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Medical Xpress / Start school later, sleep longer, learn better
Adolescents are chronically sleep deprived on school days, which negatively impacts their well-being and ability to learn. A new study conducted by the University of Zurich and the University Children's Hospital Zurich reveals ...
Phys.org / Human activity is influencing the behavior of Germany's wildcats
A research team led by Dr. Chris Baumann and Dr. Dorothée Drucker from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has found that the European wildcat is increasingly using ...
Medical Xpress / Cigarette smoke accelerates eye aging via epigenetic changes, study finds
Through a series of experiments supported by the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) researchers say they have advanced understanding of how smoking damages the eye and contributes to the development ...
Medical Xpress / Study identifies erythropoietin as a potential active ingredient in Primrose syndrome
A research team from Mannheim, Göttingen, Varna, and Princeton has discovered in animal studies with mice that the growth factor recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) can significantly improve cognitive and social problems ...
Phys.org / New study highlights the importance of careful multiple-choice question construction
Medical, dental and master's students in biomedical sciences frequently take standardized, multiple-choice question tests to assess their foundational knowledge. Reasons for its widespread use include reliability, efficiency, ...
Medical Xpress / After the heart stops: Circulatory-death donors now supply nearly half of organs
Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to routine in the United States, a new study shows. This shift over the past 25 years, aided by technological ...
Medical Xpress / Why breastfeeding's benefits may last years: Immune cells link lactation to long-lasting health
It's widely known that breastfeeding impacts the health of both mother and child, but the underlying biology that leads to these effects has been understudied. In a review article published in Trends in Immunology, researchers ...
Phys.org / Ancient mosquitoes developed a taste for early hominins, research reveals
The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit malaria—for feeding on humans may have evolved in response to the arrival of early hominins in Southeast ...
Medical Xpress / Fifteen-year results from clinical trial suggest that follicular lymphoma is curable
Unlike some other forms of lymphoma, advanced stage follicular lymphoma is considered incurable. But a new analysis of long-term data on patients treated for the disease years ago with standard regimens of immunotherapy and ...
Phys.org / New study reveals why global IT strategies change shape on the ground—and what leaders can do about it
A new academic study suggests that global IT strategies are often adapted at local level—and that understanding why requires paying close attention to culture, not just systems and structures. Published in the Qualitative ...
Medical Xpress / Are tau PET scans 'lighting up' too much of the brain in Alzheimer's disease?
Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles spread across the brain ...
Medical Xpress / Quantitative imaging framework detects emerging form of dementia, limbic-predominant age-related
A novel quantitative PET- and MRI-based imaging approach can objectively identify a recently recognized type of dementia—limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, or LATE—that is often mistaken as Alzheimer's ...
