Medicine News Stories

News articles about medicine, physiology, pathology, microbiology, drugs, food, neuroscience and psychology...

10 July 2015

一个new method for measuring biological age - the decline in organ function - has been used for the first time in young...

10 July 2015

一个chieving pain-killing benefits from medical marijuana use without negative mood- and memory-altering side effects may...

06 July 2015

The biological pathway that determines how mice feel pain is completely different in males and females, and could...

04 July 2015

Women change colour across the month and become subtly redder when they are at their most fertile, a new study has...

04 July 2015

Doses of antibiotics administered in babyhood trigger lifelong metabolic effects, including heightened risk of obesity...

02 July 2015

The way by which we form new memories of real-life events has been uncovered for the first time...

26 June 2015

The missing link in the pathway that endows poppies with the ability to make morphine has been found by scientists in...

26 June 2015

The cause of tinnitus - the distracting whoosing and grinding sounds experienced by up to 1 in 4 people - has been...

19 June 2015

Some Australian marsupials, including kangaroos and wallabies, show signs of left handedness, a new study has shown...

19 June 2015

Replaying positive emotional memories in the minds of mice reverses depression symptoms, scientists have discovered...

12 June 2015

Scientists in the US have developed a new brain implant that can be used to record information from nerve cells.

12 June 2015

Commonly-used stomach ulcer drugs could increase your heart attack risk by up to 25%, a new study has shown.

11 June 2015

Creating a virtual reality in which stroke patients have full use of their limbs has been shown to greatly improve...

11 June 2015

We’ve infiltrated the ranks of our immune system’s intelligence army to control how we fight disease…

09 June 2015

Ladybird colour reveals to predators how toxic they are…

05 June 2015

Chimpanzees possess all of the required cognitive abilities for cooking, announces a new study from Harvard University.

05 June 2015

一个sequencing machine installed in a Sierra Leone tent is distributing virus data freely to the world and revealing how...

05 June 2015

How the unfertilised egg wipes the DNA slate clean and reboots the genome to kick-start cell division following...

05 June 2015

每一个病毒感染你曾经感染now be detected by a new test developed by US scientists.

03 June 2015

Cats are actually picky about bitter, not sour, tastes

29 May 2015

一个gene that coordinates the body's pain pathways has been discovered with the help of a group of patients who...

27 May 2015

Researchers have uncovered an efficient way to create new hair cells used for hearing...

21 May 2015

一个paralysed man can shake hands again thanks to a new thought-controlled robotic arm…

21 May 2015

Why using paracetamol during pregnancy might affect the development of male babies