Humans and other mammals can sometimes experience itch, an uncomfortable sensation that prompts them to scratch specific parts of their bodies. Past studies on humans and other primates have found that itch can sometimes ...
A team of public health researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has found microplastics in the semen of every sample they tested. In their study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, ...
A team of medical researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Ophthalmic Bioinformatics has found further evidence that regular consumption of melatonin reduces ...
In a clinical trial conducted by Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues, a 15-day course of Paxlovid—an antiviral drug combination targeting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19—proved safe as an extended-duration ...
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A new study has found that patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder are three times more likely to have Bartonella DNA in their blood than adults without these disorders. The work further supports ...
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Scientists at the University of Dundee have uncovered the inner relay of a molecular switch that protects the brain against the development of Parkinson's disease.
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Northwestern University researchers have developed a new antioxidant biomaterial that someday could provide much-needed relief to people living with chronic pancreatitis.
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In pausing to think before making an important decision, we may imagine the potential outcomes of different choices we could make. While this "mental simulation" is central to how we plan and make decisions in everyday life, ...
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Researchers at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine have developed an exosome-based platform, "safeEXO-Cas," that significantly enhances the delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing components to specific cells and ...
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A new study from deCODE genetics uses pedigrees and sequence data from 64,806 Icelanders to shed light on the rate and nature of mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the peculiar dynamics of its maternal transmission.
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