Junk food firms have more than 90 current sponsorship deals within top UK sports amid growing concerns over their impact on public health, finds an investigation published by The BMJ.
A new skin-like sensor developed by an international team led by researchers at Penn State could help doctors monitor vital signs more accurately, track healing after surgery and even help patients with bladder control issues.
Two new open-source tools are set to make fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy—or FLIM—faster, simpler and more accessible. Developed by Ph.D. student Sofia Kapsiani in Professor Gabi Kaminski Schierle's Molecular Neuroscience Group,…
A new study led by UCLA investigators shows that Verbal Reaction Time (VRT), the amount of time it takes a person to respond verbally, can be a marker of sleepiness in older adults. The study, which measured participants' voice data…
Although there is a lot of discussion around negative aspects of aging and sexual problems, a new nationally representative study of 1,500 U.S. women aged 40–65 reveals that despite reporting masturbating less often, most postmenopausal…
What can lemurs tell us about inflammation and aging, aka "inflammaging" in humans? That's the question Elaine Guevara, a biological anthropologist who studies the evolution of life history and aging in primates, set out to understand.