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Parental obesity can directly affect children, according to NIH researchers. In a study, they showed that obese mothers and fathers can increase risks of child developmental delays.

The new year is a great time to get started on a new diet. Researchers, however, warn that your gut bacteria may have other things in mind, not letting you enjoy right away the benefits of eating healthier.

(American College of Cardiology) Alcohol abuse increases the risk of atrial fibrillation, heart attack and congestive heart failure as much as other well-established risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, sm...

(Florida State University) FSU researchers have set the timeline it took dinosaurs to incubate at three to six months, depending on the dinosaur.

(International Neuromodulation Society) The International Neuromodulation Society (INS) journal Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface is publishing expert, evidence-based guidance on the safe and efficient ...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Children of obese parents may be at risk for developmental delays, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of H...

(American Museum of Natural History) New research on the teeth of fossilized dinosaur embryos indicates that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs took a long time to hatch --between about three and six months. The study finds...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) URMC researchers have developed a new imaging technique that allowed the first glimpse of individual cells in the retina, a layer of tissue at the back of the eye. The new techniq...

(Elsevier) Biological Psychiatry presents a special issue, 'The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia,' dedicated to recent advances in understanding the role of dopamine signaling in schizophrenia. The issue, organized b...

(Bentham Science Publishers) This review will be the first to summarize the expression of legumain (LGMN) in common cancers, as well as its roles in tumourigenesis and metastasis. This review also discusses the current d...

(Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen) ampk Physical activity benefits diabetics and others with insulin resistance. One of the reasons is that a single bout of physical activity increases the effectiveness of i...

Is it inactivity that causes obesity or obesity that makes people turn into couch potatoes? It's a "chicken and egg" scenario that a recent study clarified using a mouse model.

New case study published reported regression in brain cancer patient after a CAR-T based treatment. The patient, who was a 50 year old man with methastasis, now has a chance at surviving the disease.

New research suggests that larger brains have a higher energy expenditure. The study can be paired with the results of another research, concerning the metabolic implications of larger brains.