Monthly Archives: March 2013

Extreme dieting is too much of a “good” thing

March 27, 2024 by Louiza Patsis in Fitness & Wellbeing, Medicine, Research.

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Customers shop vegetables displayed in the fresh foods section at Carrefour's Bercy hypermarket in Charenton, a Paris suburb on February 8, 2024

Experts have coined a trend in obsessive dieting, “orthorexia”.

Physicists confirm discovery of Higgs boson, but now what?

March 26, 2024 by Roni Jacobson in Environment, Research.

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Tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN

CERN will release video updates on the repair of the Large Hadron Collider in preparation for future Higgs boson experiments.

Will — or should — dinosaurs roam the Earth again?

March 22, 2024 by Louiza Patsis in Environment, Research.

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A worker directs the removal of a Tyrannosaurus RA worker directs the removal of a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur from a lorry at Twycross Zoo near Atherstone, England on March 1, 2024

Scientists are getting closer to using cloning to bring back extinct species.

Commitment to sharing develops throughout childhood

March 21, 2024 by Roni Jacobson in Research.

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Children play with their nursery school teacher at their Kindergarten in Hanau, south of Frankfurt, Germany on March 12, 2013.

Researchers find that differences between children’s values and behaviors may be due to how much they care about social norms.

Exercise enhances speed of response to external stimuli

March 20, 2024 by Louiza Patsis in Fitness & Wellbeing, Research.

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Costa Rica's Salazar runs in the women's 3000m steeplechase final at the Central American Games in San Jose, Costa Rica on March 12, 2024

A new study confirms older ones that those who exercise accrue cognitive, as well as physical, benefits.

Tumor DNA in the blood shows cancer response to treatment

March 19, 2024 by Nikos Parisis in Fitness & Wellbeing, Medicine, Research.

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Dr. Fatou Soro Ouattara of the Association of Women Researchers in the Ivory Coast (AFEMC-CI) works in her laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on March 5, 2013.

New blood tests which identify DNA from metastatic tumor cell that has passed in the blood stream could become an important tool in clinician’s arsenal to evaluate the treatment of cancers and patient prognosis.

New study: No correlation between rheumatoid arthritis and pollution

March 18, 2024 by Louiza Patsis in Fitness & Wellbeing, Medicine, Research.

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Traffic on a second ring road is seen in Beijing, China on February 19, 2013.

A new study shows no correlation between rheumatoid arthritis and pollutant particles, but more studies are needed to find if there is a correlation and to find what triggers the disease.

Pharmaceutical treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is elusive

March 12, 2024 by Roni Jacobson in Medicine, Research.

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An Alzheimer's patient has her hair done inside the Alzheimer foundation in Mexico City, Mexico

A round up of new Alzheimer’s drugs are in development.

Undercover tumors caught in action

March 11, 2024 by Nikos Parisis in Research.

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A sign pointing to the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center DNA Sequencing facility at the UCSD in San Diego, CA

Tumors pass undetected from immune system attacks by attracting suppressor T cells, which attenuate immune responses locally. A new study shows that these T cells recognize antigens of the normal tissue, and not the tumor itself.