Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology reveals the negative behavioral and psychological consequences of commercial fitness apps reported by users on social media. These impacts may undermine the potential of apps to promote health and well-being. When investigators used artificial intelligence (AI) using a method called machine-assisted…
Epigenetic signatures in sperm. Sperm chromatin is tightly packaged by binding to protamines and histones (< 15% of the genome). DNA methylation occurs at CG-rich, histone-bound DNA regions and repetitive sequences. Environmental factors may influence DNA methylation, histone modification, as well as the expression of small non-coding RNA, such as tsRNA, microRNA, and PIWI-interacting RNA. The…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Are sports apps only about competition and breaking personal records? Research conducted by scientists from SWPS University shows that cycling enthusiasts in Eastern Europe are increasingly treating digital tools as a path to well-being and comfort, not necessarily as a virtual racetrack. Cycling enthusiasts eagerly embrace digital tools that not only…
Sleep is not one-size-fits-all: individual sleep styles are connected to distinct health, lifestyle, and psychological factors. Credit: Vitaly Gariev, Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Researchers led by Aurore Perrault at Concordia University, Canada and Valeria Kebets at McGill University, Canada, have used a complex data-driven analysis to uncover relationships among multiple aspects of sleep and individual variation…