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Meet Zika, 2016's Ebola
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Worry as Zika Escalates
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Life happens, coffee helps..
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Consider your morning; your alarm goes off, you get up and get dressed, probably yawn and then pour yourself a nice mug of coffee to allow you to start the day. This general routine is carried out by millions and is seen as nothing more than wake-up call. However, a recently published study on the benefits of coffee has found that drinking one to five cups of coffee a day, both caffeinated and decaffeinated, actually lowers the risk of total mortality (or death). Coffee is one of the most...
Sperm carries memories of dad's eating habits
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
At some point in our lifetimes, we have all inherited family heirlooms passed on from generation to generation.
Our bequests could range from say a grandfather's clock or dad's watch to that of our dads teaching us how to ride a bike or even how to handle money.
But besides these obvious material additions and habits, what if our fathers also bequeathed, our own feeding behavior?!
This is precisely the focus of a new study by a team of Scandinavian researchers, led by Dr. Romain Barres, an...
A marker for migratory breast cancer spreading to brain
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
When the young lose their way
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No more exercise, just pop a pill...
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
The concept of an exercise pill- a drug that you could take which mimics the beneficial effects of physical exercise, is of huge consumer interest.
Research into these types of pill have been underway since 2004, however, most of the front-runner candidates are still in experimental stages.
A recent article published in a CellPress journal, reviews the 8 potential exercise pills that are being investigated, highlighting that this area of research is being developed and could be seen on the...
Your brain has room for optimism
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Optimism is a personality trait that has been defined by psychologists as the tendency to hold overall favorable expectancies about our future.
Now there is physical evidence for the headquarters of optimism- a brain region linked to a buoyant nature and certain degree of resilience against adversity.
Recently, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign performed a study in healthy individuals to explore the connection between brain regions and emotional health.
Dr.Sanda...
C-sections may affect babies' cognition
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Researchers have shown that babies' delivered via a caesarean section have altered concentration capabilities compared to those born vaginally.
Dr Scott Adler and colleagues at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Vision Research at York University, Canada, have shown that a baby's spatial attention is influenced by method of birth.
Spatial attention is used to describe how well we are able to prioritize and focus on one particular area or object of interest.
It is known that very early...
New Imaging Tool lights up the Brain
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Harvard scientists have developed a new tool that could lead the way in brain imaging at a level previously thought impossible.
Professor Jeff William Lichtman, the senior author of the study, took many individual microscope images of the brain and turned them into a 3D image on a computer.
This creates a valuable map of the brain that could ultimately create a valuable resource that other scientists could use.
"Our goal was to develop an automated method for generating detailed information about...
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