Bread baking is certainly not new in the modern day. People have been baking bread for thousands of years, and through these years, different types of bread have been developed and also perfected so that we can today enjoy them in many ways. The preparation process is considered a crucial component to ensuring bread can…
One new study finds no evidence to suggest that eating the first meal of the day may help with weight loss. How important is eating breakfast for people trying to lose weight? Every single day, people around the world sit at the table to enjoy what many consider to be “the most important meal of…
IMAGE: UGA researchers Xiangyu Deng (shown) and Shaokang Zhang led a team of scientists who have trained an algorithm called Random Forest to predict certain animal sources of S. Typhimurium genomes. view more A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety in Griffin has developed a machine-learning approach…
Love can make us do crazy things. It often prompts us to behave in counterintuitive ways, like, for example, placing the wellbeing of our loved ones above our own. But why? Such altruism has perplexed and intrigued scientists for centuries. A new study out of UC Santa Barbara explores how an individual’s genetics and brain…
IMAGE: Laurie J. Goodyear, Ph.D., Section Head and Senior Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. view more Credit: John Soares BOSTON – (February 11, 2019) – It’s well-known that exercise improves health, but understanding how it makes you healthier on a molecular level is the question researchers at Joslin…
IMAGE: Mouse nerve cell with partially damaged axons (green) projecting outward from the nucleus. view more Credit: Steven Graham/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Feb. 11, 2019 – Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke and available therapies, such as clot busting drugs or clot removal devices, are focused on limiting the extent of…
IMAGE: Representative coronal 18F-FFNP PET/CT images of MDA-MB-231 (red arrow), 231 PR-A (white arrows), and 231 PR-B (yellow arrow) tumor xenografts (19 d after implantation) from 12 mice imaged 1 h… view more Credit: K Salem et al., University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI Physicians may soon have a new way…
IMAGE: Kent State University researchers Elda and Torsten Hegmann pose with one of the sensors they created that detects toxic gases. The sensors can be made any shape or size and… view more Credit: Kent State University Many homes today include safety devices like smoke, radon and carbon monoxide detectors to warn us of threats our…
Latest U.S. estimates indicate that since 1989, hundreds of thousands of women’s lives have been saved by mammography and improvements in breast cancer treatment. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings point to progress made in early detection and management of breast cancer. Screening mammography for the…
Philadelphia, February 11, 2019 – As marijuana legalization sweeps North America, use of the substance has been on the rise, and the public’s attitude is shifting. An increasing number of people believe that “weed” is the safest recreational drug, one that carries health benefits that outweigh its risks. Those assumptions are challenged in an article…