PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, ENGINEERING SCHOOL IMAGE: PRINCETON RESEARCHERS USED AN ELECTRICAL FIELD TO DIRECT THE MIGRATION OF CELLS. THE RESEARCHERS’ NEW TECHNIQUE IMPROVED THE CONTROLLABILITY OF TISSUES AND COULD SOMEDAY HELP HEALS WOUNDS. ILLUSTRATION BY NEIL ADELANTAR FROM IMAGES BY COHEN ET AL. CREDIT: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY With a technique that overcomes cells’ innate social behaviors, researchers have taken...
(HealthDay)—COVID-19 care is likely to get more expensive for Americans with the expiration of insurers’ temporary waivers on costs associated with treating the illness. Earlier in the pandemic, patients didn’t have their normal co-payments or deductibles for emergency room visits or hospital stays for COVID-19, and most tests were also free, The New York Times...
by Tracey Peake, North Carolina State University Credit: Alicia Harper, Pexels We hear a lot about how probiotics are key to gut health, and therefore an important component of overall health. The same goes for prebiotics, another weapon in the arsenal of gut-helping molecules. But how do pre- and probiotics work, exactly, and are they all...
By Jason Keil The ride home from school can feel like a battle of wills with my oldest son. When I start the car, he’s a bundle of ecstatic energy. But when I begin asking him about his day, his smile vanishes, and he locks his mouth up like a safe. The remainder of the...
by NYU Langone Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain Losing weight and treating excess levels of fat in the blood may help prevent lung disease in firefighters exposed to dangerous levels of fine particles from fire, smoke, and toxic chemicals on Sept. 11, 2001, a new study shows. Experts have long feared that this exposure would later...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may cause problems with a person’s understanding of object permanence. Object permanence refers to the ability to understand that objects exist when they are out of sight. While technically speaking, the potential issue in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not a problem with actual object permanence, there is no...
Mindfulness meditation is the process of purposefully and nonjudgmentally observing thoughts, feelings, and sensations to help provide distance from negative or overpowering feelings of anxiety. It centers around the concepts of awareness and acceptance, and research shows that it has benefits for anxiety, pain management, and other conditions. Anxiety can lead to racing thoughts that...
IMAGE: RICE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT LAUREN TAYLOR SHOWS A SHIRT WITH CARBON NANOTUBE THREAD THAT PROVIDES CONSTANT MONITORING OF THE WEARER’S HEART. CREDIT: JEFF FITLOW/RICE UNIVERSITY HOUSTON – (Aug. 30, 2021) – There’s no need to don uncomfortable smartwatches or chest straps to monitor your heart if your comfy shirt can do a better job. ...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology The new pill can inject large quantities of monoclonal antibodies and other drugs into the lining of the stomach after being swallowed. Credit: Giovanni Traverso In recent years, scientists have developed monoclonal antibodies—proteins that mimic the body’s own immune defenses—that can combat a variety of diseases, including some cancers and autoimmune...
by Ingrid Fadelli , Medical Xpress Credit: Sterpenich et al. Past neuroscience studies have consistently showed that sleep plays an important role in memory consolidation. For instance, some neuroimaging research showed that the brain regions that are activated while humans are encoding waking experiences can later be reactivated during sleep, particularly during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep....
