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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
GPS technology reveals that football practices can be up to 40% more demanding than games
Until recently, there has been little data available on how much effort football players exert in games versus practices, which position groups run the most or how to balance loads in practice to best meet the needs of game ...
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Medical research
IgNobel 'Butt Breathing' idea from 2024 moves closer to real treatment
The technique sounds so outlandish that it won an IgNobel prize in 2024. But the science behind rescuing people with blocked airways and clogged lungs by rectally delivering oxygen to the body is no joke.
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Serotonin produced by gut bacteria provides hope for a novel IBS treatment
Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, clarifies the complex interaction between gut bacteria and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Experiments demonstrate that gut bacteria can produce the important substance ...
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Graying hair may reflect a natural defense against cancer risk
Throughout life, our cells are constantly exposed to environmental and internal factors that can damage DNA. While such DNA damage is known to contribute to both aging and cancer, the precise connection—particularly how ...
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Grid cells create multiple local maps rather than single global system for spatial navigation, study finds
Grid cells are a class of specialized neurons in a brain region called the entorhinal cortex, which is known to support spatial navigation and some memory processes. Past neuroscience studies have found that as humans and ...
Spiritual experiences in adolescence linked to adult loneliness and civic engagement
University of North Carolina at Charlotte's School of Nursing, collaborating with Harvard's Human Flourishing Program, reports that adolescents who report transformative religious or spiritual experiences show both greater ...
Towards prostheses controlled by the power of thought: Virtual tasks reveal how the brain recalibrates movements
Researchers at the German Primate Center (DPZ)—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have discovered that the brain reorganizes itself extensively across several brain regions when it learns to perform movements ...
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Children drive household mpox infections, study reveals
A study by CUNY SPH doctoral student Raoul Kamadjeu provides important new data on how mpox, especially the Clade Ib strain, transmits within households. The paper is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
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New study maps how we simultaneously process different words
Trains move through the world's subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and repeated by other trains throughout the day. A new study by a team of New York University psychology ...
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Biological mechanism the boosts myelin production in the brain could aid treatments for neurological disorders
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have discovered a new biological mechanism that enhances the production of myelin—a substance essential for proper brain function and nerve communication.
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Teclistamab T-cell therapy shows promise in patients with drug-resistant autoimmune disease
Research led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg provides evidence that teclistamab may offer therapeutic benefit for patients with severe forms of treatment-resistant autoimmune diseases.
Personalized brain stimulation offers new hope for people with hard-to-treat epilepsy
Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, published in Nature ...
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Ultra-endurance athletes test the metabolic limits of the human body
When ultra-runners lace up for races that stretch hundreds of miles and days, they're not merely testing their mental grit and muscle strength—they're probing the limits of human biology. Reporting in Current Biology, researchers ...
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Precision reprogramming: How AI tricks cancer's toughest cells
Scientists at University of California San Diego have developed a new approach to destroying cancer stem cells—hard-to-find cells that help cancers spread, come back after treatment and resist therapy. The new approach, ...
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Study sheds light on the role of genetics in the body weight
The obesity rate has been steadily climbing and so have scientific efforts to understand why. A new study, published in Nature Communications, takes a closer look at the genes behind body weight and how they might point toward ...
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Like radar, a brain wave sweeps a cortical region to read out information held in working memory
Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security monitors arrayed on your ...
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Immune-altering drug suppresses tumor-protecting cells and enhances stomach cancer treatment
Working with an international team of collaborators, scientists at Columbia University have found a way to shift the balance of a type of white blood cell inside a stomach tumor, causing the immune system to recognize and ...
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Oral drug demonstrates promising anti-tumor activity in patients with advanced lung cancer
The oral targeted therapy sevabertinib led to tumor reduction and manageable side effects in patients with HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to data from a trial led by researchers at The University ...
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Retinal implant restores central vision in patients with advanced AMD, study shows
A wireless retinal implant can restore central vision in patients with advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to clinical trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Brain scans may predict future weight gain in people with mental disorders
With a simple standard MRI scan of the brain, it may soon be possible to predict which people with mental illnesses will gain weight after their initial diagnosis—thereby increasing their risk of physical diseases—and ...
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