Meet Ruminococcus bromii, the microbe that loves carbs

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The fascinating human gut bacterium Ruminococcus bromii is one of the ten most common bacterial species found in the colon. This bacterium, first discovered discovered in…

Consistently exercising 2–3 times a week over the long term linked to lower current insomnia risk

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Consistently exercising 2–3 times a week over the long term is linked to a lower current risk of insomnia as well as the ability to clock…

Real-time reconstruction of high-intensity focused ultrasound focal temperature field based on deep learning

Invivo real-time temperature field reconstruction during HIFU treatment using deep learning. Credit: School of Integrated Circuits @ HUST. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a non-invasive technique for tumor ablation. During…

The construction of visual attention highlighted at the neuronal level

Attention being caught. Credit: Mikhail Nilov. A giant billboard flashes on the side of a country road. Why does it catch our attention more easily than other details in the…

More must be done for depressed stroke survivors as incidence climbs, say researchers

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers say that more must be done for depressed stroke survivors, as new findings show 60% of stroke survivors would experience depression within 18 years, a…

Epigenetics is of critical importance in autoimmune-related skin diseases, says study

Credit: Lingyu Gao, Qianjin Lu The central dogma proposed that genetic information predominantly transfers from DNA to RNA during gene expression to make a functional product protein. This absolute theory…

Factors that contribute to differences in cervical cancer screening in rural and urban community health centers

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the United States, community health centers (CHCs) mainly serve historically marginalized populations. New research reveals that both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, females receiving…

A primer on recent measles outbreaks, transmission, symptoms and complications, including ‘immune amnesia’

Microscopic view of a measles virus particle (red). Credit: CDC and NIAID, CC BY Canada is seeing a resurgence of measles, with cases in the first quarter of 2024 already…

Lab tests show THC potency inflated on retail marijuana in Colorado

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cannabis flower sold in Colorado claims to contain much more tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, than it actually does, according to my findings published in the peer-reviewed journal…

Is your blood aging your brain? It might increase your dementia risk

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain By 2050, the global population of adults 60 and older will approximately double, leading to upward of 153 million dementia cases. That’s why University College Cork…