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Sugar—sweet, satisfying, and everywhere. From fresh fruit and honey to processed table sugar and drinks, it sneaks into nearly everything we eat. While delicious, sugar delivers what nutritionists call "empty calories"—energy ...
May 6, 2025
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About 100 cancer predisposition genes (CPGs) are known. The probability of developing cancer is greater in individuals who inherit certain altered variants of one of these genes.
Jan 16, 2024
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Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a rare newborn genetic disease that impacts between 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 20,000 people, depending on the individuals' genetic ancestry. PKU causes an amino acid—called phenylalanine (Phe)—to build ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Playing a Mozart lullaby may help reduce the pain experienced by newborn babies undergoing a heel prick blood test, according to a randomized, blinded clinical trial involving 100 infants published in Pediatric Research.
Aug 28, 2023
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The World Health Organization declared on July 14, 2023, that the widely used synthetic sweetener aspartame could be a "possible" carcinogen, or cancer-causing agent, on the basis of "limited evidence for cancer in humans."
Jul 24, 2023
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Minnesota is the first U.S. state to universally test newborns for cytomegalovirus, an easily transmissible virus and a leading cause of infant hearing loss and congenital birth defects.
Feb 9, 2023
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Babies undergo a newborn screening test for inherited metabolic disorders within seven days of birth. The test checks for risk factors such as hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria and maple syrup urine disease, which can lead ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Research published recently in Science China Life Sciences led by Prof. Sheng Yang from the Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a collaborating company, developed an engineered probiotic with ...
Sep 16, 2022
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