The powerful potential of nano technologies and AI to detect oral cancer earlier and more accurately have been revealed by a University of Otago — Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study.
Researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry combined atomic force…
Category: 5. Health
-
Gestational diabetes linked to ADHD in children
An Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has found children born to mothers who experienced gestational diabetes (GDM) during pregnancy are more likely to develop attention-deficient hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and externalising behaviour.
The…
Continue Reading
-
High blood pressure? Eat more bananas
New research from the University of Waterloo suggests increasing the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium intake may be more effective for lowering blood pressure than simply reducing sodium intake.
High blood pressure affects over 30 per cent of…
Continue Reading
-
Sleep matters: Duration, timing, quality and more may affect cardiovascular disease risk
Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, daytime functioning and self-reported sleep satisfaction, and addressing these different dimensions of sleep may help to…
Continue Reading
-
Light bulb moment for understanding DNA repair switches
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.
The publication of two papers demonstrates how work led by laboratories…
Continue Reading
-
New method for detecting nanoplastics in body fluids
Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in organs, blood and other body fluids. In the FFG…
Continue Reading
-
Stress, depression factor into link between insomnia, heavy drinking
Insomnia and hazardous drinking are so closely intertwined that estimates suggest at least one-third, and as many as 91%, of people who have a hard time with sleep also misuse alcohol.
A new study suggests that perceived stress and depression…
Continue Reading
-
New tool for cutting DNA: Promising prospects for biotechnology
An INRS team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA.
A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a derivative of…
Continue Reading
-
Recently discovered immune cell type is key to understanding food allergies
The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies can result. Immune cells are known to ignore or “tolerate” molecules found on the body’s own healthy cells, for instance,…
Continue Reading
-
Combination of drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks
Patients who receive an add-on medication soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive it later, or not all.
This is according to a new study from researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Imperial…
Continue Reading