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The human skin has a biological clock and eating at abnormal times disrupts it. Research has shown eating late at night weakens the skin's defenses against UV rays.

Eating a handful of walnuts a day could fight off obesity. Researchers discovered how eating walnuts changes brain activity to stave off hunger and cravings.

News In their technique to detect flaws in 3-D printed components, the researchers were inspired to apply the same kind of contrast agents used in medical imaging techniques ... Contributed Author: Georgia Institute of T...

News In addition to its practical benefits for medical imaging, the research also represents a new way of accomplishing high resolution terahertz imaging ... Contributed Author: The Optical Society Topics: Oncology

While still highly experimental, initial findings on Lyme disease diagnosis may outperform current laboratory tests for uncovering early-stage Lyme. Researchers may be able to tell Lyme disease and other tick-borne disea...

News The startup is scaling up and aiming to get into many more homes in the coming year ... Contributed Author: Rob Matheson, MIT News Office Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News To help solve this problem, researchers form Stanford University have been working with depth cameras and computer vision ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

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A man's intense muscle cramps had people describing it as a fetus or even an alien. What commonly causes muscle cramps and how can it be remedied?

A combination immunotherapy treatment has proven effective against peanut allergies four years after being administered in children. The treatment shows promise in fighting the deadly allergy that has increased in years.

Scientists have developed a non-invasive method of detecting cancer which can spot the disease even in its early stages. The method can also possibly reduce the number of 'false positive' cancer diagnoses.

(Harvard Medical School) Harvard Medical School researchers have identified the mechanism behind red blood cell specialization and revealed that it is controlled by an enzyme called UBE2O. This finding could spark the de...

(Nagoya University) Elucidating how body parts in their earliest recognizable form are assembled in tetrapods during development is essential for understanding the nature of morphological evolution. Nagoya University res...

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) in Tübingen discovered that a fatty liver can cause damage to other organs. In two just-published studies they d...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Clinical signs such as gastrointestinal problems may be better predictors of mortality in neonatal calves with diarrhea than blood pH levels and other laboratory findings, sug...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and CHERG used the first international, multi-ethnic birth weight standard, known as the INTERGROWTH-21st, to describe the global burden of subop...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) A study by the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, published recently in the journal Autophagy, helps to elucidate part of the mechanism whereby aerobic exerc...

(Drexel University) Smokers were found to be 20 percent more likely to quit smoking when packs of cigarettes cost just one dollar more, according to a new public health study out of Drexel University.

(Future Science Group) The field of immunotherapy is moving forward at an unprecedented rate and cancer immunotherapy, in particular, has recently come of age!

(University of California - Davis Health System) Study of kidney cancer incidence in California over 25 years is the first report to demonstrate that the rising rate of kidney cancer seen in the US over the past two deca...

(Pensoft Publishers) Having conducted a survey of the earthworms in the Western Ghats mountains, India, a team of four scientists discovered two species new to science. Both belong to a primitive family. They are describ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new preclinical study found that a brief period of extended wakefulness before surgery enhances pain and prolongs recovery time after surgery. Caffeine administration helped...