell surface and are then taken into the cell, providing a large supply of fuel that drives proliferation of the cancer cells. |
Largest study of its kind reveals that many psychiatric disorders arise from common genes Posted: 12 Dec 2019 11:26 AM PST In the largest-ever study of its kind researchers identified more than 100 genetic variants that affect the risk for more than one mental health condition. |
Combining science and design to measure our exposure to light Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:57 AM PST Daylight plays an essential role in sleep, alertness and hormone regulation. Scientists are now developing a wearable sensor that measures how much light an individual is exposed to along with the spectral resolution of that light. |
You are subscribed to email updates from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States |
Loading...
Loading...