Archive: 31/10/2016

Understanding the fascinating interaction between bone and brain

"The best news is that the brain has become front and centre in the regulation of bone modelling", conclude authors Professors Paul Dimitri and Cliff Rosen in their concise review of the complex role of the central nervous ...

Oct 31, 2016

Scientists identify missing link between smoking and inflammation

It's no secret that using tobacco is bad for you, but what has been a mystery until now is how tobacco causes increased inflammation throughout the body. Now, a team of researchers from the United States and Sweden have learned ...

Oct 31, 2016

New sperm research could lead to cut in infertility rate

Sperm and mathematics don't appear to be the likeliest of bedfellows - but new research bringing the two together could lead to devices that could cut infertility rates.

Oct 31, 2016

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Understanding mind-wandering could shed light on mental illness

If you think the mind grinds to a halt when you're doing nothing, think again.

Oct 31, 2016

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Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size'

Researchers have identified 12 specific areas of the DNA sequence that are robustly related with the age at which we have our first child, and the total number of children we have during the course of our life. The study, ...

Oct 31, 2016

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Researchers watch in 3-D as neurons talk to each other in a living mouse brain

No single neuron produces a thought or a behavior; anything the brain accomplishes is a vast collaborative effort between cells. When at work, neurons talk rapidly to one another, forming networks as they communicate. Researchers ...

Oct 31, 2016

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Making sense of the seneses: 'Context' matters when the brain interprets sounds

The brain's interpretation of sound is influenced by cues from other senses, explaining more precisely how we interpret what we hear at a particular moment, according to a report published in Nature Neuroscience online Oct. ...

Oct 31, 2016

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Researchers reveal genomic landscape of core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia

An international team of researchers from the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP) has completed a detailed map of the genomic landscape for core-binding factor ...

Oct 31, 2016

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Zika infection causes reduced fertility, low testosterone in male mice

Most of the research to understand the consequences of Zika virus infection has focused on how the virus affects pregnant women and causes severe birth defects in their developing fetuses.

Oct 31, 2016

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How the fruit fly's brain knows where the fruit fly's going

When we turn our head to one side, the visual field "turns" the other way. When we are on a train, the landscape slides by us. However, we know that we are the ones moving, while the world remains in place. How does the brain ...

Oct 31, 2016

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