Once you progress beyond the basics, training your whole body using only your bodyweight can be a bit of a challenge. You can hit many of your major muscle groups and ramp up your heart rate easily—think legs, core, chest,…
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Intense light may hold answer to dilemma over heart treatment
Looking to safely block a gene linked to factors known to cause heart disease, scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus may have found a new tool—light. The study, published Monday in the journal Trends in Molecular Medicine,…
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What Really Happens To Your Body When You Hold In A Yawn
There are times in life, either at work or during a conversation, when letting out a huge yawn can be deemed inappropriate. Because of this, it’s pretty common that people will hold in their yawns to not offend others or appear…
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US new daily COVID cases at five-month low as nations try to hold off surge
The United States recorded fewer than 40,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 for the first time in five months on Thursday, a piece of promising news as countries across the globe struggle to hold off another infection surge before inoculations…
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Why AstraZeneca and J&J’s Vaccines, In Use the World Over, Are Still on Hold in America
The World Health Organization greenlighted emergency use of AstraZeneca and Oxford’s covid-19 vaccine this month, following in the steps of the United Kingdom, the European Union and others, who are already injecting it as quickly as possible into the masses….
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New shape-changing 4D materials hold promise for morphodynamic tissue engineering
New hydrogel-based materials that can change shape in response to psychological stimuli, such as water, could be the next generation of materials used to bioengineer tissues and organs, according to a team of researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago….
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New drug molecules hold promise for treating fatal child disease
Scientists have identified a way to “rescue” muscle cells that have genetically mutated, paving the way to a possible new treatment for rare childhood illness such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). The study, led by the Universities of Exeter and…
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Q&A: Rapid COVID tests could hold the key to reopening
USC researchers are collaborating with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on a multiphase project to examine the use of coronavirus rapid antigen tests among first responders and school-aged children. Neeraj Sood,…
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Are your children sleeping enough? New blood test might hold the answer
A simple blood test could provide a reliable metric to tell if children are sleeping enough—which is also a marker for general health as sleep affects susceptibility to many diseases—according to new research published in Experimental Physiology this week. It…
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