Study assesses amount, patterns of sedentary behavior of older women
Chicago – Among 7,000 older women who wore an accelerometer to measure their movement, about two-thirds of their waking time was spent in sedentary behavior, most of which occurred in periods of less...
View ArticleNonsurgical treatment of periodontitis for persons with diabetes does not...
Chicago – For persons with type 2 diabetes and chronic periodontitis, nonsurgical periodontal treatment did not result in improved glycemic control, according to a study appearing in the December 18...
View ArticleA new electrochemiluminescence immunoassay based on magnetic microbeads as...
In the conventional magnetic immune electrochemiluminescence detection method, magnetic microbeads were usually used as the carrier of capture antibody to achieve rapid binding and separation effect.
View ArticleStudy points to narcolepsy as autoimmune disease
A new study clarifies the role the immune system plays in narcolepsy, offering evidence that the sleep disorder might be an autoimmune disease. The findings could lead to new tests to diagnose...
View ArticleThe first cancer operation room with a navigator is created
A team of researchers from Gregorio Marañón Hospital, the company GMV and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have started the first cancer operation room with a navigator. This image-guided system...
View ArticleIonic liquid-based DLL microextraction coupled with CE to determine drugs of...
Because of the complexity of biological samples and the trace of target analytes in the sample, it is very important to pre-concentrate trace-amount analytes using an efficient extracting method before...
View ArticleSpeaker recognition method based on quantum information processing technology
Under the same spatial and temporal conditions, the quantum computing is superior to the traditional computing. Because a speaker's speech signal features the time-varying property and the randomness,...
View ArticleGenomic secrets of the sister to all flowering plants
The genome sequence of the single species representing the oldest lineage of flowering plants -- a little shrub with creamy white flowers -- is finally here, scientists report, delivering critical...
View ArticleThe sentinel of fertility
The factors that keeps eggs healthy inside ovaries are a bit better understood, thanks to a new study in mice. A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have, it is thought. Scientists know that...
View ArticleA role for parasites in cooperative behavior
Why would anyone help to raise their neighbor’s child? Chances are it would take a strong incentive. Yet, birds do it all the time with cooperative breeding -- a strategy whereby three or more...
View ArticleScience’s top 10 breakthroughs of 2013
The cancer research community experienced a sea change in 2013 as a strategy, decades in the making, finally cemented its potential. Promising results emerged from clinical trials of cancer...
View ArticleBrain repair after injury and Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at Penn State University have developed an innovative technology to regenerate functional neurons after brain injury, and also in model systems used for research on Alzheimer’s disease. The...
View ArticleIdentification of global lysine succinylation substrates in escherichia coli
A recent study from the Chemical Proteomics Center of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, reported the first quantitative proteomics study of lysine succinylation, a recently discovered protein new...
View ArticleNew research offers hope for vaccine and therapies for deadly infections
Mucormycosis is a deadly infection that strikes people with weakened immune systems when certain types of fungi, called Mucorales, invade the patients' cells. A novel protein on the surface of the...
View ArticleAn improved method of object collision detection based on distance fields
This paper presents a novel method of real-time collision detection in virtual environments based on spherical harmonics and distance fields.
View ArticleHypoxic preconditioning stimulates angiogenesis in ischemic penumbra after ACI
Hypoxic preconditioning has been shown to have protective effects against acute cerebral infarction. To investigate the protective mechanisms of hypoxic preconditioning in relation to its effects on...
View ArticleTransient receptor potential channel A1 may contribute to hyperalgesia
Transient receptor potential channel A1 is one of the important transducers of noxious stimuli in the primary afferents, which may contribute to generation of neurogenic inflammation and hyperalgesia.
View ArticleAn expert consensus on acute thoracolumbar spine and spinal cord injury in China
The early management of acute thoracolumbar spine and spinal cord injury is one of the most difficult tasks when treating trauma cases.
View ArticleGender-related differences in immune response to flu vaccine
Male immune systems produced weaker responses to flu vaccines than female immune systems, possibly due to a set of genes that may be regulated by testosterone, according to a study. Women's immune...
View ArticleHuman hunter-gatherers, animals may use similar foraging patterns
A study finds that human hunter-gatherers' foraging behavior sometimes follows a pattern called a Lévy walk, a random walk pattern consisting of mostly short steps with occasional long travels.
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