biological mechanism
Brain change
Many scientists once believed that the human brain doesn’t change significantly after a person reaches maturity. This opinion has been overturned in the last…
Curing More Cervical Cancer Cases May be in the Math
Quicker identification of non-responding tumors may be possible using a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the Ohio State University…
Gladstone scientists identify role of key protein in ALS and frontotemporal dementia
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified the reason a key protein plays a major role in two neurodegenerative…
Microbes help mothers protect kids from allergies
Researchers in Marburg, Germany find that exposure to environmental bacteria triggers a mild inflammatory response in pregnant mice that renders their…
Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life
“This is a way that nitrogen is lost from an ecosystem that people have never accounted for before,” said Jed Sparks, associate professor of ecology and…
Physically active have reduced risk of prostate cancer
In 1997, over 45,000 Swedish men between the ages of 45 and 79 responded to a survey on lifestyles and degree of lifetime physical activity. Ten years on, the…