16-04-05 A daily dose of vitamin D3 improves heart function in people with chronic heart failure, a five-year University of Leeds research project has found. Dr Klaus Witte, from the School of Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals...

15-08-13 Among older men with low testosterone levels, testosterone administration for 3 years compared with placebo did not result in a significant difference in the rates of change in atherosclerosis (thickening and hardening of artery walls), nor was it a...

15-04-30 When consumers taste cheap wine and rate it highly because they believe it is expensive, is it because prejudice has blinded them to the actual taste, or has prejudice actually changed their brain function, causing them to experience the cheap wine...

15-03-25 An experiment devised in Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics has for the first time demonstrated Albert Einstein's original conception of spooky action at a distance using a single particle. In a paper published in the journal Nature C...

14-08-26 Anyone who has suffered an injury can probably remember the after-effects, including pain, swelling（肿胀） or redness. These are signs that the body is fighting back against the injury. When tissue in the body is damaged, biological programs are ac...

14-08-13 Testosterone（睾酮） , a steroid hormone, is well known to contribute to aggressive behavior in males, but the neural circuits through which testosterone exerts（发挥） these effects have not been clear. Prior studies found that the administration o...

14-06-20 A controlled study using functional MRI brain imaging reveals a possible biological link between early musical training and improved executive functioning in both children and adults, report researchers at Boston Children's Hospital. The study, appe...

14-01-22 Scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada have discovered that two genes linked to hereditary（遗传的） Parkinson's disease are involved in the early-stage quality control of mitochondria（线粒体） . The protective m...

13-11-21 Among the most impressive ecological findings of the past 25 years is the ability of invasive plants to radically change ecosystem function. Yet few if any studies have examined whether ecosystem impacts of invasions persist over time, and what that...

13-11-19 A late-breaking clinical trial, known as the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone（醛固酮） Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, to be presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, November 18, 201...