Yoga Can Lower Fatigue, Inflammation in Breast Cancer Survivors
Practicing yoga for as little as three months can reduce fatigue and lower inflammation in breast cancer survivors, according to…
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Ecologists Call for Preservation of Planet’s Remaining Biological Diversity
The "Flume Room" at the University of Michigan is used to assess biodiversity in streams. (Credit: Brad…
Pivotal Role for Proteins-From Helping Turn Carbs into Energy to Causing Devastating Neuromuscular Disease
Research into how carbohydrates are converted into energy has led to a surprising discovery with implications for the treatment…
BioChip may make diagnosis of leukemia and HIV faster, cheaper
An assembled flow cytometry chip with size comparable to a U.S. Quarter. Credit: Tony Huang …
Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave
Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a…
Hormone Plays Surprise Role in Fighting Skin Infections
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are molecules produced in the skin to fend off infection-causing microbes. Vitamin D has been credited…
This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory
A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the…
Alzheimer’s Gene Causes Brain’s Blood Vessels to Leak, Die
The left photo shows destructive proteins (green) lining blood vessels in living brain tissue of mice with the…
UCLA scientists unlock mystery of how ‘handedness’ arises
Colored patches represent parallelogram outlines around pairs of triangles that have formed chiral super-structures. Parallelograms having…