With science and medicine in the news practically every day on every channel I was looking around for elements that might be fun to incorporate into art and craft projects. I spotted these rainbow …
The World Health Organisation has declared processed meats, including bacon, a class 1 carcinogen – but the data has been met with some criticism.
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Photographer Will Steacy spent five years documenting the decline of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a mirror to the harsh realities facing the newspaper industry today
More than half of people in the UK can't name a famous woman in science - this week, BBC 100 Women aims to change that number.
A study in mice has shown that the olivocochlear reflex acts as an ‘cochlear amplifier’, connecting and coordinating the left and right ears.
Last month, The New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial by R. Alta Charo, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. In the editorial, Charo sharply criticizes Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appointees Valerie Huber, Teresa Manning, Charmaine Yoest, and Katy Talento. Charo takes particular issue with Yoest’s past assertions that abortion increases […]
The therapeutic effects of B-cell depletion in MS may be due to changes in other types of immune cells with which B-cells interact, namely T-cells.
Using neuroimaging, researchers discovered glutamate levels are abnormally high in people with restless leg syndrome. The higher the level of glutamate in patients with RLS, the less sleep they were able to get.
Detoxes and body cleanses have never been more popular. Here, we’ll be looking at autophagy and why it may be the only way to really cleanse your body.
Researchers have identified a new, direct signalling pathway through which motor neurons influence locomotion circuits that generate rhythmic movement.
El legado que dejó el español Santiago Ramón y Cajal, uno de los primeros exploradores de la mente, no tiene par. Quizás por eso sigue siendo el científico clásico más citado de la historia. Sus dibujos revelaron el paisaje del cerebro con tal exactitud que sólo la tecnología más avanzada puede competir.
Find out how to induce bowel movement with these 5 immediate constipation relief remedies for adults and kids at home.
Stem cell research holds huge potential for medicine and human health. In particular, human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), with their ability to turn into any cell in the human body, are essential to the future prevention and treatment of disease.
Researchers investigate the origin and evolution of one of the most famous neurobiology concepts, Penfield's homunculus.
Studies show that exercise is a key ingredient to reducing inflammation. Here we look at which forms of exercise are best.
Extremely long telomeres can make cancer cells immortal. Therefore, you want the optimal length, long enough to protect your DNA and short enough to kill cancer cells. rnrn
The 100,000 Genomes Project hopes they are the first of many
According to a new study, Parkinson's disease could begin in the gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve.
