Just one dose of a new nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine was enough to produce an immune response in animals on track with vaccines currently in clinical use. And with minor changes, Northwestern University researchers ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Astudy published in the journal Psychological Science found that young adults—contrary to how they are sometimes portrayed in the media—tend to make highly rational decisions when it comes to selecting potential romantic ...
Oct 16, 2020
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Structure-based drug design revealed that a compound previously investigated for the treatment of head-and-neck cancer could function as a lead compound for the development of drugs to treat hepatitis A virus infection, according ...
Apr 30, 2019
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Suppose you toss a coin and get four heads in a row – what do you think will come up on the fifth toss? Many of us have a gut feeling that a tails is due. This feeling, called the Gambler's Fallacy, can be seen in action ...
Jan 18, 2019
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With advanced neuroimaging tools and clever experimentation CODIR went beyond the neoclassical behavioural economics contention that humans act irrationally; the team actually quantified precisely what information processing ...
Oct 29, 2018
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Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have identified a class of sensory neurons (nerve cells that electrically send and receive messages between the body and brain) that can be activated by stimuli as precise ...
Aug 17, 2017
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A terminally ill 17-year-old has become the first minor to be euthanised in Belgium since age restrictions on such mercy killings in the country were lifted in 2014, it was learned Saturday.
Sep 17, 2016
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Never make a decision when you are hungry. The hormone ghrelin - that is released before meals and known to increase appetite - has a negative effect on both decision making and impulse control. Such were the results of a ...
May 9, 2016
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Belgium carried out more than 2,000 mercy killings last year, the most since euthanasia was controversially legalised in 2002, the government said Wednesday.
Jan 27, 2016
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It turns out that we may not be as good at bargain hunting and taking advantage of supermarket 'offers' as we think. That's according to early results from a study which brain-scanned people undertaking a 'virtual' supermarket ...
Dec 23, 2013
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