Medical Wellness

New 'magnetic yeast' marks step toward harnessing Nature's magnetic capabilities

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School have developed a method for inducing…

Protocol reduces sternal wound infections in children by 61 percent

Faculty from UT Medicine San Antonio carried out a new infection-control protocol for 308 children who underwent sternotomies at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's…

Research offers insight to how fructose causes obesity and other illness

In this study which was performed in lab animals, researchers found that fructose can be metabolized by an enzyme that exists in two forms. One form appears to…

Mass. General researchers isolate egg-producing stem cells from adult human ovaries

For the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have isolated egg-producing stem cells from the ovaries of reproductive age women and…

Statins linked with lower depression risk in heart patients

The study was published electronically in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (February 21, 2012).Whooley and her research team evaluated 965 heart disease…

Some bacteria attack using spring-loaded poison daggers

Some, for example, have syringe-like exterior structures that can pierce other cells and inject proteins. Another system, called a type VI secretion system, is…

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