Philadelphia, April 2, 2019 — In children who have experienced early institutional care, a strong relationship with their adoptive parents plays a positive role in brain development and the child’s long-term mental health, according to a new study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier. Childhood is a time when parents…
Details
IMAGE: The researchers equipped a cellular protein (gray) with a modified lysine amino acid building block (pink), to which the bacterial enzyme sortase (yellow) transmits a ubiquitin molecule (blue). view more Credit: K. Lang / TUM Human cells have a sophisticated regulatory system at their disposal: labeling proteins with the small molecule ubiquitin. In a first,…
Details
Researchers at the University of York have shown that regulations on smokeless tobacco are still lacking, despite 181 countries agreeing to a common approach to controlling the demand and supply. The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, highlighted that of the 181 countries using the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), only 138 define…
Details
IMAGE: Participants first saw images of scenes together with one of two objects. Later they only saw the scene images and were asked to remember which object was associated with the… view more Credit: © Cognitive and Clinical Neurophysiology Group/Uni Bonn When looking at a picture of a sunny day at the beach, we can almost…
Details
IMAGE: This is image shows human HD neurons in green in a culture differentiated from patient HD iPSCs (induced pluripotent cells). Increased levels of Rac1 activity were measured in HD neuronal… view more Credit: CHDI, Inc. and Dake Family Fund. Amsterdam, NL, April 3, 2019 — Since 1993, when the gene that causes Huntington’s disease (HD)…
Details
IMAGE: Human tissue poster. view more Credit: Janine McCarthy, M.P.H. & Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H. WASHINGTON—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine—a nonprofit with more than 175,000 members including doctors, scientists, and laypeople—has launched a new effort today to encourage people to become organ and tissue donors to help scientists save human lives and reduce and replace animal…
Details
Image CreditIllustration by Brian Rea What kind of love story can you share in a tweet, an Instagram caption or a Facebook post? The Modern Love team is inviting college students worldwide to tell us a love story from their own lives — happy or sad, capturing a moment or a lifetime — in no…
Details
Low libido, or reduced sexual desire, can affect both men and women. It is not unusual for a person’s interest in sex to fluctuate over different periods of their life due to hormonal changes, age, and stress. However, low libido can be a problem if it causes stress, affects a person’s overall well-being, or leads…
Details
The Senate Commerce Committee is investigating whistle-blower claims that Federal Aviation Administration safety inspectors who evaluated Boeing’s 737 Max airplane were not appropriately trained or certified. On Tuesday, the committee chairman, Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, sent a letter to the F.A.A. demanding information about whether the agency had investigated those allegations or taken…
Details
A wide swath of Mozambique devastated by Cyclone Idai two weeks ago is now at a tipping point, humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday. About two million people have seen their homes or crops destroyed, and cholera is spreading fast. Malaria, measles and starvation may follow unless help reaches enough people quickly. At the same time,…
Details