Health
Short sleepers are four times more likely to catch a cold: Researchers connect sleep loss to higher rates of illness
Scientists have long associated sufficient sleep with good health. Now they've confirmed it.
Aug 31, 2015
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Neuroscience
Using fruit flies to understand how we sense hot and cold
Innately, we pull our hand away when we touch a hot pan on the stove, but little is known about how our brain processes temperature information. Northwestern University scientists now have discovered how a fruit fly's brain ...
Mar 4, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Twists, turns, eventually lead to promising Ebola vaccine
It took 16 years of twists and turns. Over and over, Dr. Nancy Sullivan thought she was close to an Ebola vaccine, only to see the next experiment fail.
Feb 9, 2015
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Immunology
Cold virus replicates better at cooler temperatures
The common cold virus can reproduce itself more efficiently in the cooler temperatures found inside the nose than at core body temperature, according to a new Yale-led study. This finding may confirm the popular yet contested ...
Jan 5, 2015
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Inflammatory disorders
Study finds potential new target to treat asthma attacks brought on by colds
Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that could explain why the common cold can bring on life-threatening asthma attacks.
Oct 1, 2014
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Neuroscience
Small mutation changes brain freeze to hot foot
Ice cream lovers and hot tea drinkers with sensitive teeth could one day have a reason to celebrate a new finding from Duke University researchers. The scientists have found a very small change in a single protein that turns ...
May 8, 2014
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Medical research
Researchers find new rhinovirus infection insights
(Medical Xpress)—On average, each of us catches a cold two to three times a year. However, how the common cold virus actually infects us is only partly understood. Researchers from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the ...
Dec 31, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Chilly temperatures help cancers grow
At low temperatures the human body has a hard time. As the cold sets in, blood vessels constrict to maintain heat and some body parts – like fingers and toes – begin to suffer. Metabolism ramps up to fight the cold and ...
Nov 18, 2013
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Immunology
Children of lower socioeconomic status grow up more susceptible to catching colds, researchers find
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found an association between lower socioeconomic status during childhood and adolescence and the length of telomeres, protective cap-like protein complexes at the end of chromosomes, ...
Nov 1, 2013
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Medical research
Model virus structure shows why there's no cure for common cold
In a pair of landmark studies that exploit the genetic sequencing of the "missing link" cold virus, rhinovirus C, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have constructed a three-dimensional model of the pathogen ...
Oct 28, 2013
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