Day December 28, 2019

Washington, DC – Gay men and lesbian women have often been the targets of prejudice and even violence in society. To better understand what shapes these attitudes and prejudices, Maria Laura Bettinsoli, Alexandra Suppes, and Jamie Napier (all New York…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – How much you enjoy the new Star Wars movie will depend a lot on your expectations going in, a new study suggests. Researchers surveyed 441 people before and after they saw the last episode in the popular…

IMAGE: The proposed combination of materials serves as a memory unit by supporting read and write operations. The spin injection by the topological insulator (TI) material reverses the magnetization of the… view more  Credit: Journal of Applied Physics Scientists at Tokyo…

IMAGE: ESAM deficiency causes high fetal mortality and decreased expression of Alas2, and adult-type globin genes in ESAM-null HSCs impairs development of adult-type erythropoiesis. This shows the contribution of ESAM to… view more  Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers at…

IMAGE: Compared with a control (top left), removal of ?catenin (top right) or Importin-11 (bottom left and bottom right) reduces the growth of colorectal cancer cells carrying a mutation in APC…. view more  Credit: Mis et al., 2019 Researchers at the…

PITTSBURGH, December 27, 2019 – Teenage boys who witness their peers abusing women and girls are much more likely to bully and fight with others, as well as behave abusively toward their dates, compared to teenage boys who don’t witness…

IMAGE: The four US weather regimes (clockwise from top left): Pacific Trough, Arctic High, Alaskan Ridge, Arctic Low. Red indicates warmer conditions and blue colder conditions view more  Credit: Simon Lee Winter weather patterns in North America are dictated by changes…

IMAGE: Study authors Ashish Deshmukh, PhD, MPH; and Kalyani Sonawane, PhD. view more  Credit: Photo by Maricruz Kwon/UTHealth A new study revealed that one dose of the HPV vaccine may prevent infection from the potential cancer-causing virus, according to research published…

Recent evidence suggests a link between cholesterol metabolism and innate immunity. Upon viral infection, macrophages show reduced cholesterol synthesis accompanied by enhanced expression of antiviral genes, including type I interferon (IFN-I). IFN-I can induce 25-hydroxycholesterol (25-HC) accumulation, which blocks viral…

London, UK: A clinical investigation recently published in the journal Cephalalgia, the official journal of the International Headache Society, suggests that migraine patients may exhibit a systemic pathophysiological alteration. The study, entitled “Abnormal cardiovascular response to nitroglycerin in migraine”, was…