Day February 19, 2016

A campaign from a British nutrition advocacy group is bringing attention to the “shocking” amount of sugar in many of Starbucks’ beverages. Action on Sugar, which describes itself as a group of specialists concerned with sugar and its effects on…

This video is not for the squeamish. Our eyes are incredibly good at keeping germs from taking over. But when contact lenses come into play, the story changes. Contacts can trap germs between the eye, and if the bacteria can…

Throughout all of my years engaging in physical activities and disciplines yoga has never been a practice that stuck with me. Without a doubt yoga has many benefits to offer people ranging from the physiological affects on the body to…

Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have taken a major step forward in the quest to find a genetic approach to treating autism.   In a promising new study conducted on mice, researchers showed that “turning on” a specific gene…

We all have somebody in our lives who rarely goes to the doctor, claiming they are too busy or feel fine. Or maybe that person schedules appointments only to continually bump or reschedule them. I’ve seldom been that person and…

As of Wednesday, over 21,000 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada since the beginning of November, according to the Canadian government. Over half of them are government-assisted refugees, meaning the Canadian government will fund their resettlement efforts, including accommodation, food and…

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, and FISBA AG, a world leader in customized optical components, systems and microsystems, today announced a new microcamera solution for life science applications. FISBA’s FISCamâ„¢ is a customizable microcamera…

By Kate Bass BSc A large study of US adults, conducted collaboratively by state health departments and the CDC, has shown that over a third of the population are regularly not getting enough sleep. This is the first study to…

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A team led by Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Cell Engineering at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has shown for the first time the effectiveness of a new technique that could allow the development …

The ability to map the human genome has transformed how scientists and researchers classify various cancers. In the past, cancer cells were examined through a microscope and their appearance, often enhanced with dyes or other agents, was used to categorize…

IMAGE: In pure bismuth-selenide (left) no bandgap is found. With the addition of magnetic manganese (4 percent; 8 percent), a band gap (dashed line) arises, and electrical conductivity disappears. This effect… view more Credit: HZB Topological insulators appeared to be rather…

IMAGE: This is Bernini’s ‘Anima dannata’, kept at the Spanish Embassy in front of the Holy See. view more Credit: Bernini’s ‘Anima dannata’, kept at the Spanish Embassy in front of the Holy See. (Photo credit: CAROLINA MARCONI). The renowned ‘Animas’,…

IMAGE: The ‘Wordle’ image shows the relative abundance of gene functions ‘fished’ out of the plant databases using the NLR sequence. All of these genes are potential candidates for disease resistance… view more Credit: tagxedo.com – Dr Ksenia Krasileva Plant health…

Nowadays, the lives of the majority of all children with cancer can be spared. However, the cure for the disease comes with a price: some of the survivors will suffer long-term injury from the treatment. A study from Lund University…

IMAGE: Jeanne Loring is professor of developmental neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute. view more Credit: Courtesy of The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA – February 19, 2016 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute…

By now, you’ve probably heard of the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), most popularly linked to football players who receive multiple sub-concussive blows to the head. Briefly, CTE is a type of traumatic brain injury. The disease can be…

It wasn’t too long ago that Don Lemon, anchor of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, went on an emotional journey to Africa to learn his ancestral history. It was a heartening experience, one that seemed wholly impossible to Lemon before…

I ate three pieces of cake last night and I felt completely gross. I realized that sugar makes me feel terrible and I have to give it up completely. I hear that, not infrequently, from my clients. On some level,…

A new video from mom of four and HuffPost blogger Regan Long is showing parenthood in all its messy, chaotic glory. Titled “The Real Deal of Parenting,” the video depicts some of the activities and phenomenons that people with little…

LOS ANGELES –  California officials in charge of workplace safety voted down a proposal Thursday that would have put condoms on porn actors, heeding the call of scores of industry officials who said doing so would force them to make…

(Reuters) – A U.S. man and his sister were sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for cyberstalking that led to the shooting death of the man’s former wife and her friend in a Delaware courthouse lobby ahead of a…

By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New guidelines barring the collection of blood in areas with outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Zika virus will be put to the test first in cash-strapped Puerto Rico, where health officials have two weeks to…

IMAGE: The new carbon-based material for sodium-ion batteries can be extracted from apples. view more Credit: Photo: KIT/HIU A carbon-based active material produced from apple leftovers and a material of layered oxides might help reduce the costs of future energy storage…

Young people with mental problems – especially those with psychotic-like symptoms – should receive help as early as possible and in their own environment. This was the conclusion of a joint study of the University of Helsinki, the Helsinki University…

Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and McGill University in Montreal (Canada) have taken an important step towards developing a drug against cystic fibrosis. In people suffering from this illness the CFTR protein is not located in the right place…

Seagrasses provide the foundation of highly productive ecosystems present along the coasts of all continents except Antarctica, where they rival tropical rain forests and coral reefs in ecosystem services. In colonizing sedimentary shorelines of the world’s oceans, seagrasses found a…

IMAGE: This is a bird’s-eye view of excavation site NEG II in the Jordan Valley. view more Credit: Austin (Chad) Hill ©Leore Grosman Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem revealed in Israel a prehistoric village, dated around 12,000 years ago,…

AUDIO: Patients with acute heart failure often have high levels of the metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) — of which red meat is a major dietary source — according to researchers from… view more Credit: University of Leicester Patients with acute heart…

Pre-Processing MetaCRAM accepts both unpaired and paired-end reads. If paired-end reads are given as an input to MetaCRAM, then the first preprocessing step is to append the read IDs with a “_1” or a “_2” indicating that the read came…

This weekend, I had a pretty harsh wake-up call (that cosmic 2×4 that hits you across the face that you never want) and it knocked me to my knees. (There was a lot of crying involved.) What I realized through…

IBM announced Thursday a deal to buy Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 billion as the US tech giant builds its business in cloud computing and data management for the health industry. The acquisition is by IBM’s Watson Health unit, which…

By Alex Dobuzinskis and Jim Finkle LOS ANGELES/BOSTON (Reuters) – While it was not the first hacked organization to acquiesce to attackers’ demands, the California hospital that paid $17,000 in ransom to hackers to regain control of its computer system…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Media mogul Sumner Redstone was under “undue influence” from people around him when he replaced his designated healthcare agent in October 2015, his ex-girlfriend argued in a court filing on Thursday. The ex-girlfriend, Manuela Herzer, has…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., February 18, 2016–Head and neck cancer patients who receive induction chemotherapy (IC; chemotherapy administered prior to radiation therapy) rather than the standard treatment of concurrent chemoradiation (CRT) do not benefit from increased survival rates and are less likely…

Reporting on the results of a phase III international clinical trial, Johns Hopkins Medicine physicians say use of a cardiac clot-busting drug to treat strokes that cause brain bleeding safely decreased the death rate in patients by 10 percent, compared…

LOS ANGELES — Condoms could be coming to porn studios across California if the state agency in charge of enforcing workplace safety adopts proposed new regulations aimed at protecting actors who make adult films. The state Division of Occupational Safety…

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis has suggested that women threatened with the Zika virus could use artificial contraception, saying there’s a clear moral difference between aborting a fetus and preventing a pregnancy. Francis was asked Wednesday en route…

MILWAUKEE — Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation Thursday that cuts millions of dollars in funding for Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin, which denounced the move as politically motivated and a detriment to the 60,000 women and men it serves in the…

This article originally appeared on Inverse. By Yasmin Tayag Coffee lovers rejoiced when researchers reported on Tuesday that caffeine doesn’t actually give you heart palpitations. Irregular heartbeats — the occasional hiccup or sporadic rapid drumming — have been associated with…