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Six-week postpartum monitoring uncovers 40% more severe pregnancy complications

Extending the monitoring period for severe pregnancy complications showed that more than 40% of cases were missed using traditional delivery-focused monitoring, according to new research that extended monitoring from conception ...

Brain scans reveal link between thinner brain cortex regions and higher psychopathic traits

A team of researchers from Spain was curious to know if people with high psychopathic traits have anomalies in the brain's physical structures, which make them incapable of feeling regret or capable of manipulation and other ...

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Q&A: Gassing up bioengineered materials for wound healing

Biomaterials are specifically engineered to support tissue, nerve and muscle regeneration across the body, yet physicians and researchers have limited control over the size and connectivity of the internal pores that transfer ...

How vitamin B2 could pave the way to new cancer therapies

The human body cannot produce vitamin B2—also known as riboflavin—itself; it must absorb the important substance through diet. The vitamin can be found in dairy products, eggs, meat and green vegetables. The metabolism ...

Newly found immune cells link strep throat to psoriasis

A common strep throat infection can trigger guttate psoriasis by altering the behavior of key immune cells, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in eBioMedicine. The findings suggest how an infection ...

How the brain balances continuity and segmentation

Life doesn't arrive in neat chapters. It flows, one conversation bleeding into the next, one thought quietly reshaping the one that follows. Yet our brains do something remarkable: they preserve a sense of continuity while ...

Engineered CAR-NK cells appear more 'attack-ready'

Researchers at the Ribeirao Preto Blood Center and the Center for Cell-Based Therapy (CTC) conducted a study using the NK-92 cell line to test new models of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) with specific costimulatory domains, ...

Gene variants help explain why food allergies run in families

People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy genetic research has relied upon broad but surface-level methods called genome-wide association studies.