What you know can affect how you see
Objects—everything from cars, birds and faces to letters of the alphabet—look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests.
View ArticleResearchers unravel pathways of potent antibodies that fight HIV infection
One of the most crucial and elusive goals of an effective HIV vaccine is to stimulate antibodies that can attack the virus even as it relentlessly mutates.
View ArticleNeural networks learn to link temporally dispersed stimuli
Rustling leaves, a creaking branch: To a mouse, these sensory impressions may at first seem harmless - but not if a cat suddenly bursts out of the bush. If so, they were clues of impending...
View ArticleIs educational neuroscience a waste of money?
Educational neuroscience has little to offer schools or children's education, according to new research from the University of Bristol, UK.
View ArticleCleveland Clinic says first uterus transplant in US fails
The nation's first uterus transplant has failed, the Cleveland Clinic announced Wednesday, saying doctors had removed the organ.
View ArticleThe up- and downside of caloric restriction for aging and health
It's already well known that a diet may have a life-extending effect. Researchers from Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena, Germany, now showed that besides improving the...
View ArticleShots for other viruses offer clues in race for Zika vaccine
Scientists are racing to create a Zika vaccine, and while they're starting from scratch against a poorly understood disease, copying shots for similar viruses offers a head start.
View ArticleEli Lilly changes outcome goals in Alzheimer's drug study
Eli Lilly said Tuesday that it's changed the outcome goals for a late-stage patient study of its closely watched experimental drug for Alzheimer's disease, solanezumab.
View ArticleVolunteering for infection in hunt for dengue, Zika vaccines
Forget mosquito bites. Volunteers let researchers inject them with the dengue virus in the name of science—and an experimental vaccine protected them. Next up, scientists plan to use this same strategy...
View ArticleImitating movements could help Alzheimer's patients
Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the Alzheimer's Association. There is no cure and no way to slow or prevent the illness. But, patients can still...
View ArticleUH pharmacology student to present research on Fragile X April 3
Luis Martinez, a pharmacology doctoral candidate at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, has earned a spot to present his research on Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) at the 2016 Experimental Biology...
View ArticleSix new studies point to red raspberry's potential anti-inflammatory properties
A flurry of new research on red raspberries is set to be presented this week at the 2016 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego. Initial findings from six animal model studies reveal the...
View ArticleGilead paying up to $1.2B for Nimbus unit, drug candidate
Biologic drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. said Monday that it will buy a subsidiary of Nimbus Therapeutics LLC and its experimental pill for an increasingly common metabolic disorder that causes...
View ArticlePhysiologists study how athletes respond to icy water conditions
Hundreds of athletes around the globe are diving into frigid waters to compete in one-mile ice swims. Performance and human physiological response in water this cold—it must be 5o Celsius or less to...
View ArticleVocal signals reveal intent to dominate or submit, study finds
You may not win friends, but a new study finds that you can influence people simply by lowering the pitch of your voice in the first moments of a conversation.
View ArticleFirst drug for delusions in Parkinson's patients approved
Federal health officials have approved an experimental drug to treat psychotic delusions and behaviors that often afflict patients with Parkinson's disease, the debilitating movement disorder.
View ArticleExtended rest between weight lifting sets could help muscle growth
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have found that extended rest intervals between sets of weight-lifting could help with muscle growth.
View ArticleResearchers find alternative pathways to HIV antibodies
The immune system appears to hamper an investigational vaccine from inducing antibodies that protect against HIV infection, but there may be ways to overcome this impediment, according to research led...
View ArticleJunk food causes similar high blood sugar levels as type 2 diabetes
A junk food diet can cause as much damage to the kidney as diabetes, according to a study published in Experimental Physiology.
View ArticleDatabase helps researchers connect exposures to health effects, compare diseases
Two new studies from a group at North Carolina State University give researchers new strategies for connecting environmental exposures to human health effects.
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