Does daylight saving time change disrupt your health?
Daylight saving time ended on Nov. 7 in the U.S. and Canada, meaning clocks are set back one hour. But does gaining or losing an hour of sleep affect a person's health?
Nov 10, 2021
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Daylight saving time ended on Nov. 7 in the U.S. and Canada, meaning clocks are set back one hour. But does gaining or losing an hour of sleep affect a person's health?
Nov 10, 2021
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COVID-19 patients have differing immune responses that lead to disease outcomes ranging from asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection to death. After examining the blood samples from nearly 200 COVID-19 patients, researchers have ...
Sep 6, 2021
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The brain is not a passive recipient of injury or disease. Research has shown that when neurons die and disrupt the natural flow of information they maintain with other neurons, the brain compensates by redirecting communications ...
Jun 24, 2021
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The fast-spreading UK, South Africa, and Brazil coronavirus variants are raising both concerns and questions about whether COVID-19 vaccines will protect against them. New work led by Bing Chen, Ph.D., at Boston Children's ...
Mar 17, 2021
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A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to disease: oxidative stress and inflammation, genomic alterations ...
Mar 5, 2021
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A 'biological age' score predicts that being male, overweight, a smoker and having depression all contribute to biological aging, a study published today in eLife reports.
Feb 9, 2021
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New findings suggest that late-onset Alzheimer's Disease is driven by epigenetic changes—how and when certain genes are turned on and off—in the brain. Results were published today in Nature Genetics.
Sep 28, 2020
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What does pizza have to do with infant health in the Peruvian highlands? According to research published in the American Journal of Human Biology from Penn anthropologist Morgan Hoke, a whole lot—but it goes beyond the ...
Sep 14, 2020
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Scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Arizona, have discovered previously unreported genetic and cellular changes that occur in the ...
Jul 8, 2020
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University of Virginia professors Joanna Lee Williams and Richard J. Bonnie believe that adolescence is a period of "extraordinary" opportunity for learning and exploration, and for laying a strong foundation for a successful ...
Mar 10, 2020
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