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Medical Xpress / Your liver is hiding a shifting cellular map, and diet can rapidly redraw its internal landscape
As we go about our day, the trillions of cells in our bodies run like well-oiled machines: continually sensing what's happening around them and making modifications to keep us humming along. Like adjusting a gear in a car ...
Medical Xpress / Toddlers' pretend play ability linked to better mental health
Children who demonstrate pretend play ability as toddlers have significantly fewer emotional and behavioral difficulties at primary school, according to a new interdisciplinary University of Sydney study.
Phys.org / Small-scale and backyard egg producers in New England invited to participate in survey
As more families and small enterprises enter the egg market and more consumers buy local food, the stakes around backyard egg safety are growing. A single outbreak linked to small producers could pose a setback to public ...
Phys.org / Floating biodegradable beads remove oil in 60 minutes and stay easy to recover
Floatable beads made from chitosan and cellulose acetate and enhanced with bentonite have been engineered to effectively clean oil from water. The beads showed good oil adsorption capacity while remaining easy to collect ...
Phys.org / Telling people they might lose motivates more than telling them they might win, research shows
Athletes say they hate to lose more than they love to win. New research finds the same sentiment is shared in organizations. A Virginia Tech researcher and his colleagues discovered that when managers frame work problems ...
Medical Xpress / How glioblastoma spreads its impact across the brain and why that could change prognosis
Glioblastoma, the most aggressive malignant brain tumor in adults, is not an isolated lesion, but a disease that destabilizes the brain's communication network. A new study published in the journal Cancers shows that survival ...
Medical Xpress / Exposure to wildfire smoke may be linked to increased risk of developing several cancers
Exposure to wildfire smoke was associated with a significantly increased risk of lung, colorectal, breast, bladder, and blood cancer, according to results from a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research ...
Phys.org / When managers 'walk around,' employee voice may shrink, paper warns
A new paper by two Idaho State University professors says a popular management technique may cause more harm than good. Published in the American Journal of Management, the study by Tyler Burch, professor of management, and ...
Medical Xpress / Can a deaf person's brain turn silence into vision?
A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable neuroplasticity. A team of researchers has studied the brain activity of young congenitally deaf and young ...
Phys.org / Sex bias against women skews government violence statistics
The extent of violence in England and Wales, especially against women, is obscured by official government statistics, a new study reveals. Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, and Lancaster University, have ...
Medical Xpress / Bullying and adverse social climate take measurable toll on mental health of gender-diverse youth: Study
Gender-diverse adolescents who experience bullying and live in states with persistently unsupportive gender identity laws are significantly more likely to suffer escalating psychological distress compared to their peers, ...
Medical Xpress / Early myocarditis onset after immunotherapy may predict treatment-related fatality
Patients who developed myocarditis within the first month of receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy were more likely to die of myocarditis, and myocarditis-specific fatality was more common in patients who experienced ...