Transgenic Huntington’s disease monkeys display a full spectrum of symptoms resembling the human disease, strengthening…
Month: July 2016
Immune-enhancing treatment may destabilize HIV reservoirs
Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) can reduce the amount of HIV in the blood to an…
Preventive therapy in brain-injured patients lowers risk of pulmonary embolism, DVT
People who sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at high risk for developing deep…
Computer scientists find way to make all that glitters more realistic in computer graphics
Iron Man’s suit. Captain America’s shield. The Batmobile. These all could look a lot more…
Stop the rogue ADAM gene and you stop asthma
A potential and novel way of preventing asthma at the origin of the disease has…
Brains of college athletes with prior concussion show physical changes months, years later
University athletes with a history of concussion had changes in the size, blood flow and…
Light-bulb moment for stock market behavior
Physicists have discovered that the timing of electronic orders on the stock market can be…
Students calculate how to build Star Trek photon torpedoes
Physics students have boldly gone where no student has gone before — by calculating one…
Lyme disease: You can’t blame the deer
The last decades the disease Lyme borreliosis that is spread by ticks has been increasing,…
Online braggers don’t get dates
As online dating has become a widely accepted way to attract possible romantic partners, scholars…