Science news articles about 'biological link'

... at the University of Chicago have used an animal model to find, for the first time, a biological link between tumors and negative mood changes. The team determined that substances associated with ...

... with type I diabetes have increased levels of relaxin in pregnancy. This indicates that there may be a biological link between diabetes and pelvic girdle syndrome, which has never been investigated ...

... posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. The study also found that low levels of cortisol, a hallmark biological feature of CFS, are associated with childhood trauma. Cortisol is frequently referred ...

... previously reported in 2005 in mice genetically altered to develop chronic heart failure, providing the first biological link between the two chronic diseases. Studies since have ...

... software approaches then allowed us two assemble the results into a more systems-level appreciation of the biology, linking together several functional characteristics of the androgen receptor," he ...

... her stature and her child's health. Some scientists believe that the size of a woman's uterus may be the biological link between her height and her child's health, with a smaller uterus leading to ...

... reactivity and the risk of developing immune dysfunctions. Their research, published in the open access journal BMC Biology, links the louse Polyplax serrata to a strong dampening of ...

... transforming growth factor beta-1, or TGF beta-1. Previously, scientists had searched for but missed the biological link between bone growth and bone remodeling – a natural give-and-take system that ...