Mushrooms Help to Keep the Cognitive Decline at Bay
Mushrooms reduce the chances of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) usually seen among the elderly. The stage between the cognitive decline of healthy aging and the more severe decline…
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Do Lipsticks Used During Pregnancy Lead to Allergies in the Newborn?
Did you know that pregnant women who apply leave-on aromatic personal care products (PCPs) may increase the risk of developing numerous diseases in infants? Wang Shu-li, a…
What Happens When Humans Start Thinking Like Computers?
We invented machines that could think like humans and reduce the work of humans; these came to be known as the computers. But researchers at John Hopkin’s University have come up…
Physicists Discover a Simple Mechanism in Bacteria for Resistance to Antibiotics
Physicists played a significant role recently in understanding how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics. The study published in the journal Nature Communications Biology…
Sleeping Helps Clearing the DNA Damaged While You Are Awake
We always find excuses to get some more hours of sleep. Now even the scientists of Bar-Illan University in Israel have published a study in Nature Communications that insists on…
Mosquitoes Can Hear You From 10 Meters Away!
Until recently, it was believed that eardrums were required for long-range hearing, but mosquitoes and some insects use their feathery antennae with fine hairs to hear close…
Keep Off the Dust From Food to Maintain Healthy Teeth
We maintain several good habits like brushing the teeth twice and so on to maintain healthy teeth. The researchers at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have come…
Hepatocytes Make the Liver Most Susceptible to Cancer
Previous studies have already shown that among all the organs in the body that are susceptible to cancer when it spreads, liver is the one. However, the researchers didn’t know the…
Having More Children May Lead to Longer Life
As strange as the title seems, so is the recent discovery made by the researchers at Simon Fraser’s University. According to the study, the number of children a woman has gives an…
Healthy Diet Can Help Combat Depression
Depression, along with anxiety disorders affects over 300 million people worldwide. They are termed as “common mental disorders”(CMDs) due to their prevalence globally. Other than…
The Surprising Discovery of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in Remote Arctic Soil
How fast can bacteria disseminate and carry harmful genes? Well, the study conducted by Jennifer Roberts, professor, and chair of geology at the University of Kansas, in the remote…
Engineers Design Placenta-on-a-Chip
Human placenta is responsible for providing oxygen and the other nutrients to the baby. But a team of engineers at Iowa State University have designed an artificial placenta that…