Approximately 120 million people worldwide are infected with thread-like parasitic filarial worms causing lymphatic filariasis. This tropical disease, found in…
In a pair of recent papers, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators provide a potential mechanism by which HDAC inhibitors specifically damage cancer…
A study conducted by Grace T. Cruz and Josefina N. Natividad of the Population Institute, University of the Philippines Diliman and Yasuhiko Saito of the…
Two dozen Sri Lankan telecentre pioneers came away from a recent study tour to India inspired by the pivotal role women are playing in bridging the digital…
Birgitte Thylstrup and Morten Hesse of Aarhus University, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, in Copenhagen, Denmark, explain that while previous research…
Researchers who have followed 5,840 people from before birth to the age of 31 have found evidence suggesting that small size at birth and excessive weight gain…
Across two studies, participants viewed images, each of which consisted of one centre model and four background models in each image. The researchers…
New research suggests practical options to unlock the potential of the southern African livestock industry and help millions lift themselves out of poverty…
The group approach is unique in integrating body and mind, using the language of the body as a form of counselling to help participants who have presented to…
These are the main findings of a study on grafting of new neurons to the brain in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The study, headed by a team of researchers…
The findings of the Twin Spine Study, an ongoing research program started in 1991, have led to a dramatic paradigm shift in the way disc degeneration is…
The study involved 486 people age 60 to 90 who had no dementia. Of those, 134 people had experienced at least one episode of depression that prompted them to…
For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week.The findings are part of a detailed study of housework trends,…
But that study could not answer the question of whether low LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels were present in study participants before they were diagnosed…
Dr. Thomas Montine, University of Washington, presented the study results at Experimental Biology 2008 in San Diego on April 6. His presentation was part of…
Robert Warren Gould, a graduate student in the laboratory of Michael A. Nader, Ph.D., presented the study results Sunday at Experimental Biology 2008 in San…
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