Tomorrow’s London Marathon will see around 40,000 runners will take to the streets of the capital. The 26.2-mile race, which spans from Blackheath to Buckingham Palace, is back for spring after the coronavirus pandemic led to it being held in October over the last few years. Celebrities including Chris Evans, Adele Roberts and Harry Judd will be taking part, with […]

Need to get your shut-eye on time? What you eat could make a difference, according to a new study. Researchers found that college athletes who ate more carbohydrates and vitamins B12 and C tended to go to sleep and wake up earlier. It’s possible that these nutrients might increase synthesis of vital hormones that regulate sleep, including serotonin and melatonin, […]

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Bariatric surgery for obesity is associated with a reduced risk of developing breast cancer, new data suggest. In a matched cohort study of more than 69,000 Canadian women, risk for incident breast cancer at 1 year was 40% higher among women who had not undergone bariatric surgery compared with those who had. The risk remained elevated through 5 years of […]

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Getting vaccines to people who need them isn’t always easy. Many vaccines require cold storage, making it difficult to ship them to remote areas that don’t have the necessary infrastructure. MIT researchers have come up with a possible solution to this problem: a mobile vaccine printer that could be scaled up to produce hundreds of vaccine doses in a day. […]

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open, researchers performed a cohort study for prospective surveillance across a network of 155 acute care hospitals in Canada between March 15, 2020, and May 28, 2022, i.e., during the first two years of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Study: Trends in Severe Outcomes Among Adult and Pediatric Patients Hospitalized With […]

In a recent study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, researchers in the United States characterized cytidine/uridine monophosphate kinase-2 (CMPK-2) as a host restriction factor, specifically for flaviviruses, that exerts antiviral activity by inhibiting viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) translation. Study: CMPK2 restricts Zika virus replication by inhibiting viral translation. Image Credit: felipe caparros / Shutterstock Background Flaviviruses are arthropod-borne viral organisms that […]

Measuring stress activity directed to the blood vessels of muscles could allow researchers to measure pain objectively, according to a new study. Researchers from the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Research Lab and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain at McGill University in Canada will present their work this week at the American Physiology Summit, the flagship annual meeting of […]

It’s no secret—our food system is broken. Almost 10 billion animals are raised for food each year in the U.S., and most spend their lives on factory farms where they are so confined, they can’t carry out their natural behaviors. They are never able to graze on fresh grass or feel the sunlight on their backs. This same system has […]