Tag: Animal

Even before the pandemic and the presidential election, Americans reported some of the highest perceived levels of stress in the world, according to the American Psychological Association. Not only does stress have negative effects on work and personal relationships, it also increases the risk of many chronic conditions, such as heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease,

The Sars Virus caused one of the most dangerous waves of Infection of the recent times. Now there is again a cluster of mysterious disease cases in China. Is, again, caught a Virus from animals to humans? After more and more cases of a mysterious lung disease in the Central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan has

The Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI, President Pann Ghill Suh) announced on November 12 that a Korean research team made up of Dr. Hyung-Jun Kim and Shinrye Lee of KBRI, and professor Kiyoung Kim of Soonchunhyang University, found a new molecular mechanism of suppressing neuronal toxicity associated dementia and Lou Gehrig’s disease. These findings were

People do not expect to die from a simple infection. But that might change: the world is running out of effective antibiotics. For decades, diseases like bacterial gastroenteritis and colitis have not been a serious health threat, thanks to antibiotics. These small molecules are able to kill bacteria or stop them from reproducing and spreading

Advanced algorithms working from large chemical databases can predict a new chemical’s toxicity better than standard animal tests, suggests a study led by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers, in the study that appears in the journal Toxicological Sciences on July 11, mined a large database of known chemicals they

Children love to get toys from parents as presents. This craving for objects also underlies object hoarding disorders and shopping addiction. However, the biological causes of object pursuit have remained unknown. Part of the answer may lie with a neural circuit in the hypothalamus associated with “object craving,” according to neuroscientist Daesoo Kim from the