A new study challenges the belief that Alzheimer’s disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy have identical pathology.
Discovery may lead to precision-based strategy for triple negative breast cancer
A researcher in the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, working…
Western bias in human genetic studies is ‘both scientifically damaging and unfair’
Despite efforts to include diversity in research, people of European ancestry continue to be vastly overrepresented and ethnically diverse populations…
Examining ball pits as a playground for pathogenic germs
Ball pits used in children’s physical therapy — similar to those made popular by restaurants catering to families — may…
Pathogenic, drug-resistant bacteria found in wastewater treatment plants
Infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria are a global public health threat causing serious illness and even death. In a new…
Solving the efficiency of Gram-negative bacteria
Researchers have discovered how antibiotic-resistant bacteria construct their defense system — a finding that could lead to new treatments for…
New brain research challenges our understanding of sleep
A new study has for the first time uncovered the large-scale brain patterns and networks in the brain which control…
Bacteria in urine: Not always an indication of infection
Doctors should think carefully before testing patients for a urinary tract infection (UTI) to avoid over-diagnosis and unnecessary antibiotic treatment,…
Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem
New research explains how the shapes of neurons can be classified using mathematical methods from the field of algebraic topology.…
C-sections are seen as breastfeeding barrier in US, but not in other global communities
A new study finds that indigenous mothers in farming communities in Yucatán, Mexico, breastfeed for about 1.5 months longer following…