Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine using MRI scans and computer modeling say they have further pinpointed areas of the human brain that regulate efforts to deal with fatigue.
The findings, they say, could advance the development of behavioral and other strategies that increase physical performance in healthy people, and also illuminate...
A team of researchers from the University of Toronto Engineering and the University of Michigan has redesigned and enhanced a natural enzyme that shows promise in promoting the regrowth of nerve tissue following injury.
Their new version is more stable than the protein that occurs in nature and could lead to...
MS is an autoimmune condition that affects around 400,000 people in the United States and 2.5million people worldwide.
The condition affects the central nervous system, tricking the immune system into attacking the protective myelin sheath that surrounds the nerve cells.
The medical community has not yet identified the cause of MS. Many...
Chemotherapy works by attacking rapidly dividing cells within the body. But small pockets of cancer cells can withstand its assault, allowing cancer eventually to return.
Gaining a better understanding of why some cancer cells survive while others die is critical for making chemotherapy more effective, says Jun Hee Lee, Ph.D., a...
The world's largest review to date has recently established just how important urban green space is for staving off premature death.
Some 63% of people in the United States live in cities. Some cities are greener than others — Philadelphia, for example, has a long history of urban greening and is...
Australian researchers have discovered that removing copper from the blood can destroy some of the deadliest cancers that are resistant to immunotherapy using models of the disease.
Dr.Orazio Vittorio and his team from Children's Cancer Institute in Sydney and UNSW Sydney published the findings today in the journal Cancer Research.
While immunotherapy,...
As an increasing number of bacteria develop antibiotic resistance, scientists are looking beyond this family of medications that has served us so well up until now.
As the usefulness of antibiotics begins to wane, there is an urgent need to develop new ways to treat infections.
Now, researchers at the University of...
The simultaneous stimulation of the motor nerves of the brain and limbs (paired associative stimulation) has yielded promising research results. Research conducted at the BioMag Laboratory, operated by the University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, and Aalto University, has previously demonstrated that simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain and...
A new study, published in Nutrition and Metabolism, from researchers with the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Nutrition Obesity Research Center observed improvements in body composition, fat distribution, and metabolic health in response to an eight-week, very low-carbohydrate diet.
Older adults with obesity are at a particularly high risk of developing...
It is usually difficult to predict how well drugs will work when they are combined. Sometimes, two antibiotics increase their effect and inhibit the growth of bacteria more efficiently than expected. In other cases, the combined effect is weaker. Since there are many different ways of combining drugs -- such...
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