|  Oatmeal beats ready-to-eat breakfast cereal at improving appetite control  | While obesity is a complex and multifaceted problem, much of the strategy behind combating it boils down to healthy eating habits. Taking into account the primary role of subjective appetite sensations in said habits, a group of researchers recently compared the satiety impact of two popular breakfast choices: oatmeal and ready-to-eat breakfast cereal. | Read More » Chemotherapy: When intestinal bacteria provide reinforcement  | Research has led to a rather surprising discovery on the manner in which cancer chemotherapy treatments act more effectively with the help of the intestinal flora (also known as the intestinal microbiota). | Read More » Why some ear, respiratory infections become chronic  | Scientists have figured out how a bacterium that causes ear and respiratory illnesses is able to elude immune detection in the middle ear, likely contributing to chronic or recurrent infections in adults and children. | Read More » Researchers pioneer first patient-specific 3-D virtual birth simulator  | Computer scientists are working to create a virtual birthing simulator that will help doctors and midwives prepare for unusual or dangerous births. The new program will take into account factors such as the shape of the mother's body and the positioning of the baby to provide patient-specific birth predictions. | Read More » Better prediction for epileptic seizures through adaptive learning approach  | An engineering professor has developed a computational model that can more accurately predict when an epileptic seizure will occur next based on the patient's personalized medical information. | Read More » Heavy drinking bad for marriage if only one spouse drinks  | Do drinking and marriage mix? That depends on who's doing the drinking -- and how much -- according to a recent study. | Read More » Learning, literacy, feminism: empowering reluctant readers using The Hunger Games  | Popular fiction can have a dramatic impact on young people's willingness to read, as the Harry Potter franchise has demonstrated, but three researchers suggest that other lessons may also be learned. To test their theory, they set up a girls-only book club to study the popular series, The Hunger Games. Their findings are now available in a detailed case study. | Read More » Acid rain, ozone depletion contributed to ancient extinction  | Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Some researchers have suggested that this extinction was triggered by contemporaneous volcanic eruptions in Siberia. New results show that the atmospheric effects of these eruptions could have been devastating. | Read More » NASA's solar observing fleet to watch Comet ISON's journey around the sun  | It began in the Oort cloud, almost a light year away. It has traveled for over a million years. It has almost reached the star that has pulled it steadily forward for so long. On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 2013, Comet ISON will finally sling shot around the sun. Here its inward journey through the solar system will end -- either because it will break up due to intense heat and gravity of the sun, or because, still intact, it speeds back away, never to return. | Read More » 'Wise chisels': Art, craftsmanship, and power tools  | It's often easy to tell at a glance the difference between a mass-produced object and one that has been handcrafted: The handmade item is likely to have distinctive imperfections and clear signs of an individual's technique and style. A new project melds personal style and technique with computerized control systems. | Read More » Greenland's shrunken ice sheet: We've been here before  | Think Greenland's ice sheet is small today? It was smaller — as small as it's been in recent history — from 3-5,000 years ago, according to scientists who studied the ice sheet's history using a new technique they developed for interpreting the Arctic fossil record. | Read More » 'Immune gene' in humans inherited from Neanderthals, study suggests  | Scientists have discovered a novel receptor, which allows the immune system of modern humans to recognize dangerous invaders, and subsequently elicits an immune response. The blueprint for this advantageous structure was in addition identified in the genome of Neanderthals, hinting at its origin. The presence of this receptor in Europeans but its absence in early humans suggests that it was inherited from Neanderthals. | Read More » Epigenetic changes may explain chronic kidney disease  | Researchers found, in a genome-wide survey, significant differences in the pattern of chemical modifications on DNA that affect gene expression in kidney cells from patients with chronic kidney disease versus healthy controls. This is the first study to show that changes in these modifications – the cornerstone of the field of epigenetics – might explain chronic kidney disease. | Read More » Tell-tale genes linked to eating disorders  | Until recently, no one knew how eating disorders occur or what triggers them. Recently published research suggests a new strategy to understand eating disorders, and it may lead to innovative treatments. | Read More » Lowering three risk factors could cut obesity-related risk of heart disease by more than half  | Controlling blood pressure, serum cholesterol, and blood glucose may substantially reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke associated with being overweight or obese. | Read More » | |
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