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Overthinking Could Be Driving Creativity In People With Neurotic Disorders
People who suffer from neuroticism – a condition characterised by anxiety, fear and negative thoughts – are extremely tuned in to looking for threats. For that reason, you may expect them to perform...
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Injectable cryogel-based whole-cell cancer vaccines
New research led by Wyss Core Faculty member David Mooney, Ph.D., in collaboration with researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute could potentially yie...See it on Scoop.it, via Medical Science
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3-D model of solid tumors explains cancer evolution | BIOENGINEER.ORG
They're among the most powerful tools for shedding new light on cancer growth and evolution, but mathematical models of the disease for years have faced an either/or stand off. A three-dimensional...
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Human Trial Shows Engineered Immune Cells Could Help Fight Leukemia
A treatment that was awarded Breakthrough Therapy designation by the FDA last year is once again raising hopes for those with B cell cancers. In a recently completed trial, eight out of 14 leukemia...
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Scientists Identify The Neurons That Influence Alcoholism
“I’ll just come out for one drink.” Oh how we repeatedly kid ourselves. It’s good to see that many of us have faith that we can call upon willpower to turn down the offer of just one more, but often it...
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New Test Determines How Fast You're Aging
Even when people are born in the same year, they can often look very different as they age. Some appear younger, and others older than their chronological age. But it's not just looks - earlier this...
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Scientists Have Developed A Patch That Regenerates Damaged Heart Tissue |...
While a heart attack victim might recover from the event, their heart often ends up scarred. This scarring, rather than being superficial like on the skin, can make the heart pump less effectively and...
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Is There A Moral Centre In Our Brain? | IFLScience
Making moral decisions is a complex process. We have to think about the consequences of our actions for ourselves (will I go to jail?), others (will this person suffer as a consequence of my...
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Starving Cancer Cells Of Sugar Could Be The Key To Future Treatment | IFLScience
All the cells in our bodies are programmed to die. As they get older, our cells accumulate toxic molecules that make them sick. In response, they eventually break down and die, clearing the way for...
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Combination Of Two Clinically Approved Drugs Cause Brain Tumor Cells To Eat...
It has been observed that people prescribed antidepressants curiously have a lower incidence of one of the most common, and most aggressive, types of brain tumor. Glioblastomas account for around 15%...
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New Research Shows How To Trap Cancer By Turning Your Body Against The Tumour...
Cancer happens when cells in the body start growing uncontrollably. But what if the tissue surrounding a tumour could be enlisted to stop the cancer spreading? New research gives the first evidence of...
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10 Bizarre Illnesses That Science Has Yet To Explain | IFLScience
Did you know you can be allergic to both your own tears and shower water? You can't even cry about how dirty you are from not being able to shower… it’s cruel. And on the flipside, the so called...
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Why It Hurts To See Others Suffer: Pain And Empathy Linked In The Brain |...
The human brain processes the experience of empathy – the ability to understand another person’s pain – in a similar way to the experience of physical pain. This was the finding of a paper that...
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Here's What Would Happen To Your Brain If You Took A Trip To Mars | IFLScience
Future Mars astronauts will have plenty to contend with if they are ever to make it to the Red Planet. In perhaps one of the most well-known experiments to simulate a trip to the planet, Mars500 had...
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This Amazing Test Could Detect ANY Virus In A Patient's Blood | IFLScience
Better diagnosis leads to better treatment – that’s well-known. Easier said than done, of course, since that’s not always possible when tests for diseases or infections take time to generate results,...
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Bacteria Could Be Used To Prevent HIV Infections | IFLScience
Our war with HIV is far from won, and determined scientists keep adding to our ever-growing antiviral armamentarium in hope of eventual defeat. But how about fighting microbe with microbe? That’s the...
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Environmental Factors Experienced By A Man Could Impact His Grandchildren |...
There has been increasing interest in the idea that lifestyle choices or stressful events during a person’s life might not just impact an individual at the time, but could send out a ripple that also...
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Why Do We Sleep? | IFLScience
Sleep is one of our most basic human needs. We spend about a third of our lives doing it and there are serious health consequences to sleep deprivation. It’s safe to say that sleep is as necessary as...
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Why It Hurts To See Others Suffer: Pain And Empathy Linked In The Brain |...
The human brain processes the experience of empathy – the ability to understand another person’s pain – in a similar way to the experience of physical pain. This was the finding of a paper that...
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First In-Womb Stem Cell Clinical Trial Announced | IFLScience
Stem cell research has the potential to be one of the greatest advances in biomedical science in human history, giving hope to sufferers of painful, destructive diseases across the world.See it on...
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