Researchers have identified 34 neural factors that predict adolescent alcohol consumption. The list, based upon…
Month: August 2016
Nationwide study sets benchmarks for 30-day mortality following chemotherapy for breast and lung cancer in England
For the first time, English national data on 30-day mortality for patients with breast and…
Smokers more prone to bowel condition relapses, study suggests
Smoking is strongly linked to relapse of a serious bowel condition, research has confirmed. People…
Smarter brains are blood-thirsty brains
A new project has overturned the theory that the evolution of human intelligence was simply…
A lost century for forest elephants
Because forest elephants are one the slowest reproducing mammals in the world, it will take…
Experts urge rethink on health target
The concept of premature mortality needs to be either abandoned or redefined if it is…
A rare small specimen discovered from the age of flying giants
A rare small-bodied pterosaur, a flying reptile from the Late Cretaceous period approximately 77 million…
Ethical concerns tied to research on human-animal embryos
Scientists have developed a new bioethical framework for addressing concerns surrounding potentially revolutionary research on…
Understanding how the ‘police’ of the cell world deal with ‘intruders’ and the ‘injured’
The job of policing the microenvironment around our cells is carried out by macrophages. Macrophages…
Bipolar adolescents continue to have elevated substance use disorder risk as young adults
A follow up to a previous study finding an association between adolescent bipolar disorder and…