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Competition may play important role in brain evolution, killifish study shows

In response to a high-competition environment, Trinidadian killifish evolve larger brains, increasing their fitness and survival rates, according to a new study in Ecology Letters by biologists at The University of Texas at Arlington.

20 Oct 2022

Parental exercise improves whole-body glucose metabolism in offspring, study finds

A mouse study by Kristin Stanford, a physiology and cell biology researcher with The Ohio State University College of Medicine at the Wexner Medical Center, provides new ways to determine how maternal and paternal exercise improve metabolic health of offspring.

20 Oct 2022

Infancy acid suppression and antibiotic use are associated with celiac disease

Researchers determine whether exposure to certain prescriptions after the first six months of life was associated with a diagnosis of celiac disease.

20 Oct 2022

Amygdala may also be to blame for overeating, research finds

A region of the brain called the amygdala is responsible for powerful emotions like fear. Now, researchers have found the amygdala may also be to blame for overeating.

20 Oct 2022

Male mice three times more likely than females to survive E. coli infection

Scientists at UC San Francisco have developed a new way of looking at sex-biased diseases that is rooted in evolutionary biology.

20 Oct 2022

Three-dose course of the hepatitis B vaccine fully protects adults living with HIV

A three-dose course of the hepatitis B vaccine HEPLISAV-B fully protected adults living with HIV who had never been vaccinated against or infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), according to study findings presented today at the IDWeek conference in Washington, D.C.

20 Oct 2022

Children from disadvantaged communities often go hungry in childcare centers

Researchers at The University of Queensland have found children in disadvantaged communities often go hungry when they attend early education and childcare centers.

20 Oct 2022

Nutrition education needed for all healthcare professionals to better support public health, research suggests

All healthcare professionals should study a curriculum of nutrition education during their studies in order to help better support public health - new paper suggests.

20 Oct 2022

Study identifies gene mutations that impact radiation resistance and sensitivity

A new Northwestern Medicine study identifies common and rare gene mutations that impact radiation resistance and sensitivity, an important step toward providing more individualized and effective radiotherapy for patients with cancer.

20 Oct 2022

Research elucidates the challenges faced by para-athletes in sports nutrition

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers, Professor Hisayo Yokoyama from the Research Center for Urban Health and Sports, and Specially Appointed Research Associate Miwako Deguchi and Specially Appointed Professor Nobuko Hongu from the Graduate School of Human Life and Ecology, interviewed para-athletes with lower-limb disabilities about diet and nutrition.

20 Oct 2022

Family caregivers find support on #dementia TikTok

It all changed on a Saturday night in New York City in 2016. Jacquelyn Revere was 29 and headed out to attend a friend’s comedy show. She was on the subway when her phone rang.

20 Oct 2022

Study shows how brain's sensitivity to regret may be altered in mood disorders

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have learned that the way the brain processes the complex emotion of regret may be linked to an individual's ability to cope with stress, and altered in psychiatric disorders like depression.

19 Oct 2022

Mass General Brigham sites announce participation in phase 3 trial of monkeypox treatment

Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, the founding members of Mass General Brigham, today announced their participation in STOMP (Study of Tecovirimat for Human Monkeypox Virus), a phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of tecovirimat (TPOXX) for the treatment of human monkeypox.

19 Oct 2022

Food News and Research

Competition may play important role in brain evolution, killifish study shows

Parental exercise improves whole-body glucose metabolism in offspring, study finds

Infancy acid suppression and antibiotic use are associated with celiac disease

Amygdala may also be to blame for overeating, research finds

Male mice three times more likely than females to survive E. coli infection

Three-dose course of the hepatitis B vaccine fully protects adults living with HIV

Children from disadvantaged communities often go hungry in childcare centers

Nutrition education needed for all healthcare professionals to better support public health, research suggests

Study identifies gene mutations that impact radiation resistance and sensitivity

Research elucidates the challenges faced by para-athletes in sports nutrition

Family caregivers find support on #dementia TikTok

Study shows how brain's sensitivity to regret may be altered in mood disorders

Mass General Brigham sites announce participation in phase 3 trial of monkeypox treatment

SARS-CoV-2 virus alters the composition of breast milk, research shows

Researchers explore how stress may increase appetite in obese and lean adults

Rare insect-eating mushrooms show potential to develop new anti-viral and cancer medications

High intake of refined grains does not increase risk of cardiovascular disease, study reveals

CDC expands the use of updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5 through 11 years

Does skin inflammation exacerbate COVID-19?

New machine learning model can screen novel drug compounds to accurately predict efficacy in humans

Understanding cultivated meat and its global potential eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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