“With this study we see yet again that nature and nurture often work together, not independently, to influence our overall health and well-being,” says NIH…
What causes the concentration of well-educated couples in big cities” A new study from the Journal of Labor Economics disputes prior research suggesting power…
The first U.S. study to transplant a potent form of purified adult stem cells into the heart muscle of patients with severe angina provided evidence that the…
Next time you lose your car keys and enlist the family to help you search, try a little experiment. After your spouse searches an area, go and look in the same…
The 18-month study, being conducted by researchers at the University of Bradford, was commissioned by the PDS to help improve the quality of care for people…
In research published in the July edition of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the York team led by Dr Simon Gilbody, concluded that there was…
The study, a world-first carried out by researchers at The University of Nottingham, discovered that children given oral treatment recovered as quickly,…
Teresa Williams, M.D., and colleagues at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and the University of Washington Medical Center did a retrospective examination of…
For more than 100 years, scientists have known that humans carry a rich ecosystem within their intestines. An astonishing number and variety of microbes,…
In a multi-center study comparing older rhesus monkeys with younger female monkeys, researchers found that estrogen significantly improved cognitive function…
“Our research in monkeys suggests that stress can affect estrogen levels and may set the stage for heart disease later in life,” according to Jay Kaplan,…
Two new studies suggest older men and women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft,…
Finding ways to store (sequester) the greenhouse gas CO2, indefinitely, is one approach being investigated in efforts to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels and so…
Researcher Craig Wheway, of the Department of Geography, has been examining the ‘gentrification’ of market towns across England. He will present his findings…
The open label Phase 1 study, conducted in 12 patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease demonstrated both a lack of adverse events related to the gene therapy…
The Science article, “Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2,” was written by an international team of…
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