Health

Over 30 million Americans (roughly 10% of the population) have type II diabetes, a disease characterized by insulin resistance which is ca1used primarily by obesity…
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The evolution of the human genome has been facilitated to a great extent by the activity of transposable elements (TEs), also known as “jumping genes”….
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Depression is a mental illness that affects nearly 320 million people around the world. It is the second-highest cause of work disability, and some projection…
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As a former Olympic sprinter, I suffered from my fair share of hamstring injuries across my career. And I’m not alone; these types of injuries…
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Ebola virus and Marburg virus (MARV) are closely related filoviruses that cause severe hemorrhagic fever disease in humans and nonhuman primates and have high fatality…
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Published by Jack Pryor and Stephanie Simonds Department of Physiology, Monash Biomedical Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia These findings are described in the article entitled…
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Published by Pat Rasmussen Exposure and Biomonitoring Division, Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, HECSB, Health Canada, Ottawa, and the Department of Earth and Environmental…
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Understanding the brain is one of the challenges of the 21st century and the target of a large number of research projects currently funded around…
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Published by Sarah White, Kajsa Brimdyr, and Karin Cadwell Healthy Children Project, Inc., 327 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich, MA These findings are described…
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Published by Paul Leigh University of California Davis School of Medicine and Center for Poverty Research These findings are described in the article entitled Minimum…
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Published by Barbara Mulloy and Chris Rider Imperial College London, Department of Medicine and the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control These findings are described…
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