Prenatal exposure to nicotine is known to alter areas of the brain critical to learning, memory and reward. Scientists at the Duke Center for Nicotine and…
While many people believe that Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) amounts to feeling gloomy in the winter, a University of Rochester research review emphasizes…
Inactivation of p53 can set the stage for the development of different types of cancer. The researchers' findings show for the first time that inactivating the…
The metabolome is the complete complement of all small molecule chemicals (metabolites) found in or produced by an organism. By analogy, if the genome…
Specifically, their findings identify the chitinase 3-like 1 gene as a potential schizophrenia-susceptibility gene and suggest that the genes involved in…
In an article published in the January issue of Psychological Science, psychologists Amy Kiefer of the University of California, San Francisco and Denise…
The findings conclude that claims of such divisions are unsupported by recent field research and that a better understanding of the state of Mexican democracy…
The study includes nearly 200 healthy four-year-olds in Göteborg and examines both their eating habits and their life styles. Twenty percent of the children…
The Midlands Physics Alliance (MPA) will bring together leading academics from all three institutions to undertake large scale research and the formation of a…
A simple calculation to give the expected temperature of a planet’s upper atmosphere balances the amount of sunlight absorbed by the energy lost to the lower…
The car radio of the future works in a similar manner to a satellite receiver for television channels. However, the car has no large dish antenna on the roof,…
It seems that the current “allergy epidemic” is due not so much to an increase in allergenic risk factors as to the disappearance of factors protecting people…
The programme generated a substantial amount of new knowledge. Any direct application of this knowledge was not expected, as the programme ran only for a…
The research shows that stimulating the molecule CD28 on cells that mediate the immune response, known as T cells, can have an adverse effect if these immune…
Illustrations of climate change-related research are provided in “The Bioscience behind: Coping with climate change”, a new publication from the Biotechnology…
A large study published today in the journal Critical Care recommends that clinicians should strictly control calorie intake, start artificial nutrition within…
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