Health News

• Mediterranean diet provides symptom relief for patients with IBS in pilot study Friday, 30 May 2025
  In a comparative pilot study, the Mediterranean diet and the low FODMAP diet both provided relief for patients with IBS.
• Singing to babies improves their mood Friday, 30 May 2025
  Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby's mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new findings support that singing is an easy, safe, and free way to help improve the mental well-being of infants. Because improved mood in […]
• Common gene variant doubles dementia risk for men Friday, 30 May 2025
  New research has found that men who carry a common genetic variant are twice as likely to develop dementia in their lifetime compared to women.
• Innovative immunotherapy shows promise against aggressive T cell cancers Friday, 30 May 2025
  An international clinical trial shows an innovative CAR-T cell immunotherapy is promising against aggressive T cell cancers and has manageable side effects.
• Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second species of bacteria responsible for leprosy, Mycobacterium lepromatosis, has been infecting humans in the Americas for at least 1,000 years, several centuries before the Europeans […]
• Does outdoor air pollution affect indoor air quality? It could depend on buildings' HVAC Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Researchers determined how much outdoor particulate pollution affects indoor air quality. Their study concluded pollution from inversion and dust events is kept out of buildings, but wildfire smoke can sneak inside if efficient 'air-side economizers' are in use.
• Sustained in the brain: How lasting emotions arise from brief stimuli, in humans and mice Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders.
• Evolution of a single gene allowed the plague to adapt, survive and kill much of humanity over many centuries Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time it took to kill its victims, but these forms of plague ultimately died out.
• Cellular scaffolding secrets unlocked: Scientists discover key to microtubule growth Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Scientists found out how naturally unstable filaments decide whether to grow or to shorten.
• Mindfulness and brain stimulation could reduce bladder leaks Thursday, 29 May 2025
  A new study suggests that mindfulness training and/or non-invasive brain stimulation could reduce bladder leaks and feelings of urgency in patients with 'latchkey incontinence.'
• Could 'pausing' cell death be the final frontier in medicine on Earth and beyond? Thursday, 29 May 2025
  The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study.
• Dinosaurs could hold key to cancer discoveries Thursday, 29 May 2025
  New techniques used to analyze soft tissue in dinosaur fossils may hold the key to new cancer discoveries. Researchers have analyzed dinosaur fossils using advanced paleoproteomic techniques, a method that holds promise for uncovering molecular data from ancient specimens.
• Machine learning algorithm brings long-read sequencing to the clinic Thursday, 29 May 2025
  SAVANA uses a machine learning algorithm to identify cancer-specific structural variations and copy number aberrations in long-read DNA sequencing data. The complex structure of cancer genomes means that standard analysis tools give false-positive results, leading to erroneous clinical interpretations of tumour biology. SAVANA significantly reduces such errors. SAVANA offers rapid and reliable genomic analysis to […]
• Digital discovery unlocks durable catalyst for acidic water splitting Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Scientists have developed a data-driven method to accelerate the discovery of affordable, stable catalysts for clean hydrogen production. Using a digital platform called DigCat, they identified a low-cost metal oxide that performs both OER and HER in acidic conditions and remains stable over time.
• Keep the cool feeling: A lipid enzyme for maintaining cool temperature sensation and avoidance Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Researchers have identified a monoacylglycerol acyltransferase-coding gene named bishu-1. It is involved in the thermal responsiveness of cool temperature-sensing neurons by regulating ionotropic receptor expression, thereby maintaining the cool temperature avoidance behaviors in Drosophila larvae.
• How does coffee affect a sleeping brain? Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Coffee can help you stay awake. But what does caffeine actually do to your brain once you're asleep? Using AI, a team of researchers has an answer: it affects the brain's 'criticality'.
• Unlocking precise composition analysis of nanomedicines Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Current regulations for nanomedicines overlook the effects of the different forms of the same element, such as ions, nanoparticles, and aggregates. In a recent study, researchers developed a new analytical method combining an asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation system and mass spectrometry to separately quantify these forms. This technique allows for better quality control and safety […]
• Findings on the protein that forms loops in the human genome Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Cohesin is a protein that forms a ring-shaped complex which wraps and alters the DNA molecule shape. It moves through the DNA and creates specific loops in the genetic material which determine the architecture of the genome and gene expression. Some mutations in the genes of the cohesion complex are responsible for rare diseases (cohesinopathies), […]
• Novel biomarker: Potential to predict and treat skin cancer metastasis Thursday, 29 May 2025
  Researchers have identified C5aR1 as a novel biomarker for metastasis risk and poor prognosis in patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), the most common type of metastatic skin cancer. The new study's findings in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, found that C5aR1 promotes the invasion of cSCC tumor cells. Its elevated […]
• HIV discovery could open door to long-sought cure Thursday, 29 May 2025
  New HIV research shows that small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly it replicates and how easily it can reawaken in the body. These insights bring researchers closer to finding ways to flush out the dormant virus and eliminate it for good.