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The image shows a healthy Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterial cell, upper left, next to a bacterial cell destroyed and lysed by the human milk protein complex HAMLET, lower right (Laura R. Marks)

Breast Milk Protein HAMLET Reverses Antibiotic Resistance in MRSA, Pneumococcus

May 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, a human breast milk protein complex called HAMLET can help reverse the antibiotic...

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that primarily affects the joints and surrounding tissue (Tulane University)

Fat in Knees May Trigger Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scientists Find

May 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the United States and Japan led by Prof Nirmal Banda from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found that fat cells...

Newly identified type of brown adipocyte (University of Gothenburg)

Brown Fat Cell Discovery May Lead to Treatment of Obesity

May 9, 2013 by Sci-News.com

A new study by scientists at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, shows that humans have two different types of brown fat cells, not one as previously thought. Newly...

Structured illumination imaging of rat neuronal cells (Freeman D et al)

Parkinson’s Disease Protein Acts Like Virus, Study Shows

May 9, 2013 by Sci-News.com

According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...

Eritoran treatment also improves lung pathology of H3N2 infection of cotton rats. Scale bars - 500 µm (Kari Ann Shirey et al)

Eritoran: New Drug for Influenza Shows Promise in Mice Study

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of researchers led by Prof Stefanie Vogel from the University of Maryland has found that an experimental drug called Eritoran can...

U.S.-Israeli team found that schizophrenia patients have elevated levels of a specific microRNA in the olfactory neuroepithelium (Patrick J. Lynch / CC BY 2.5)

Neurons in Nose Could be Key to Early, Fast Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Apr 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from Israel and the United States led by Dr Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method for physical diagnosis...

This false-color micrograph shows Clostridium bolteae (Brittany Pequegnat et al)

First Vaccine Against Autism-Associated Bacterium Clostridium bolteae

Apr 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of scientists from the United States and Canada has created a first-ever carbohydrate-based vaccine against Clostridium bolteae, gut bacterium common...

Homemade potato chips (Petr Brož / CC BY 3.0)

Study Explains Why We Can’t Stop after Eating One Potato Chip

Apr 23, 2013 by Sci-News.com

A study conducted by researchers at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, sheds new light on the causes of hedonic hyperphagia, a condition that plagues hundreds...