Oxfordshire, UK Oxford Brain Diagnostics using MRI to diagnose Alzheimer'soxfordmail.co.uk - Erin Lyons AN OXFORD company has launched a new method for diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease from MRI scans. Oxford Brain Diagnostics, a spin out from Oxford …
Blood Pressure Dementia risk: The role of 'blood pressure patterns'Medical News Today - By Tim Newman Researchers are growing increasingly interested in the relationship between blood pressure and dementia. The most recent study investigates how …
Science Understanding E. coli's stealthy secret could help render it harmlessnewatlas.com - Michael Irving The human immune system is pretty good at wiping out dangerous invaders – which is why some of these invaders have developed ways to avoid detection …
Dementia Alzheimer's in women: Could midlife stress play a role?Medical News Today - By Lauren Sharkey For reasons as yet unknown, Alzheimer's disease is more likely to affect women. However, new research sheds light on the potential impact of stress …
Israeli Startups Researchers say they may have found way to block melanoma spread to braintimesofisrael.com - By Shoshanna Solomon Researchers at Tel Aviv University believe they have found a “pathway” that causes melanoma cells to spread to the brain, and may have found a way to …
Stem Cells Stem cells could regenerate organs – but only if the body won't reject themtheconversation.com - Tobias Deuse Many of the most common diseases, like heart failure, liver failure, Type 1 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, occur when cells or whole organs fail …
Alzheimer's Disease 2 genes offer new target for Alzheimer’s protectionfuturity.org - Jim Dryden-WUSTL A pair of genes influence risk for both late-onset and early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, researchers report. Most genes implicated in Alzheimer’s so …
Anxiety Want to Be Free From Anxiety? This 1 Brain Molecule Is KeyInc Magazine - Wanda ThibodeauxA new study suggests it could bring millions of people a better shot at being truly happy and productive on the job. What if the sun eats the world and then explodes and all the particles are sucked into
Science Can New Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How.Quanta Magazine - Christie Wilcox Researchers agree it’s a long shot, but transmissible cancers could theoretically evolve into independent species. Certain weird parasites might be …
Health New Evidence in Animals Shows Whole Body Vibration Actually Changes The MicrobiomeScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill It's the star of a thousand late-night infomercials: vibration platforms that promise all the hard-won benefits of exercise while you simply stand …
Aging What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease?MIT Technology Review - David Adam If this controversial idea gains acceptance, it could radically change the way we treat getting old. Each Cyclops had a single eye because, legend has …
Microbiome Study finds key gut immune molecule links obesity, the microbiome, and metabolic disordersnewatlas.com - Rich Haridy New research led by a team of scientists in Canada has demonstrated how a high-fat diet can disrupt levels of an intestinal immune cell known to help …
Genes Genes and Aging | Learn Science at Scitablenature.com So, how does a single gene cause such a dramatic effect? It turns out that daf-2 normally controls many other genes, which in turn regulate a variety …
Science Supercharging the Band-Aid: Five futuristic bandages that could take wound healing to the next levelnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars Today's bandages are pretty good at covering up wounds, sealing them off from infectious bacteria and allowing the body to go to work patching up the …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHIV HIV Resistant Mutation | Viruses101 | Learn Science at Scitablenature.com HIV virus is one of the most pressing health concerns facing the modern world. Since the first reported case of HIV/AIDS in 1981, over 25 million …
Cancer Cells The power of electromagnetic energy on breast cancer cellsMedical News Today - By Lauren Sharkey Cancer's ability to spread throughout the body can turn a curable case into an aggressive and sometimes fatal one. A team of engineers and cancer …
Babies Do C-section babies need mum’s microbes? Trials tackle controversial ideanature.com - Sara Reardon Swabbing infants with mothers’ vaginal bacteria could affect the children’s health, but critics warn of sparse data and high risk. When a baby passes …
Gastrointestinal Health How to recognize Candida in stoolMedical News Today - By Beth Sissons Candida is a type of yeast that grows in the body in areas such as the mouth, gut, and vagina. At normal levels, it does not cause any problems, but …
Health Team finds the ‘signature’ of guts that don’t get C. difffuturity.org - Tamara Bhandari-Washington University Researchers have found the molecular signature of a healthy gut microbiome—the kind of bacterial community that keeps Clostridium difficile in check …
Insulin How diet can alter the gut, leading to insulin resistanceMedical News Today New research — using mouse models and fecal samples collected from humans — looks into the mechanisms that promote insulin resistance via the gut …
Cannabis Law Study Reviews How Marijuana Compounds Inhibit Tumor Growth And Kill Cancer Cells | Marijuana Momentmarijuanamoment.net - Kimberly Lawson Marijuana Legalization Causes ‘Significant Decline’ In Opioid Overdoses, New Research Finds Two new studies find that opioid-related deaths decline …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFDA FDA approves third oncology drug that targets a key genetic driver of cancer, rather than a specific type of tumoryahoo.com - PR Newswire FDA also approves drug for second indication in a type of lung cancer SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug …
Genes More genes in the human microbiome than stars in the observable universenewatlas.com - Rich Haridy A team of US scientists is embarking on an immense project to catalog all the genes in the collective human microbiome. In the team's first published …
Microbiome Simple animal models for microbiome researchnature.com Knight, R. et al. The microbiome and human biology. Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet. 18, 65–86 (2017). Franklin, C. L. & Ericsson, A. C. Microbiota and …
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Science Scientists Say They've Found a New Organ in Skin That Processes PainGizmodo - Ed Cara It’s not common that researchers discover what could be an entirely new part of the human body. But a team in Sweden claims to have uncovered an …
Dementia Social activity in your 60s may lower dementia risk by 12%Medical News Today - By Ana Sandoiu New research over a 28-year follow-up period finds significant evidence that frequent social contact at the age of 60 can lower the risk of …
Science Turmeric extract finds use in wound-healing foamnewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth Most people think of turmeric as a kitchen spice, or perhaps as a health supplement that's taken orally. Now, however, scientists have incorporated …
Gallbladder Gallstone sufferers may one day avoid surgery thanks to new discoverydailymail.co.uk - Alexandra Thompson Senior Health Reporter Scientists have discovered how gallstones are formed, in a move that could help sufferers avoid surgery. It has long been known that cholesterol is a …
Gluten New test reveals truth behind gluten-free labelsnews-medical.net Many people have wondered whether the gluten-free labeling on their groceries was true. Now, scientists in Australia have come up with a way to …
