Follow
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.)
-
APR 01, 2015Neuroscience
Memory and as well as connections between brain cells were restored in mice with a model of Alzheimer's given an experim ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 01, 2015Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 01, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers from the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles have been looking into the effects of air pollution. While it sh ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 01, 2015Cancer
The body's immune system fights disease, infections and even cancer, acting like foot soldiers to protect against invade ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Neuroscience
Brown fat tissue, the body's "good fat," communicates with the brain through sensory nerves, possibly sharing informatio ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Neuroscience
New research has identified some of the processes by which molecules associated with neurological diseases can disrupt t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Bethesda, Md, has just released the latest public ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 30, 2015Neuroscience
After six years of painstaking research, a UCLA-led team has validated the first standardized protocol for measuring one ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Traditionally, to understand how a gene functions, a scientist would breed an organism that lacks that gene - "knocking ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Neuroscience
The search for a fountain of youth has bedeviled kings and alchemists for centuries. Around 80 years ago, Cornell Univer ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 27, 2015Immunology
A team at Rockefeller University tracked the appearance and disappearance of protein coats within the blood of mice infe ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
At least, that's what researchers have concluded after sequencing the genomes of 2,636 Icelanders.
A recent ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Using a novel approach that homes in on rare families severely affected by autism, a Johns Hopkins-led team of researche ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Neuroscience
Where ALS comes from and how it progresses are mysteries that continue to vex medical science. But recent research at Sw ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Eighteen piglets born recently are the result of two years of intense research by scientists in the College of Agricultu ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 26, 2015Cancer
For people infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV), the likelihood of clearing the infection and avoiding HPV-rela ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 26, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania describe the first set of genes importa ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 26, 2015Neuroscience
Findings by a research team at the University of California, have brought up a very interesting question: Could a pill m ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 26, 2015Cancer
Scientists at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanote ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 26, 2015Genetics & Genomics
deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, a global leader in analyzing and understanding the human genome and wholly-owned su ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In the four decades since Stanford's Gerald Reaven, MD, helped demonstrate that insulin resistance can lead to type 2 di ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 25, 2015Cardiology
Working with lab animals and human heart cells, scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions have identified wha ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 25, 2015Immunology
The Thomson Reuters annual forecast found a significant increase in the number of blockbusters set to enter this year's ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 24, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Designer babies? It's far from a whimsy, and now a new technology that would make it possible to alter human DNA at the ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
APR 01, 2015
Neuroscience
Memory and as well as connections between brain cells were restored in mice with a model of Alzheimer's given an experim
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 01, 2015
Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 01, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers from the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles have been looking into the effects of air pollution. While it sh
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 01, 2015
Cancer
The body's immune system fights disease, infections and even cancer, acting like foot soldiers to protect against invade
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Brown fat tissue, the body's "good fat," communicates with the brain through sensory nerves, possibly sharing informatio
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Neuroscience
New research has identified some of the processes by which molecules associated with neurological diseases can disrupt t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Bethesda, Md, has just released the latest public
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 30, 2015
Neuroscience
After six years of painstaking research, a UCLA-led team has validated the first standardized protocol for measuring one
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Traditionally, to understand how a gene functions, a scientist would breed an organism that lacks that gene - "knocking
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Neuroscience
The search for a fountain of youth has bedeviled kings and alchemists for centuries. Around 80 years ago, Cornell Univer
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 27, 2015
Immunology
A team at Rockefeller University tracked the appearance and disappearance of protein coats within the blood of mice infe
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
At least, that's what researchers have concluded after sequencing the genomes of 2,636 Icelanders.
A recent ...
A recent ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Using a novel approach that homes in on rare families severely affected by autism, a Johns Hopkins-led team of researche
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Neuroscience
Where ALS comes from and how it progresses are mysteries that continue to vex medical science. But recent research at Sw
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Eighteen piglets born recently are the result of two years of intense research by scientists in the College of Agricultu
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 26, 2015
Cancer
For people infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV), the likelihood of clearing the infection and avoiding HPV-rela
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania describe the first set of genes importa
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Neuroscience
Findings by a research team at the University of California, have brought up a very interesting question: Could a pill m
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 26, 2015
Cancer
Scientists at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanote
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, a global leader in analyzing and understanding the human genome and wholly-owned su
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In the four decades since Stanford's Gerald Reaven, MD, helped demonstrate that insulin resistance can lead to type 2 di
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 25, 2015
Cardiology
Working with lab animals and human heart cells, scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions have identified wha
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 25, 2015
Immunology
The Thomson Reuters annual forecast found a significant increase in the number of blockbusters set to enter this year's
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 24, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Designer babies? It's far from a whimsy, and now a new technology that would make it possible to alter human DNA at the
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider