But Kyle Flack, an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Kentucky, began to wonder a few years ago if this outcome was inevitable. Maybe, he speculated, there was a ceiling to people’s caloric compensations after exercise, meaning that if they upped their exercise hours, they would compensate for fewer of the lost calories…
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My very first solo apartment in Manhattan was a miniature studio on East 11th Street, nothing more than a quiet room with tall windows and a stove. But I felt so mature having it — a place I was entirely responsible for rather than slipping into the extra bedroom of a space where someone else’s…
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With a rising tide of Covid-19 patients threatening to overwhelm hospitals, public health officials across the United States are reaching for a safety valve that the Northeast used in the spring: borrowing beds in children’s hospitals to care for adults. U.S. hospitalizations are at a record-high of 104,600, according to the Covid Tracking Project, and…
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Leesburg, VA, December 9, 2020–According to an open-access Editor’s Choice article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), post-neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) changes in metabolic metrics from PET/MRI and morphologic metrics from CT were associated with pathologic response and overall survival in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). “Imaging metrics associated with pathologic response and overall…
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“Facing the Challenges on Vaccine Distribution” is the theme of the seventh edition of the FAPESP COVID-19 Research Webinars online seminar series, organized by FAPESP, the São Paulo Research Foundation. Event will take place on December 14, 2020. It will be broadcasted from 10 to 12 a.m (UTC – 03:00). Academic community and journalists are…
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Exposure to the widely used weed-killer glyphosate makes genetic changes to rats that can be linked to increased disease in their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, a new study has found. The study provides evidence that glyphosate-induced changes to sperm from exposed rats could be used as biomarkers for determining propensity in subsequent generations…
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Black neighborhoods had a significantly lower rate of bystander automated external defibrillator (AED) use relative to non-Hispanic/Latino white communities, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods also had lower rates of AED use, according to the study, which was published in a recent edition of Circulation,…
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Scientists at UC Davis Health have discovered that an enzyme in the colon lining releases hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) – a known disinfecting compound- to protect the body from gut microbes. Their study, published Dec. 9 in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, sheds light on the way microorganisms are spatially organized in the colon. It…
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BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, December 9, 2020 – Jin Kim Montclare, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and director of the Montclare Lab, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Montclare was cited by the NAI for “Her prolific spirit of…
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ATLANTA–We all run from a burning building the same way–fast!–but how we describe it depends on the language we speak. In some languages, we might flee, race, or bolt, while in others we might just exit or leave the building quickly.. Different languages describe motion differently, according to distinct lexical rules. And though we may…
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