Microbial communities in the intestine—also known as the gut microbiome—are vital for human digestion, metabolism and resistance to colonization by pathogens. The gut microbiome composition in infants and toddlers changes ...
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A team of engineers has identified the 'violent' physical processes at work inside the lungs which cause wheezing, a condition which affects up to a quarter of the world's population.
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A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has found that people tend to consume smaller amounts of food when they are with someone else than when alone, but eat more often. In their paper published in the journal Royal ...
A team of researchers at Indiana University has tested the effects of propofol and ketamine on the brains of macaques as a means to better understand what happens when humans ingest the drugs. In their paper published in ...
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. and one in the U.S. has suggested a novel way to control the spread of COVID-19—lift all restrictions in a test city and replace them with weekly testing ...
A team of researchers from the University of Guelph and the University of Toronto reports evidence that as the planet heats up, humans may become more susceptible to food poisoning. In their paper published in Royal Society ...
As SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to mutate, it is important to check the efficacy of current diagnostic tests, say York University researchers, who found seven out of 27 methods had potential sequence mismatch issues that ...
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A team of researchers at Radboud University's, Behavioral Science Institute in The Netherlands, has found that workers using their smartphone to take short breaks do not find reductions in boredom or fatigue. In their paper ...
A team of researchers from Cardiff University, Radboud University and the University of Exeter has carried out a survey of "boosting intervention" trials to find out how well such approaches work in helping people lose weight. ...
We are all familiar with the sounds of a cat or dog vying for human attention, and for pet-owners, these sounds are particularly evocative. Dog sounds are especially sad to both cat and dog owners, who actually rate a whimpering ...
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