News tagged with body processes

New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes

In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Autism study finds visual processing 'hinders ability' to read body language

The way people with autism see and process the body language of others could be preventing them from gauging people's feelings, according to new research.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Newly discovered molecule essential to resetting 'body clocks'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research has shown that light is the key to getting our 'body clocks' back in sync and now a new study exploring the resynchronisation mechanism in insects has discovered a molecule essential ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bioengineers develop artificial chip for testing how drugs interact with ion channels

(Phys.org) -- Ion channels, proteins embedded in cell membranes, are central to many of the human body's physiological processes, including cardiac activity. For this reason, they are also important targets for cardiac drugs. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast