Brain hormone serotonin may lead to weight loss
Neuroscientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) recently discovered how serotonin, a brain hormone, can lead to weight loss.
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Neuroscientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) recently discovered how serotonin, a brain hormone, can lead to weight loss.
University at Buffalo biologists recently discovered that toxic chemicals commonly found in insecticides have the ability to change the way our biological clocks function. The researchers believe that they have uncovered the previously unknown mechanism by which insecticides put people at higher risk for metabolic diseases like diabetes.
MIT mechanical engineers have developed an easy and cheap method of creating artificial muscle fibers.
Have you ever turned off the lights and gotten into bed, fully intending to go to sleep, when your phone ends up keeping you awake for hours and hours? Scrolling through Instagram and Facebook before bedtime may be a habit people will want to reconsider. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently discovered that the time people spend looking at their smartphone screen, particularly before bedtime, is associated with worse sleep.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking kills approximately 480,000 Americans each year, including nearly 50,000 deaths from secondhand smoke. On average, smokers die about 10 years earlier than nonsmokers. As such, lawmakers, public health officials and advocacy groups all around the world have been pushing to reduce the rates of smoking. Many nations require that health warnings must be printed on cigarette packs and several countries have mandated that graphic images must be printed on the packs as well.
As health care expenditures rise, policy makers and administrators are scrambling to find ways to cut costs. The results of a recently published study indicate that it’s possible for hospitals to decrease expenditures without compromising the quality of patient care by adding more physicians’ assistants (PAs).
Hopkins hosted the biannual hackathon, HopHacks, on Oct. 21. Twice a year, coders from all over the country arrive in Baltimore to compete in a 36-hour app building challenge. This year, HopHacks was co-hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton.
A new Hopkins study showed that 60 percent of gay and bisexual men are unaware of an anti-HIV pill. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a once-daily pill that can dramatically reduce the chances of contracting HIV.
The U.K. placed a ban on microplastics because of a recently published study in Scientific Reports. Scientists working in the mid-Atlantic and southwest Indian Oceans have found evidence that deep-sea animals such as hermit crabs, squat lobsters and sea cucumbers, eat the microbeads, which are typically found in cosmetics and cleaning products.
Hopkins neuroscientists published on Sept. 19 new findings that the brain network involved in numerical reasoning is identical in both blind and sighted people.
The East Asian Studies (EAS) program hosted a seminar titled “Demystifying the Political Participation of Asian Americans” on Tuesday afternoon as its first installment of the EAS Fall Speaker Series. Guest lecturer Pei-te Lien, a professor in political science, Asian American studies and feminist studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, discussed the effects of U.S. racial and ethnic politics on the political perception of Asian Americans.
This semester, students did not pack the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center for the usual activities fair frenzy. Instead, organizations occupied the Breezeway for five days during the new Student Involvement Week.