Dietary fiber increases survival in influenza-infected mice by setting the immune system at a healthy level of responsiveness, according to a preclinical study published May 15 in the journal Immunity. A high-fiber diet blunts harmful, excessive immune responses in the lungs while boosting antiviral immunity by activating T cells. These dual benefits were mediated by […]

Sleep is known to be important for creative thinking, but exactly how it helps and what role each sleep stage — REM and non-REM — plays remains unclear. A team of researchers have now developed a theory to explain how the interleaving of REM and non-REM sleep might facilitate creative problem solving in different but […]

Researchers have found that children who participate in gun safety programs do not retain the skills they learned and that most still will approach a firearm in an unsupervised setting. While confirming that such programs are still essential, they stress that parents are the front line of defense when it comes to safeguarding their children […]