- A natural compound found in many plants inhibits the growth of drug-resistant Candida fungi — including its most virulent species, Candida auris, an emerging global health threat. Lab experiments showed that the natural compound PGG blocks 90% of the growth in 4 different species of Candida fungi. https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/09/er_fungi_study_12-09-2023/story.html 5 comments science
- A drug that increases dopamine can reverse the effects of inflammation on the brain in depression https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/01/som_bhc_inflammation_felger/story.html 1155 comments science
- Researchers used fMRI and machine learning to give a glimpse of how a dog's brain represents what it sees. https://news.emory.edu/features/2022/09/er_decoding_canine_cognition_14-09-2022/ 12 comments science
- Left-wing authoritarians share key psychological traits with far right, Emory study finds | Emory University | Atlanta GA https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/09/esc_left_wing_authoritarians_psychology/campus.html 908 comments science
- Scientists identify obesity-promoting metabolite from intestinal bacteria. People who are obese tend to have higher levels of delta-valerobetaine in their blood. It decreases the liver’s ability to burn fat during fasting periods. Over time, the enhanced fat accumulation may contribute to obesity. https://news.emory.edu/stories/2022/01/hs_bacterial_metabolite_obesity/story.html 20 comments science
- Nearly half of fecal samples from wild chimpanzees contain bacteria that is resistant to a major class of antibiotics people commonly use in the vicinity of Gombe National Park in Tanzania, according to new research. https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/04/esc_antibiotic_threatens_endangered_chimpanzees/campus.html 32 comments science
- One in eight residents of the United States — more than 39 million people — had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of October 2020. Black and Hispanic/Latino Americans were two and three times more likely, respectively, to experience an infection than white Americans https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/03/covidvu_at_croi/index.html 26 comments science
- Immune cell activation in severe COVID-19 resembles lupus. This may explain why some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 produce abundant antibodies against the virus, yet experience poor outcomes. https://news.emory.edu/stories/2020/10/severe_covid_resembles_lupus/index.html 314 comments science
- Scientists developed a new method using a dirhodium catalyst to make an inert carbon-hydrogen bond reactive, turning cheap and abundant hydrocarbon with limited usefulness into a valuable scaffold for developing new compounds — such as pharmaceuticals and other fine chemicals. https://news.emory.edu/features/2018/12/chemistry-catalyst/index.html 265 comments science
- For decades, chemists aspired to do controlled chemistry on carbon-hydrogen bonds, which are extremely strong. A new method to make an inert C-H bond reactive has just been published in Nature, which may change a cheap and abundant hydrocarbon into a valuable scaffold for developing new compounds. https://news.emory.edu/features/2018/12/chemistry-catalyst/index.html 4 comments science
- Direct electrical stimulation of the human amygdala, a region of the brain known to regulate memory and emotional behaviors, can enhance next-day recognition of images when applied immediately after the images are viewed, neuroscientists have found. http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/12/amygdala_stimulation_memory/index.html 5 comments science
- Debating the ethics of head transplants http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/12/er_neuroethics_journal/campus.html 9 comments science
- Fire ant venom offers new option for psoriasis - Compounds derived from fire ant venom can reduce skin thickening and inflammation in a mouse model of psoriasis http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/09/arbiser_venom_psoriasis/index.html 637 comments science
- Brain scan may predict best depression treatment. Specific patterns of activity on brain scans may help clinicians identify whether psychotherapy or antidepressant medication is more likely to help a patient recover from depression. http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/03/mayberg_dunlop_predict_study/index.html 19 comments science
- New eye-tracking measures show that young children with autism do not avoid eye contact on purpose. Instead, they miss the significance of social information that is in others’ eyes. http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/11/toddlers_eye_contact/index.html 121 comments science
- Neuroscientists have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia, are more sensitive to associations everyone has between the sounds of words and visual shapes. http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/09/synesthesia_sathian/index.html 7 comments science
- Study finds that unvaccinated or undervaccinated U.S. individuals comprised a substantial proportion of cases in measles and some pertussis outbreaks. It also found a generally increased risk among people who refused vaccines, as well as an associated risk among fully vaccinated individuals http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/03/us_measles_cases/campus.html 10 comments science
- Study: African-Americans more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than Caucasians http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/12/alzheimers_african_americans/campus.html 5 comments science
- How white blood cells limit muscle regeneration http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/08/finn_muscleregen_natcomm/campus.html 4 comments science
- Testing parents' patience, while treating kids' problem behavior: Researchers study “delay discounting” - the tendency for perceived value of a delayed benefit to diminish - as it applies to parents’ decision-making, when it comes to engaging in treatment for their children’s problem behavior http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/10/marcus_delayed_discounting/ 7 comments science
- Testes size correlates with men's involvement in toddler care http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/09/esc_mens_involvement_in_child_care_study/campus.html 5 comments science
- PTSD research: distinct gene activity patterns from childhood abuse http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/04/childhood_abuse_ptsd_epigenetics/index.html 5 comments science
- "Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not". Emory philosopher Robert McCauley suggests that science is more fragile than we think while religion more resilient – all for reasons coming back to humans' cognitive processes. http://news.emory.edu/stories/2012/02/er_book_report_robert_mccauley/campus.html 4 comments cogsci