If having children is on your agenda and you want to help them avoid being overweight, lose your own fat before you get pregnant. That’s the message from researchers who have found obesity during pregnancy can cause lifelong obesity in the next generations.

Cancer surgery is tricky because you don’t want to miss any cancer, but you also don’t want to cut healthy tissue. Now doctors are testing a new technique that uses a safe chemical highlighter, allowing surgeons to cut by color.

It’s already known that weight-loss surgery for morbid obesity can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart problems. Now, new research shows that it may also cut a person’s risk of cancer by 80-percent.

October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, in recognition of families who lost babies to miscarriage or stillbirth. But this year the somber nationwide gatherings marking the occasion are also filled with hope– for new legislation that could go a long way toward preventing these tragedies. This ScienCentral News video explains.

Researchers studying the brains of toddlers say the strength of their brain waves can indicate language ability. The research might lead to early identification of language impairment.

When it comes to making fat, not all sugars are created equal. Researchers have shown that fructose creates fat in your body more rapidly than other sugars.

For the first time, researchers have prevented the typical age-related decline in a whole organ, allowing old mice to have livers that function as if they were young.

Doctors are considering using a new technology to genetically modify AIDS patients’ own cells to be resistant to HIV.

Research announced today confirms that skin with cancer gives off a different odor than normal skin. This ScienCentral News video reports on the first odor profile for skin cancer and how it could lead to new cancer sniffing technology.

In this ScienCentral web exclusive Chef Suvir Saran, of New York City’s Devi restaurant, demonstrates how to use turmeric in a delicious recipe and defines what curry really is.