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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No Excess Baggage: Antarctic Insect’s Genome, Newly Sequenced, is Smallest to Date
Scientists who sequenced the genome of the Antarctic midge suspect the genome’s small size – the smallest in insects described…
Children with Disabilities Benefit from Classroom Inclusion
The secret to boosting the language skills of preschoolers with disabilities may be to put them in classrooms with typically…
Removing school vending machines is not enough to cut soda consumption
Banning vending machines from schools can actually increase soda and fast food consumption among students if it’s the only school…
Pistachios may lower vascular response to stress in Type 2 diabetes
In adults with diabetes, two servings of pistachios per day lowered vascular constriction during stress and improved neural control of…
Watching Schrodinger’s cat die
Continuous monitoring of a qantum system can direct the quantum state along a random path. This three-dimensional map shows how…
Dangers of desert dust: new diagnostic tool for valley fever
On July 5, 2011, a massive wall of dust, (“haboob,” in Arabic), blanketed Phoenix, Arizona, creating an awesome spectacle, (or…
Manipulation of key protein’s action in the brain holds potential for development of drugs to fight obesity and diabetes
A protein that controls when genes are switched on or off plays a key role in specific areas of the…
UT Southwestern researchers uncover new brain pathways for understanding Type 2 diabetes and obesity
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified neural pathways that increase understanding of how the brain regulates body weight,…