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Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine: is a form of alternative medicine which proponents say focuses on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune systems, but competitors have described it as "pseudoscientific silliness" and quackery.
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JUL 28, 2015Plants & Animals
Every so often, things happen in nature that come off as unfortunate for infant animals as they're born. In the case of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 27, 2015Neuroscience
"Sleeping on it" may have new meaning if researchers from the University of Exeter (in the United Kingdom) and the Basqu ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 27, 2015Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 25, 2015Neuroscience
More than 5,000 scientists specializing in dementia met at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) J ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Genetics & Genomics
When people get sick or hurt, they lose huge numbers of cells. For example, as pointed out in an article in Futurity, "T ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 21, 2015Neuroscience
Psychologists know that adults learn from experience in order to gain a reward, get to the finish line faster or avoid a ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 21, 2015Health & Medicine
The use of donkey milk dates back to 460-370 B.C. when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, reportedly would prescribe d ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUL 21, 2015Health & Medicine
Bacteria form biofilms to create an "ideal environment for creation of nutrient gradients, exchange of genes, and quorum ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 20, 2015Cancer
Supported by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at a new University of Pe ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 17, 2015Cancer
Could here be a direct connection between metabolism and cancer? Researchers in Texas and Austria seem to think there is ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 17, 2015Neuroscience
What causes autism? Is there something physical that accounts for behavioral differences?
Researchers have gr ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 16, 2015Neuroscience
Screams signal danger with an acoustical signature unlike other vocalizations, according to an article in Current Biolog ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 15, 2015Neuroscience
For the more than 15 million Americans who work unusual shifts - evening, graveyard or alternating - the news is unsettl ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 11, 2015Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School researchers believe that type 2 diabetes might reduce the ability to regulate blood flow, which, ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 10, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In discovering that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex strongly correlates with ancestral background, re ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 10, 2015Genetics & Genomics
There is good news for those suffering with a group of orphan genetic diseases that remain incurable thus far. An intern ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Neuroscience
"Accelerated and persistent declines in memory and thinking ability" lasting as long as 6 years after a stroke "at a rat ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 08, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A group of scientists at Harvard University have recently seen success in restoring hearing in deaf mice. The key: repla ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 08, 2015Neuroscience
Why do some of your friends -- who are the same age as you are -- look so much younger than you do? Why do some look so ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 07, 2015Neuroscience
What is it about our brain wiring that makes it easy to pick up a pen or remember the lyrics of a song, each at the appr ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 07, 2015Neuroscience
The phrase, "dreams are made for children," might have taken on new meaning, based on a study at Washington State Univer ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 06, 2015Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 03, 2015Neuroscience
Are the very systems that are supposed to dispose of cellular waste making it worse? A study at Yale University in New H ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
JUL 28, 2015
Plants & Animals
Every so often, things happen in nature that come off as unfortunate for infant animals as they're born. In the case of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2015
Neuroscience
"Sleeping on it" may have new meaning if researchers from the University of Exeter (in the United Kingdom) and the Basqu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 27, 2015
Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 25, 2015
Neuroscience
More than 5,000 scientists specializing in dementia met at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) J
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
When people get sick or hurt, they lose huge numbers of cells. For example, as pointed out in an article in Futurity, "T
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 21, 2015
Neuroscience
Psychologists know that adults learn from experience in order to gain a reward, get to the finish line faster or avoid a
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 21, 2015
Health & Medicine
The use of donkey milk dates back to 460-370 B.C. when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, reportedly would prescribe d
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUL 21, 2015
Health & Medicine
Bacteria form biofilms to create an "ideal environment for creation of nutrient gradients, exchange of genes, and quorum
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 20, 2015
Cancer
Supported by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at a new University of Pe
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 17, 2015
Cancer
Could here be a direct connection between metabolism and cancer? Researchers in Texas and Austria seem to think there is
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 17, 2015
Neuroscience
What causes autism? Is there something physical that accounts for behavioral differences?
Researchers have gr ...
Researchers have gr ...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 16, 2015
Neuroscience
Screams signal danger with an acoustical signature unlike other vocalizations, according to an article in Current Biolog
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 15, 2015
Neuroscience
For the more than 15 million Americans who work unusual shifts - evening, graveyard or alternating - the news is unsettl
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 11, 2015
Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School researchers believe that type 2 diabetes might reduce the ability to regulate blood flow, which,
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 10, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In discovering that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex strongly correlates with ancestral background, re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 10, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
There is good news for those suffering with a group of orphan genetic diseases that remain incurable thus far. An intern
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Neuroscience
"Accelerated and persistent declines in memory and thinking ability" lasting as long as 6 years after a stroke "at a rat
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 08, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A group of scientists at Harvard University have recently seen success in restoring hearing in deaf mice. The key: repla
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 08, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do some of your friends -- who are the same age as you are -- look so much younger than you do? Why do some look so
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 07, 2015
Neuroscience
What is it about our brain wiring that makes it easy to pick up a pen or remember the lyrics of a song, each at the appr
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 07, 2015
Neuroscience
The phrase, "dreams are made for children," might have taken on new meaning, based on a study at Washington State Univer
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 06, 2015
Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 03, 2015
Neuroscience
Are the very systems that are supposed to dispose of cellular waste making it worse? A study at Yale University in New H
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider