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Medical Xpress / Celiac risk may begin with weaker helper T cells, not just overactive immunity
New research from the Snow Center for Immune Health is challenging long-held assumptions about autoimmune disease, revealing that celiac disease may be driven not just by an overactive immune system, but by subtle defects ...
Medical Xpress / Fathers may influence their children's health before they're even conceived
A father's health before conception may leave a biological imprint on his future children, according to a new study from Washington State University.
Medical Xpress / Statin use linked to lower risk of frailty in older veterans
Researchers at Mass General Brigham have demonstrated that older U.S. veterans who initiated statin therapy were significantly less likely to develop frailty over time, suggesting that the cholesterol-lowering medications ...
Medical Xpress / Brushing your teeth in hospital could reduce the chance of catching pneumonia
You go to the hospital for treatment and to get better. But sometimes, you get something much less welcome: an infection.
Phys.org / Why are sloths slow? It's in their DNA
Sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet, but living in dense jungles has made them notoriously difficult to study. For the first time, scientists have now sequenced and analyzed the two-toed sloth genome and revealed ...
Phys.org / How climate shapes the meanings of words across languages
When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by Professor Bi Yanchao explored this question using word embeddings from 53 languages, behavioral ...
Phys.org / New dating of Spain's Sala Keimada rock art sanctuary reveals thousands of years of continuous use
The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has participated in a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports on Sala Keimada, one of the rock art sanctuaries in Cueva Palomera, ...
Phys.org / Ancient ground squirrel droppings reveal Arctic's rich evolutionary history
Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, microbes and large mammals, offering detailed ...
Phys.org / Quality of relationship between patient and therapist is key to preventing child sex offenders from doing it again
Since the 1980s, there has been extensive research on the effectiveness of treatment for perpetrators of sexual crimes against children. Studies have examined rehabilitation programs, the role of clinicians and the factors ...
Medical Xpress / Study looks at barriers to initiation of rotavirus vaccine
Risk factors for not initiating a rotavirus vaccine (RVV)—for which the first dose is recommended by a maximum age of 14 weeks, six days—include extremely preterm birth and having no health insurance, according to a study ...
Phys.org / Why vague conservation targets are failing some vulnerable species
A shift toward more precise, measurable conservation goals could hold the key to protecting vulnerable species, according to the findings of a new study looking at African elephants. Conservationists are often faced with ...
Phys.org / Dogs uncover invasive pests that experts missed in real-world vineyard tests
At a Maryland vineyard, Debi Persing guided her Boston terrier, Xephyr, slowly down a row of grapevines. Vineyard workers and scientists had already identified several invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses hidden among the ...
