Un estudio europeo ha analizado la relación entre el consumo de frutas y verduras y el riesgo de mortalidad sobre 451.151 individuos durante más de 13 años. Este trabajo, "el estudio epidemiológico más importante que analiza esta asociación", concluye que comer estos alimentos reduce la mortalidad, especialmente por...

Alrededor del 4% de la población tiene sinestesia, una forma del funcionamiento cerebral que se sale de lo habitual, al asociar la estimulación de un sentido con activaciones en otro. Por ejemplo, percibir colores específicos cuando se leen letras o números. Esta peculiar forma de percepción se......

A specific gene variant is more frequent among elite athletes in power sports, reports a study in the Oct. issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams &...

Many families struggle to afford basic non-food household goods, such as personal care, household, and baby-care products, according to a new nationwide Feed America study that benefited from assistance from the University of Illinois Family Resiliency Center. Nearly three in four low-income...

Millions of people with scars suffer from pain, discomfort, and inability to perform regular activities. Some may have to revert to addicting pain medicine to get rid of their ailments. Now, and with a new methodology, such problems can be treated successfully. Fuente :...

The North Shore-LIJ Health System Department of Radiation Medicine presented a novel study to evaluate the reliability of different systems used by caregivers to assess toxicity for patients receiving radiation therapy. The study will be presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society...

M. Lisa Manning, assistant professor of physics in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, is among a team of scientists working to develop a model for studying tissue -- specifically how it organizes into organs and layers during embryonic development.Their findings may have major...

Veterinarians and women's shelters can make it easier for abused women to decide to leave their homes, particularly when the abuser is using a beloved pet as part of a campaign to control his partner, reports a new University of Illinois study. Fuente :...

Three new grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling more than $25 million over four years will help three research groups to develop authoritative information on the millions of genomic variants relevant to human disease and the hundreds that are expected to be useful for clinical...

Since a considerable amount of health information changes hands in the pharmacy setting, research by pharmacists into evaluating which tools are effective in practice can make a valuable contribution to goals set by the 2010 US National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy and lead to...

A new study suggests that the auditory cortex does more than just process sound. When study subjects were expecting a reward and received it, or weren't expecting a reward and were right, this area lit up on brain scans. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/aps...

In a new study researchers assessed the association of driver drug use, as well as the combination of drugs and alcohol, with the risk of fatal crash. They found that drug use is associated with a significantly increased risk of fatal crash involvement, particularly when used in combination with...

The fossilized remains of a reptile closely related to lizards are the oldest yet to be discovered. Two new fossil jaws discovered in Vellberg, Germany provide the first direct evidence that the ancestors of lizards, snakes and tuatara (known collectively as lepidosaurs), were alive during the...

Using new genetic tools, the authors conclude that the first significant expansion of human populations appears to be much older than the emergence of farming and herding, dating back to the Paleolithic (60,000-80,000 years ago) rather than Neolithic age (10,000 years ago). They also suggest that...

Caregiving is always tough, but it's that much tougher when caregivers have to rely on family ties that are ambiguous, strained or virtually nonexistent, suggests a study. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/e...

For years, scientists have thought that a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous Period more than 90 million years ago when the climate was much warmer than it is today. Now, researchers have found evidence suggesting that no ice sheet formed at this time. This finding could help...

After a decade of rapidly growing industrial use, unimaginably tiny particles surround us everywhere, every day, in everything we do. Used in the manufacturing of cosmetics, clothing, paints, food, drug delivery systems and many other familiar products we all use daily, little is known about the...

Imagine the distance between the sun and the star nearest to it -- a star called Alpha Centauri. That's a distance of about four light years. Now, imagine as many as 10,000 of our suns crammed into that relatively small space. That is about the density of a galaxy that was recently discovered by an...

New research quantifies the potential impacts of increasing wind and solar power generation on the operators of fossil-fueled power plants in the West. To accommodate higher amounts of wind and solar power on the electric grid, utilities must ramp down and ramp up or stop and start conventional...

Astronomers may have found the most crowded galaxy in our part of the universe. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/L...

The focus of eating disorder research has largely been on the state of patients' thoughts, beliefs and emotions, with historically little focus on how current and past body weights contribute. A flurry of studies suggest that past body weight and relative weight loss should be taken into account....

The brains of older people are slowing but experience more than makes up for the decline. Researchers came up with this conclusion after asking the participants a series of financially related questions. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/4...

Information about the FORCE (Fisheries and Aquaculture-Oriented Research Capacity in Egypt) project is now available in a new brochure. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Advantage taken of the high value of the cannon ball jellyfish in the Asian market Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

UNAM (Mexico) proposes green technology that maintains stable slopes Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

IVCC today commended the United Kingdom following the announcement that the UK will contribute £1billion (US $1.6 billion) over the next three years to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tubercolosis and Malaria. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Chemists from Nijmegen have developed a catalyst that binds to DNA, slides over it and splits the molecule in particular places. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

La empresa GenoClinics ha desarrollado un test genético para la detección de mutaciones recurrentes en personas de origen caucásico y ascendencia europea. La prueba analiza el ADN de los futuros padres y determina si la persona es portadora de alguna de las 170 mutaciones más comunes en la...

Este viernes se celebra la Noche de los Investigadores en toda Europa. Un evento que se realizará simultáneamente en más de 300 ciudades de 33 países con el objetivo de promover la investigación como carrera profesional. Los asistentes podrán participar en experimentos, en espectáculos científicos...