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A healthy diet and lifestyle will help keep your gut microbes -- and you -- happy.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA) day they are combining their memberships. Effective immediately, the organizations will work together under the IIC umbrella to drive industry...

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced in advance of CES the OA805, a video processor that supports high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) compression with the lowest power consumption in the industry. The interest in HEVC...

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) A new expert review confirms that diet significantly influences mental health and wellbeing, but cautions that the evidence for many diets is comparatively weak. This, the mo...

(Elsevier) Television programs featuring healthy foods can be a key ingredient in leading children to make healthier food choices now and into adulthood. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, pu...

(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Territorial conflicts can turn violent in humans and chimpanzees, two extremely territorial species. An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute...

(University of Helsinki) An experimental study found that long-term consumption of lingonberry juice lowers high blood pressure and improves the function of blood vessels.

(University of Helsinki) A recently published study indicates that oral infections seem to have no association with the risk of stem cell transplantation patients dying of or getting a serious infection within six months...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Penn researchers applied tools from network science to identify how anatomical connections in the brain develop to support neural activity underlying executive function.

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Some compounds found in many personal care products displace natural fat-like molecules in skin cells, which may explain how they cause an allergic skin rash.

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Columbia professors offer their perspective on a recent study on Pyrethroid, among the most widely used insecticides for public health control of vector-borne illne...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study shows the feasibility of using gene therapy to treat the progressive neurodegenerative disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

(Harvard Medical School) Could bile acids -- the fat-dissolving juices churned out by the liver and gallbladder -- also play a role in immunity and inflammation?The answer appears to be yes, according to two separate Har...

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) A new study by the CHAI Project with over 3,700 people in India associates air pollution with a higher risk to develop osteoporosis.

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Investigators have uncovered a new molecular mechanism by which common components of consumer products can trigger an immune response, highlighting a specific molecular connection that may ...