When it comes to sprint interval training, men have won the battle of the sexes, according to new research in The FASEB Journal. A new study found that men create more new proteins as a result of…

The germ Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most stomach ulcers, but a new review of the literature published in Alimentary Pharmacology&Therapeutics suggests that treating the bacteria is…

A 21-year study of over 2,300 rivers in Britain measured the presence of clean-river invertebrates - a yardstick for river health –   and found they are the cleanest they've been in over two…

New research in the journal Sleep and being presented Wednesday, June 4th in Minneapolis at SLEEP 2014 suggests that marijuana use is associated with impaired sleep quality. The results show that any…

Kim Stanley Robinson in his famous Trilogy Red, Green and Blue Mars describes a science fiction future with Mars changing colour to green and then to blue. But what also about snowball white after a…

Programmers may not be the guys with the best sense of humor around, but I found it quite entertaining to read a web page with a collection of source code comments arising a smile. The one I liked…

A new study in mice has shown that a previously developed male hormonal (testosterone) oral contraceptive method is unable to stop the production and / or the release of sperm.   Scientists…

A group of researchers have erased memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals' reaction to past events. Then they put them back. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively…

New research reveals that bilingualism has a positive effect on cognition later in life. Findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child…

Like blonde hair? You can thank the Kit ligand gene. A single-letter change in the genetic code is enough to generate blond hair in humans, according to a new analysis by Howard Hughes Medical…

Twenty years after the hormone leptin was found to regulate metabolism, appetite, and weight through brain cells called neurons, a new study in Nature Neuroscience says that the hormone also acts on…

A UCLA research team has discovered a new hormone called erythroferrone, which regulates the iron supply needed for red blood-cell production. Iron is an essential functional component of hemoglobin,…

Researchers have defined a previously unrecognized genetic cause for two types of birth defects found in newborn boys  "Cryptorchidism and hypospadias are among the most common birth defects but…

At the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers reported results of a Phase I trial of OMP-54F28 (FZD8-Fc), an…

If you want to survive your hospital stay, try to avoid being admitted on the weekend.  A systematic review and meta-analysis of various world regions that included 72 studies and 55,053,719…

In the debate over government control of health care in the United States, critics looked at the UK system and its death panels, which drew an arbitrary line on when to stop treatment. Their recent…

While western nations have dropped emissions on schedule, led by the United States, which has pushed its greenhouse gas emissions from energy back to early 1990s levels and coal back to early 1980s…

There is good news for cancer survivors - their numbers continue to grow. There are currently 14.5 million cancer survivors in the USA and that will grow to almost 19 million by 2024, according to…

As targeted therapies become more available, increasing opportunity exists to match treatments to the genetics of a specific cancer - but oncologists have to know these genetics in order to make the…

Kim Stanley Robinson in his famous Trilogy Red, Green and Blue Mars describes a science fiction future with Mars changing colour to green and then to blue. However there are many other colours Mars…