The gendered brain: Pink and blue or fifty shades of grey matter?
The age-old concept that brains, like bodies, are either female or male is inaccurate and misleading Professor Gina Rippon argues in her book, The Gendered […]
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Investigators map genomic landscape of very rare cancer
A team of Vanderbilt researchers mapped out the genomic landscape of a metastatic malignant proliferating tricholemmal tumor and identified a targeted treatment for this very […]
Read moreI Masturbated Every Day for a Week. This Is What Happened
Do you remember the first time you masturbated? I do. I was seven, maybe eight. Home with a fever, I spent the day completely submerged […]
Read moreZoonoses: Antimicrobial resistance shows no signs of slowing down
Data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reveals that antimicrobials used to treat […]
Read moreNew method uses AI to screen for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), Queen’s University (Ontario) and Duke University have developed a new tool that can screen children for fetal […]
Read moreCancer survivors see mostly positives in how they have changed
Two years after diagnosis, breast cancer survivors have four times more positive than negative thoughts about changes they experienced because of their illness, a new […]
Read moreNovel 5-minute workout improves blood pressure, may boost your brain
Could working out five minutes a day, without lifting a single weight or jogging a single step, reduce your heart attack risk, help you think […]
Read moreTeam discovers secret to making immune cells better cancer killers
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a defect in immune cells known as “killer T cells” that explains their inability […]
Read moreUnderstanding Mental Health Problems – Are You Suffering from One?
To put it simply, mental health problems cause people to feel and think differently from others. Other people might think that the individual with mental […]
Read moreScientists uncover how high-fat diet drives colorectal cancer growth
As cancer death rates drop overall, doctors have noted a frightening anomaly: deaths from colorectal cancer in people under 55 appear to be creeping up. […]
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