Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) researchers have identified a function of neuregulin1 (NRG1), a gene previously linked to schizophrenia but whose role in the disease was unknown.
Two genes important for human development and implicated in cancer and schizophrenia also help keep a healthy balance between excitation and inhibition of brain cells, researchers say.
Scientists have shown that a single 2.5mg dose of vitamin D may be enough to boost the immune system to fight against tuberculosis (TB) and similar bacteria for at least 6 weeks.
Consumer Reports ranked “The Volumetrics Eating Plan,” based on research by Barbara Rolls, the holder of the Guthrie Chair of Nutrition at Penn State, as the top-rated diet in its new June issue, released today (May 8).
With summer just around the corner, more kids will be out playing baseball, riding bikes, skateboarding, swimming and enjoying other outdoor recreational activities. After a long winter, many adults are as enthusiastic about delving into outdoor do-it-yourself home repairs, gardening, and recreational activities, as their kids are about playing outside.
Researchers have discovered a new fact about hooded seals, a mysterious 200 to 400 kilogram mammal that spends all but a few days each year in the ocean.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Spring 2007 explores the wide variety of complementary and alternative nursing and medical therapies used by Hopkins nurses and outlines how the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is ?building opportunities? for its faculty, students, and staff.
Bladder, prostate and other urinary tract diseases cost Americans nearly $11 billion a year, according to a new report from the National Institutes of Health. Medicare?s share exceeded $5.4 billion.
Employers can blame hay fever for the loss of millions of hours of work productivity this spring. A new study of nearly 600 people with hay fever symptoms, including sneezing, watery eyes and runny and itchy noses, found that workers missed an hour of work per week during peak hay fever season.
Research increasingly shows promise to both slow and relieve the effects diabetic retinopathy, the most common complication of diabetes.