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Studies show little evidence that eating a morning meal helps us lose weight.

Tiny pores in heart cells generate electrical signals to initiate each heart beat. Structural studies of these channels provide details on their functions, and also on their malfunction due to different inherited mutatio...

Drug discovery researchers have created a new framework for mining data for training machine learning models.

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Patients who were transplanted with hearts from hepatitis C-positive donors had comparable outcomes after one year to patients who received hearts from donors that didn't have the d...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Heparin is widely used as an anticoagulant, but evokes in some patients a potentially life-threatening condition called HIT. Clinical scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universita...

(University of Southampton) Researchers have gained new insight into the mechanisms involved in how skeletal muscles lose their mass and strength as people age, called sarcopenia.

(University of Alberta) New research from University of Alberta neuroscientists shows that the brains of adolescents struggling with mental-health issues may be wired differently from those of their healthy peers.

(The Obesity Society ) A new analysis suggests that the increasing average body size of people on Earth, in addition to the growing world population may further challenge attempts to reduce man-made carbon dioxide emissi...

(University of Texas at Austin) A mother's obesity in pregnancy can affect her child's development years down the road, according to researchers who found impaired motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle chil...

(Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute ) Researchers have shown that genetic data obtained from a single blood draw or saliva sample can be used to identify individuals at a 3-fold increased risk of developing ischaemic str...

(George Mason University) In collaboration with Dr. S. Abbas Shobeiri, Vice Chair, Gynecologic Subspecialties, INOVA Women's Hospital, Parag Chitnis, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering; Qi Wei, Associate Professor, Bioe...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)) CNIC scientists have identified the molecular mechanisms that allow our cells to adapt to, protect themselves against, and survive mechanical stre...

(University of Nottingham) New research from experts at the University of Nottingham could lead to an improved vaccine to protect against the bacterium, Neisseria meningitides that causes sepsis and meningitis.

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Tiny solutions are being sought for big liver problems by a scientist at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealt...

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) The reproduction of lynxes is highly mysterious. Unlike other wild cats, most lynxes are only receptive for a few days once a year. The Berlin team has now achieved another breakthrough in solv...

(Penn State) Penn State researchers in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering received a $400,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for ...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) A collaborative study led by researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix and Rice University found that freestanding emergency departments can increase o...

(Newcastle University) For the first time, scientists have been able to observe people developing Type 2 diabetes - and confirmed that fat over-spills from the liver into the pancreas, triggering the chronic condition.

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Estimates based on genomic data predict stroke risk with an accuracy similar to, or greater than those based on clinical risk factors. This result implies that persons at high r...

(University of Bern) Why do we move our eyes fast in the paradoxical sleep -- in that sleep phase, in which most dreams take place? The secret is not yet fully aired, but we are on his track: A team at the University of ...