News tagged with human interaction


Did evolution give us inflammatory disease?

In new research published on March 21, 2013 in the online issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) demonstrate that some variants in our genes that contribute to a p ...

Genetics created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What impact does a day of roller derby have on our skin microbiome?

The human skin is home to countless microorganisms that we can't see, but these microbes help define who we are. Our invisible passengers – known as the skin microbiome - contribute to our health in numerous ways including ...

Other created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Virtual superheroes more helpful in real world too

Having virtual super-powers in a game may incite people to better behavior in the real world, according to research published January 30 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Robin Rosenberg and colleagues from Stanford Univer ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Network's 'it takes a village' approach improves dementia care and informs research, study shows

The approach of the Indianapolis Discovery Network for Dementia—with contributions from family members, community advocates, health care systems and researchers—improves dementia care and informs dementia research, according ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists identify 5 genes that determine facial shape

(Medical Xpress)—European researchers have discovered that five genes play a key role in determining human facial shapes. Presented in the journal PLoS Genetics, the genome-wide association study on fac ...

Genetics created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Charting the SH2 pool

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Cell Communication and Signaling describes a large set of interactions (interactome) which maps the range of phosphotyrosine (pTyr)-dependent interactions with S ...

Medical research created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Gene-gene interactions important to trait variance

(Medical Xpress)—Gaining more insight into predicting how genes affect physical or behavioral traits by charting the genotype-phenotype map holds promise to speed discoveries in personalized medicine. But ...

Genetics created Sep 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ENCODE project: Yale team finds order amidst the chaos within the human genome

The massive Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) unveiled Sept. 5 reveals a human genome vastly more rich and complex than envisioned even a decade ago. In a key supporting paper published in the journal Nature, the lab of ...

Genetics created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists unravel genetic 'hairballs'

(Medical Xpress)—Some scientists call them "ridiculograms." Others use the term "hairballs."

Genetics created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Making sense out of the biological matrix of bipolar disorder

The more that we understand the brain, the more complex it becomes. The same can be said about the genetics and neurobiology of psychiatric disorders. For "Mendelian" disorders, like Huntington disease, mutation of a single ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Aug 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel technique demonstrates interactions between malaria parasite and HIV

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2011 there were 216 million cases of malaria and 34.2 million people living with HIV. These diseases particularly afflict sub-Saharan Africa, where large incidence ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Green biased' yellow fever swept through Irish immigrants in 19th century US

New research by University of Warwick historian Dr Tim Lockley has found why yellow fever had a green bias in 19th century fever outbreaks in the southern states of the US. Almost half of the 650 people killed ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New ways viruses affect human immune response discovered

(Medical Xpress) -- New ways that viruses manipulate the human immune response have been revealed in a research paper just published in Nature involving TCD scientists. Dr Orla Mulhern and Professor Andrew Bowie, School of Bio ...

Immunology created Aug 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Are Computer Tutors the key to learning for Autistic pupils?

A series of open days for school pupils with autism have been held at the University following a three-year-long project funded by EPSRC during which researchers worked with the youngsters to develop a computer-based ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Jul 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Regulation by proteins outside cancer cells points to potential new drug target

Protein interactions outside breast cancer cells can send signals to the cancer cells to permanently stop proliferating, a new study showed in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.

Cancer created Jul 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast