Archive: 16/07/2015

Cell division speeds up as part of antibody selection, study shows

It's a basic principle of immunology: When a germ invades, the body adapts to that particular target and destroys it. But much remains unknown about how the immune system refines its defensive proteins, called antibodies, ...

Jul 16, 2015

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Repeat infection with malaria parasites might make mosquitoes more dangerous

In malaria-endemic regions, humans are often infected repeatedly with the Plasmodium parasite, and the consequences of such multiple infections are under intense study. In contrast, little is known about possible co-infection ...

Jul 16, 2015

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Bilinguals of two spoken languages have more gray matter than monolinguals

A new study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggests people who speak two languages have more gray matter in the executive control region of the brain.

Jul 16, 2015

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Making 'miniature brains' from skin cells to better understand autism

A larger head size—or macrocephaly—is seen in many children with severe autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A new stem cell study of these children by Yale School of Medicine researchers could help predict ASD and may lead ...

Jul 16, 2015

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Orchestrating hair cell regeneration: A supporting player's close-up

The older we get, the less likely we are to hear well, as our inner ear sensory hair cells succumb to age or injury. Intriguingly, humans are one-upped by fish here. Similar hair cells in a fish sensory system that dots their ...

Jul 16, 2015

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New finding on the formation of fat tissue in man

While all red and white blood cells derive from stem cells in the bone marrow, the scientific community has been divided over whether bone marrow cells are also able to produce other cell types. In the present study, the ...

Jul 16, 2015

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Scientists solve breast and ovarian cancer genetic mystery

Francis Crick Institute scientists, funded by Cancer Research UK, have solved a decades-old mystery and helped to unravel the genetic cause of some breast and ovarian cancers, according to new research published in the journal ...

Jul 16, 2015

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Surprise—subtle distractors may divert action more than overt ones

What should have been a straightforward psychology experiment at Brown University instead threw researchers a curve: When subjects performed the simple action of reaching toward a target on a computer screen, the trajectory ...

Jul 16, 2015

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Device delivers drugs to brain via remote control

A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs.

Jul 16, 2015

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Sitting time not associated with poorer diets in US adults

Previously identified associations between TV viewing and a less healthful diet may stem from exposure to advertisements of high calorie foods and 'distracted eating' rather than the activity of sitting itself, although sitting ...

Jul 16, 2015

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