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…
Editor's Top Picks
Your thoughts can harm your neck and back during lifting tasks
The mental distress of cognitive dissonance – encountering information that conflicts with how we act or what we believe –…
Your one-stop resource for medical news and education.
Cardiologists identify mechanism that makes heart disease worse in diabetics
UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists have uncovered how a specific protein’s previously unsuspected role contributes to the deterioration of…
Genetic manipulation boosts growth of brain cells linked to learning, enhances effects of antidepressants
UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators have identified a genetic manipulation that increases the development of neurons in the brain during…
Could a Milky Way Supernova Be Visible from Earth in Next 50 Years?
Astronomers at The Ohio State University have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring…
UCLA study shows cell-penetrating peptides for drug delivery act like a Swiss Army Knife
Schematic: HIV TAT (blue) permeates membrane, interacts with cytoskeleton (green).(Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Los Angeles) Further,…
How the brain makes memories: rhythmically!
The image shows a neuron with a tree trunk-like dendrite. Each triangular shape touching the dendrite represents a synapse, where…
SOLAR JACKETS WIN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CASE COMPETITION FOR IDEA TO ‘CHARGEATL’
Each day, many students cross the Fifth Street Bridge not thinking much of the downtown connector that exhales exhaust below;…
SCIENTISTS TURN BACK THE CLOCK ON ADULT STEM CELLS AGING
Researchers have shown they can reverse the aging process for human adult stem cells, which are responsible for helping old…
New technology uses solar UV to disinfect drinking water
Civil engineering professor Ernest "Chip" R. Blatchley III inspects a parabolic reflector for a prototype water-disinfection system he built as…