HIV & AIDS

HIV vaccine moves towards clinical trials

A vaccine for HIV developed by Oregon Health Sciences University in collaboration with the California National Primate Research Center is now moving towards clinical trials. The vaccine uses another virus, cytomegalovirus ...

Medical research

Making mice comfy leads to better science, researcher says

Nine out of 10 drugs successfully tested in mice and other animal models ultimately fail to work in people, and one reason may be traced back to a common fact of life for laboratory mice: they're cold, according to a researcher ...

Neuroscience

Brain cell's ability to use fat determines weight gain in mice

Like the body itself, cells within the body of living animals require fuel for energy, but it's not always known how different fuel sources affect the function of those cells. Astrocytes, a type of brain cell, for instance, ...

Medical research

Hunger games: How the brain 'browns' fat to aid weight loss

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have uncovered a molecular process in the brain known to control eating that transforms white fat into brown fat. This process impacts how much energy we burn and how much weight we ...

Medical research

Study reveals origins of body fat

(Medical Xpress)—Yale School of Medicine researchers have answered a question millions regularly and plaintively ask themselves: Where did all that fat come from?

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