Recess quality, not just the amount of time spent away from the classroom, plays a major role in whether children experience the full physical, mental and social-emotional benefits of recess, a new study from Oregon State University found. “Not all recess is created equal,” said William Massey, study author and an assistant professor in OSU’s […]
For the first time, scientists have examined how the three-dimensional (3D) structure of a patient’s genome can contribute to bladder cancer and pediatric brain tumors, according to a pair of Northwestern Medicine studies published in Science Advances and Genome Biology. Within each cell, two-meter-long DNA needs to be properly folded and organized so that it […]
Studies of the microbiome in the human gut focus mainly on bacteria. Other microbes that are also present in the gut—viruses, protists, archaea and fungi—have been largely overlooked. New research in mice now points to a significant role for fungi in the intestine—the communities of molds and yeasts known as the mycobiome—that are the active […]
The brain’s neural activity is irregular, changing from one moment to the next. To date, this apparent “noise” has been thought to be due to random natural variations or measurement error. However, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have shown that this neural variability may provide a unique window into brain function. […]
