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Study reveals that maternal emotional well-being during pregnancy is linked to significant brain development benefits in children, particularly in the hippocampal volume of female offspring.

Study in the UK Biobank cohort found vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency significantly increase the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's, and vascular dementia, with supplementation potentially reducing these risks.

study in The Journal of Nutrition shows that pistachios, as a nighttime snack, can improve diet quality in prediabetic patients, with similar effects on glycemic control and vascular health as carbohydrate-rich snacks.

Study establishes Ku70's role in tumor suppression, showing that reduced expression or mutations in this DNA repair protein significantly increase intestinal cancer risk.

Researchers develop a comprehensive database to analyze global food loss and waste, highlighting its environmental and nutritional impact and aiding policymakers in creating sustainable food supply chains.

When it comes to having surgery, older adults don't just base their decision on how much pain they'll feel and how quickly they'll recover, a new study finds.

A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 16, Issue 1, entitled, "XRCC1: a potential prognostic and immunological biomarker in LGG based on systematic pan-cancer analysis."

Inulin supplementation was found to mitigate gut microbiota dysbiosis and skeletal muscle atrophy in rats with severe burns, suggesting a promising approach for improving burn recovery outcomes.

High-grade gliomas are cancerous tumors that spread quickly in the brain or spinal cord.

Researchers discovered that bathing in Japanese hot springs significantly alters the gut microbiota in healthy individuals, offering potential health benefits by increasing certain beneficial bacteria. This is the first study to explore the distinct effects of different hot spring types on the gut microbiome.

Dr. Jeannine Gerhardt, an assistant professor of stem cell biology in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a five-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, for the study of repetitive DNA and RNA sequences and the mechanisms by which they cause cell dysfunction and diseases.

Scientists from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University succeeded in regenerating fully functional urinary bladder tissue in a long-term study utilizing a non-human primate model.

The two most common obesity surgeries – gastric bypass and gastric sleeve – have few short-term complications and are equivalent in that sense.

A new study co-led by Associate Professor Kristin Cleverley of the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing has found evidence that Psychosis Spectrum Symptoms (PSS) are often present in youth accessing mental health services.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health observed rapid and distinct immune system changes in a small study of people who switched to a vegan or a ketogenic (also called keto) diet.

The composition of microbiota found in the gut influences how susceptible mice are to respiratory virus infections and the severity of these infections, according to researchers from the Center for Translational Antiviral Research in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Tomato juice can kill Salmonella Typhi and other bacteria that can harm people's digestive and urinary tract health, according to research published this week in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. Salmonella Typhi is a deadly human-specific pathogen that causes typhoid fever.

A new study in mice shows that replacement of a dysfunctional gene could prolong survival in some people with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), a rare inherited disorder in which the muscular walls of the heart progressively weaken and put patients at risk of dangerous irregular heartbeats.

A weight loss intervention in people with type 2 diabetes was found to alter levels of cancer-related proteins, according to the findings of a new University of Bristol-led study.

In humans, oral health influences general health and well-being in many ways. Other than reducing the need for oral rehabilitation later in life, maintaining good oral health reduces the risk of several systemic diseases.