A new study focuses on language acquisition for young people in Khayelitsha near Cape Town.
Speech impairment in five-year-old international adoptees with cleft palate
In a group of internationally adopted children with cleft lip and/or palate, speech at age five is impaired compared to…
How do we get so many different types of neurons in our brain?
Researchers have discovered another layer of complexity in gene expression, which could help explain how we’re able to have so…
Medical News Today: World first: Doctors use ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells to repair cornea
In a groundbreaking procedure, surgeons have successfully repaired a human cornea using ‘reprogrammed’ cells from the patient’s skin.
Study shows how serotonin and a popular anti-depressant affect the gut’s microbiota
A new study in mice strongly suggests that serotonin and drugs that target serotonin, such as anti-depressants, can have a…
Measuring changes in magnetic order to find ways to transcend conventional electronics
Researchers have developed an approach for precisely measuring changes in the magnetic order of antiferromagnetic materials in real time. Further…
How our brain filters sounds
When two identical sounds are repeated quickly, a filter reduces the attention that the brain directs to the second sound…
‘Tiny fat bubbles’ can boost immunity, calm disease
People living with inflammatory autoimmune disease could benefit from an ‘immune system reboot’, and researchers have isolated specific cells to…
Bad to the bone or just bad behavior?
A new study suggests that the way we perceive others’ bad behavior — as either biological and innate or potentially…
Researchers find alarming risk for people coming off chronic opioid prescriptions
A recent study found an alarming outcome: Patients coming off opioids for pain were three times more likely to die…