A growing body of evidence underscores the importance of human gut bacteria in modulating human health, metabolism, and disease.
Mar 19, 2012
Microglia are the first line defence of the brain and are constantly looking for infections to fight off.
Mar 19, 2012
Enduring subtle, insidious acts of racial discrimination is enough to depress anyone, but African-American men who believe that they should respond to stress…
Mar 15, 2012
For every individual who's a victim of Alzheimer's — some 5.4 million persons in the United States alone — there's a related victim: the caregiver.
Mar 14, 2012
An article released by Social Forces indicates that voter identification requirements have a substantially negative impact on the voting of all groups except for Asians.
Mar 14, 2012
An Atlanta research collaboration may be one step closer to finding a vaccine that will provide long-lasting protection against repeated exposures to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Scientists at Emory University and GeoVax Labs, Inc.
Mar 8, 2012
A survey of adolescents in six European countries found that the more exposure teens had to alcohol use in movies, the more likely they were to binge drink.
Mar 5, 2012
A study of more than 11,000 children followed for over six years has found that young children with sleep-disordered breathing are prone to developing…
Mar 5, 2012
If you want big muscles without working out, there's hope. In the March 2012 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists from the University of Florida report…
Feb 29, 2012
One of the most prominent features of life-size, museum models of Tyrannosaurus rex, is its fearsome array of flesh-ripping, bone-crushing teeth.
Feb 28, 2012
Initiatives by successive governments to provide better access to higher education for young people from less-privileged backgrounds have failed according to Understanding Society, the world's largest longitudinal study.
Feb 28, 2012
Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year the…
Feb 28, 2012
The archaeological examination by robotic camera of an intact first century tomb in Jerusalem has revealed a set of limestone Jewish ossuaries or "bone boxes"…
Feb 28, 2012
Millions of adults suffer from the incurable disease multiple sclerosis (MS). It is relatively certain that MS is an autoimmune disease in which the body's own defense cells attack the myelin in the brain and spinal cord.
Feb 27, 2012
