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May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
The Alternative Treatment for Lower Back Pain - Yoga Myth Debunked
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Chronic lower back pain is costing the United States more than $200 billion every year.
As the leading cause of disability in the world, there is a real effort by scientists to find effective treatments for people, which does not involve medical intervention like pain killers, or in extreme cases, surgery.
To help give evidence towards alternative chronic lower back pain treatments, a new study lead by Robert B. Saper at Boston Medical Centre, carried out over 1 year set out to see if yoga...
New method can tell how long bacteria takes to wait out antibiotics
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a major health concern in treating infectious diseases. Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new method for measuring the time it takes to destroy a bacterial population. This could be used to successfully treat bacterial infections that are becoming multi-drug resistant.
Bacteria can gain resistance by collecting mutations. Mutations are changes in DNA, which can ultimately lead to changing the behavior of bacteria. As a...
You have proteins on your mind
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Food cravings are something we are all familiar with but scientists have only just begun to understand the science behind them.
In a new study by Professor Mark N. Wu at John Hopkins University, published in Science, scientists established the circuit of brain cells which controls fruit fly hunger for a protein diet.
This is especially important for understanding how the brain controls hunger for certain nutrients may help in the treatment of obesity in humans.
Animals are known to change...
Why black and white stripes trigger seizures
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Sleep unlocks secret of youth for the elderly
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
As we age, our nights can become more eventful with regular toilet trips, spells of wakefulness and the many other annoyances that disrupt a good night's slumber. According to neuroscientists, this doesn't mean that the elderly need less sleep overall.
A recent review published in Neuron highlighted that the aging population are more likely to suffer memory loss as well as a wide range of mental and physical disorders, such as diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, depression and even cancer, if their...
New treatment might provide faster recovery from Tuberculosis
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
A study has revealed that that a new drug regimen for tuberculosis could reduce treatment time by up to 75% as well as cutting the risk for the development of drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) in patients.
According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 10.4 million new cases of TB were reported in 2015 and of those 1.8 million died. There were also at least 480,000 new cases of multi-drug resistant TB in 2015. It comes as no surprise that TB is a global health problem as it overtakes HIV...
Genes not solely to blame for different types of autism
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Scientists have revealed a new cause of autism spectrum disorders that has nothing to do with your DNA. These disorders share similar modifications in the brain that are independent of genetic activity.
The study, conducted at the Genome Institute of Singapore, showed that nearly 70% of individuals with both rare and common types of autism spectrum disorder display a similar pattern of histone acetylation.
Histone acetylation is the chemical change of the scaffold around which DNA wraps itself....
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May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Scientists teach computers to read mammograms
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Scientists teach computers to read mammograms
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
The same hormone could be responsible for love and aggression
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
In our day-to-day lives we are called upon to make instantaneous "engage or avoid", snap judgments when encountering new people; these judgments may play significant roles in our future interactions, such as choosing a potential mate, for example, or sidestepping or taking on conflict. Behavioral and social cognition research, including a recent study published by a team at the University of Bonn in Germany and the University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu, China led by Prof....
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