In the United States, turning 45 brings with it a rather unpleasant rite of passage: the beginning of regular colonoscopies, in which an endoscope equipped with a light and a camera is used to visually check the colon for ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Results from a new study by Harvard researchers just published in Cell offer insights into the relationship between inflammation and the cognitive impairment we experience as we age, and suggest the possibility that it may ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Cells jostling for a spot in a germinal center face a cutthroat admissions process. Formed after exposure to a pathogen or vaccine, germinal centers act as a kind of immune system training academy, helping B cells refine ...
Jan 17, 2023
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An international study 13 years in the making demonstrates for the first time that degradation in the way DNA is organized and regulated—known as epigenetics—can drive aging in an organism, independently of changes to ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Somebody just coughed on you. On a plane. At a dinner party. In a supermarket line.
Jan 10, 2023
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Have you ever been cut off while driving and found yourself swearing and laying on the horn? Or come home from a long day at work and lashed out at whoever left the dishes unwashed? From petty anger to the devastating violence ...
Jan 6, 2023
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Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered how, when young and old cells co-operate and exchange resources, this increases the lifespan of all the cells.
Jan 6, 2023
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If B cells are the munitions factories of the immune system, manufacturing antibodies to neutralize harmful pathogens, then the tiny biological structures known as germinal centers are its weapons-development facilities. ...
Dec 23, 2022
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A multiregional brain circuit allows larval zebrafish to track where they are, where they've been, and how to get back to their original location after being displaced, researchers report December 22 in the journal Cell. ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Researchers have discovered a new mode of vertical mother-to-infant microbiome transmission, where microbes in the maternal gut shared genes with microbes in the infant gut during the perinatal period starting immediately ...
Dec 22, 2022
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