May 3, 2024
In one of the first studies of its kind, UC Santa Barbara researchers have found that the immune status of postpartum mothers shifts with how she feeds her baby. Certain inflammatory proteins -- substances that are secreted as part of an immune response -- peak at different times of day, correlating with whether the mothers breastfeed, pump or formula-feed their babies.
A new mother's immune status varies with her feeding strategy
May 3, 2024
The placenta's response to infections from malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria has been mapped in high resolution, possibly paving the way for new treatment options.
Source of pregnancy complications from infections revealed by placenta map
May 2, 2024
Consistent adherence to physical activity guidelines throughout middle-age is associated with a higher health-related quality of life in women, according to a new study.
Stay active -- or get active -- to boost quality of life while aging, study suggests to middle-aged women
May 1, 2024
Vigorous exercise burns fat more in males than in females, but the benefits of exercise are broad for everyone.
When working out, males are programmed to burn more fat, while females recycle it--at least in rats
May 1, 2024
Researchers changed the composition of the gut microbiota in male mice through common antibiotics, inducing a condition called dysbiosis, and found that: - Mouse pups sired by a dysbiotic father show significantly lower birth weight, and have increased risk of growth disorders and postnatal mortality.
May 1, 2024
NFLM was associated with anxiety/vigilance, fatigue/pain, brain fog, sexual symptoms, and volatile mood symptoms. Recognizing symptoms associated with NFLM may allow for more accurate expectations and improve perimenopause care.
"Not feeling like myself" in perimenopause - what does it mean? Observations from the Women Living Better survey
April 30, 2024
There's a large and growing body of evidence pointing to potentially negative impacts of social media on mental health, from its addictive nature to disruptions in sleep patterns to effects on body image. Now, a new study has found that young women who took a social media break for as little as one week had a significant boost in self-esteem and body image -- particularly those most vulnerable to thin-ideal internalization.
Social-media break has huge impact on young women's body image, study finds
April 24, 2024
There is no avoiding robots. With increasing autonomy, satellites span the skies, vacuums vroom underfoot and bots conduct surgery, deliver packages and explore the solar system. Robot expert Sooyeon Jeong, an assistant professor of computer science in Purdue University’s College of Science, works in artificial intelligence to ensure that those robots are more friendly helpers to humans and less inscrutable interlopers, more R2-D2 than HAL, more Baymax than Terminator. AI is a foundational component of the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence, a Purdue Computes initiative.
Purdue News: More than machines: Computer scientist prepares robots to improve human lives
April 24, 2024
In Gaurav Chopra’s lab, discovery starts with a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) agent manager that helps to plan, execute and analyze experiments. Researchers chat in natural language and make a query, perhaps asking to design a drug for a particular target or synthesize a specific molecule. The tool — an AI agent manager — identifies all the resources to fulfill the task and communicates with lower-level agents that represent an instrument in the lab; or domain- or task-specific knowledge; or analysis AI and constructs a workflow to address the query given the resources available in the lab.
Purdue News: Accelerating scientific and drug discovery in an AI-powered lab
April 22, 2024
Purdue University researchers are developing and validating a patent-pending treatment for incurable glioblastoma brain tumors. Glioblastomas are almost always lethal with a median survival time of 14 months. Traditional methods used against other cancers, like chemotherapy and immunotherapy, are often ineffective on glioblastoma.
Purdue News: Genetically engineering a treatment for incurable brain tumors
