America’s health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual,…
Month: September 2012
Predicting how patients respond to therapy: Brain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder
A new study has found that brain scans of patients with social anxiety disorder can…
‘I knew it all along … didn’t I?’ — Understanding hindsight bias
The situation may be different each time, but we hear ourselves say it over and…
Stem-cell-protecting drug could prevent the harmful side effects of radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is one of the most widely used cancer treatments, but it often damages…
Immune cell death safeguards against autoimmune disease
Researchers have discovered that a pair of molecules work together to kill so-called ‘self-reactive’ immune…
Master gene affects neurons that govern breathing at birth and in adulthood
When mice are born lacking the master gene Atoh1, none breathe well and all die…
Destroyed coastal habitats produce significant greenhouse gas
Destruction of coastal habitats may release as much as one billion tons of carbon emissions…
Storm of ‘awakened’ transposons may cause brain-cell pathologies in ALS, other illnesses
A team of neuroscientists and informatics experts reports important progress in an effort to understand…
Childhood sexual abuse linked to later heart attacks in men
Men who experienced childhood sexual abuse are three times more likely to have a heart…
Germ cell-supporting embryonic Sertoli-like cells created from skin cells
Using a stepwise trans-differentiation process, researchers have turned skin cells into embryonic Sertoli-like cells.