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Human health and disease
Human health and disease refers to understanding what contributes to human health (the staste of mental, social, and physical being) and what factors may deter health (such as disease, infection, etc.)
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SEP 27, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Cell Regeneration in Your Eyes Could Treat Retinal Blindness DiseasesWritten By: Jennifer EllisSEP 27, 2016Microbiology
Anthrax is commonly found in soil and can be ingested by animals. It is relatively rare for it to affect people but when ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 26, 2016Cancer
The human body is resilient, but some lifestyle habits can do nearly permanent damage from which full recovery is not po ...SEP 26, 2016Microbiology
Food poisoning sickens many people, and can lead to outbreaks of disease. Rapid detection of a common strain of pathogen ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 25, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
In the natural world, genes don’t always operate independently. They can function as part of a set of genes and ca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 24, 2016Cardiology
A nutritious diet and regular exercise habits is a tried and true recipe for successful weight loss, but many overweight ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 24, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells use proteins as placeholders or bookmarks that help the cells to pick up where they left off when gene expression ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 21, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Powerful New Research Tool Reveals How Tecfidera® Blocks T-Cell Activation LA JOLLA, CA—September 21, 2016&mda ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)SEP 20, 2016Immunology
Norovirus is the most common viral cause of diarrhea worldwide, but because of an inability to grow it in a lab, scienti ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 19, 2016Immunology
Yersinia pestis, the bacterial species responsible for numerous and deadly outbreaks of plague throughout human history, ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 17, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects nearly half of all men aged 51 - 60 and 90 percent of men older than 80 years ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 16, 2016Microbiology
Pathogenic microbes can cause serious damage to our intestinal lining that must be repaired by our body. New research pu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 16, 2016Health & Medicine
LA JOLLA, CA—September 16, 2016—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a potent ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)SEP 15, 2016Microbiology
Scientists have linked the microbiome, the community of bacterial organisms that reside in our gut, with myriad health c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 14, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Making the transition to a new environment, be it school or work, can be tough in itself. But when people have to face t ...SEP 13, 2016Cardiology
An international team of scientists is on the cutting edge of a new treatment for cardiac arrhythmia that uses light bea ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 13, 2016Neuroscience
The science on psychedelic drugs is a mixture of dire warnings about bad trips and the possible benefits some of the min ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 12, 2016Microbiology
The first month of a newborn’s life is so critical to a lifetime of health that this period has a name: neonate. I ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 12, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Dana Farber/Boston Children's has been able to selectively silence a gene, BCL11A, found in 2008 to be an integral part ...Written By: Jennifer EllisSEP 12, 2016Cardiology
Scientists have reason to believe that most congenital heart defects are a result of a painfully complicated web of gene ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 12, 2016Neuroscience
Air pollution in highly industrialized urban areas has been implicated in diseases like cancer and respiratory illnesses ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 09, 2016Cancer
For people who love spicy foods, a different type of spice – in the form of ginger – could counter the cance ...SEP 09, 2016Immunology
Food allergies, especially in children, are becoming more and more at the center of different kinds of research: immunol ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 09, 2016Videos
The American Society for Microbiology invited Dr. Martin Blaser, the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New Yor ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 27, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cell Regeneration in Your Eyes Could Treat Retinal Blindness Diseases
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 27, 2016
Microbiology
Anthrax is commonly found in soil and can be ingested by animals. It is relatively rare for it to affect people but when
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 26, 2016
Cancer
The human body is resilient, but some lifestyle habits can do nearly permanent damage from which full recovery is not po
...
SEP 26, 2016
Microbiology
Food poisoning sickens many people, and can lead to outbreaks of disease. Rapid detection of a common strain of pathogen
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 25, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In the natural world, genes don’t always operate independently. They can function as part of a set of genes and ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2016
Cardiology
A nutritious diet and regular exercise habits is a tried and true recipe for successful weight loss, but many overweight
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 24, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells use proteins as placeholders or bookmarks that help the cells to pick up where they left off when gene expression
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Powerful New Research Tool Reveals How Tecfidera® Blocks T-Cell Activation LA JOLLA, CA—September 21, 2016&mda
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
SEP 20, 2016
Immunology
Norovirus is the most common viral cause of diarrhea worldwide, but because of an inability to grow it in a lab, scienti
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 19, 2016
Immunology
Yersinia pestis, the bacterial species responsible for numerous and deadly outbreaks of plague throughout human history,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 17, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects nearly half of all men aged 51 - 60 and 90 percent of men older than 80 years
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2016
Microbiology
Pathogenic microbes can cause serious damage to our intestinal lining that must be repaired by our body. New research pu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2016
Health & Medicine
LA JOLLA, CA—September 16, 2016—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a potent
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
SEP 15, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists have linked the microbiome, the community of bacterial organisms that reside in our gut, with myriad health c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 14, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Making the transition to a new environment, be it school or work, can be tough in itself. But when people have to face t
...
SEP 13, 2016
Cardiology
An international team of scientists is on the cutting edge of a new treatment for cardiac arrhythmia that uses light bea
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 13, 2016
Neuroscience
The science on psychedelic drugs is a mixture of dire warnings about bad trips and the possible benefits some of the min
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 12, 2016
Microbiology
The first month of a newborn’s life is so critical to a lifetime of health that this period has a name: neonate. I
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 12, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Dana Farber/Boston Children's has been able to selectively silence a gene, BCL11A, found in 2008 to be an integral part
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 12, 2016
Cardiology
Scientists have reason to believe that most congenital heart defects are a result of a painfully complicated web of gene
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 12, 2016
Neuroscience
Air pollution in highly industrialized urban areas has been implicated in diseases like cancer and respiratory illnesses
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 09, 2016
Cancer
For people who love spicy foods, a different type of spice – in the form of ginger – could counter the cance
...
SEP 09, 2016
Immunology
Food allergies, especially in children, are becoming more and more at the center of different kinds of research: immunol
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 09, 2016
Videos
The American Society for Microbiology invited Dr. Martin Blaser, the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New Yor
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch