Neuroscience
How our brains create breathing rhythm is unique to every breath
Breathing propels everything we do—so its rhythm must be carefully organized by our brain cells, right?
Mar 3, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Drop the C-word to reduce anxiety and overtreatment, say experts
Medical researchers are calling for the word 'cancer' to be dropped from some doctor-patient conversations in a bid to reduce patient anxiety and harm from over treatment.The appeal in today's BMJ follows mounting evidence ...
Aug 13, 2018
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Immunology
Gut cells sound the alarm when parasites invade
To effectively combat an infection, the body first has to sense it's been invaded, then the affected tissue must send out signals to corral resources to fight the intruder. Knowing more about these early stages of pathogen ...
Dec 28, 2020
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Inflammatory disorders
How interleukin-6 helps prevent allergic asthma and atopy by suppressing interleukin-2 signaling
The immune system has a biological telecommunications system—small proteins known as interleukins that send signals among the leukocyte white blood cells to control their defense against infections or nascent cancer. Interleukin-6, ...
May 6, 2023
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Medical research
Three new classes of obesity-related adipocyte progenitor cells identified
A team of researchers with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has identified three new classes of obesity-related adipocyte progenitor cells in humans. In their paper published in the journal ...
Neuroscience
Newly found 'volume control' in the brain promotes learning, memory
Scientists have long wondered how nerve cell activity in the brain's hippocampus, the epicenter for learning and memory, is controlled—too much synaptic communication between neurons can trigger a seizure, and too little ...
Jan 9, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain study shows why alcoholics fall off the wagon again... and again
(Medical Xpress) -- A new University of Sussex study adds to our understanding of why recovering alcoholic patients find it so hard to give up boozing for good.
Jun 1, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
Pepper and halt: Spicy chemical may inhibit gut tumors
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that dietary capsaicin – the active ingredient in chili peppers – produces chronic activation of a receptor on cells lining the intestines ...
Aug 1, 2014
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Neuroscience
Why green light helps reduce pain in mice
A team of researchers at Fudan University's, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Institutes of Brain Science, in China, has traced neural activity from the eyes to the ...
Neuroscience
Just made a bad decision? Perhaps anxiety is to blame
Most people experience anxiety in their lives. For some, it is just a bad, passing feeling, but, for many, anxiety rules their day-to-day lives, even to the point of taking over the decisions they make.
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