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Endocrinology & Metabolism

Live fast, die young? Or live cold, die old?

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from Wenzhou University and the University of Aberdeen, have found that body temperature exerts ...

Medical research

Rapid eye movement sleep helps protect against predator attack

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep brings about brief but periodic awakenings. In 1966, Dr. Frederick Snyder reported the "sentinel" function of REM could help animals prepare a fight or flight response against potential predator ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers develop new generation tumor-specific pro-IL-12

Interleukin-12 (IL-12), a potent inducer of cell-mediated immunity, can stimulate the anti-tumor effector functions of the activated T and NK cells for solid tumors rejection. However, clinical administration of IL-12 has ...

Pediatrics

Children's visual perception continues to develop up to age 10

It is generally believed that children's visual perception basically reaches adults' level at the age of 6–7. But a new study shows that the development of children's visual perception does not stop before the age of 10.

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