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Medical Xpress / The nocebo effect: How prior experience and verbal suggestion rewire the brain to make pain worse
Researchers have a better understanding of the nocebo effect and the neuroscience behind it all. Opposite of the better-known placebo effect, where positive expectations trigger genuine pain relief, the nocebo effect is the ...
Tech Xplore / Privacy isn't dead, it's just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
"You have zero privacy … Get over it," Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999.
Phys.org / Droplet-like clusters reveal new control switch for major drug-target receptors
A study by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine identifies a new way that G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs)—targets of roughly one-third of FDA-approved drugs—control signaling in cells. The paper is published ...
Phys.org / Low pH outside cells rewires transport network and displaces Golgi apparatus, study finds
A new study led by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) describes the mechano-chemical mechanism by which the acidity of the cellular environment destabilizes microtubules, the "avenues" that organize internal cellular ...
Phys.org / Tropical butterflies 'hedge bets' on reproduction as extreme seasons reshape Amazon life
New research from Queen Mary University of London shows how extreme seasonal patterns are causing rainforest butterflies to adapt their reproductive strategies at a rapid pace, with implications for species resilience under ...
Phys.org / Honeybees reveal Weber's law in flight when choosing paths
Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their essential ecological role. Bees can move swiftly in natural environments, passing through narrow openings ...
Medical Xpress / Planes, trains and pandemics: Lessons from COVID‑19 about travel risks posed by hantavirus and Ebola
International travel volumes have now fully recovered from the downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the upcoming World Cup poised to drive a surge in Canadian tourism, recent hantavirus and Ebola virus outbreaks remind ...
Medical Xpress / Blacks, Hispanics and Asians use asthma inhalers less than whites, study finds
Despite guidelines recommending daily controller inhalers as the best treatment for asthma, new UCLA-led research finds that Blacks, Hispanics and Asians use them less than whites, suggesting that socioeconomic factors and ...
Phys.org / Timing in early brain growth may explain why closely related mammals build strikingly different cortexes
The outer regions of the brain, the cortex, have specific layers of different cells—neurons—that are similarly ordered among all mammals, from tiny mouse brains to huge elephant brains. However, the proportions of different ...
Medical Xpress / Low-insulinemic, planetary health diets optimize weight management during menopause
Adopting low-insulinemic and planetary health diets during menopause is associated with optimized weight management, according to a study published online May 20 in JAMA Network Open.
Medical Xpress / Simple blood test could lead to personalized lung cancer treatment
A single blood test could help doctors predict how lung cancer patients will respond to treatment before therapy begins, researchers have found. University of Queensland-led research focused on non-small cell lung cancer ...
Tech Xplore / The fountain of youth for lithium batteries
Open the battery health tab on your phone, and chances are pretty high that you'll be disappointed. And the amount of time squeezed from a full charge only decreases from there. That depreciation might seem unstoppable. But ...
