Eating more plant-based meals is better for our health and better for the planet. But cultural preferences are significant barriers to reducing meat consumption—especially for men, who are underrepresented among vegans ...
Oct 5, 2023
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Melanocytes are a small subset of epidermal cells that play an outsize role in protecting your skin from the damaging effects of sun exposure. They do this by synthesizing melanins, which are pigments sent to other skin cells ...
Jul 14, 2023
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Nausea, neurologic pain and hair loss are some of the severe side effects of chemotherapy. But they are not a necessary hardship, says biochemist Liyan Zhang. Together with Leiden biologists and others, she achieved promising ...
Jun 29, 2023
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An international team of doctors and medical scientists has found two rare leptin variants in two children. Both variants led to hyperphagia and obesity. In their study, reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, the ...
An international team of biotechnologists and neuroscientists has found the mechanism responsible for reducing depression symptoms in patients given two kinds of hallucinogenic compounds. In their mouse study, reported in ...
Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson, along with collaborators at Harvard University, harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to identify causes of Alzheimer's disease and potential ...
May 16, 2023
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When a patient experiences the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the disease has been developing for a long time, and the patient may have already lost half of a specific type of nerve cells in the brain.
Apr 25, 2023
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Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly—in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers in a project at Chalmers University of Technology, ...
Apr 18, 2023
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Scientists have developed a step-by-step blueprint to create advanced human lung models in the lab, which they say will accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs and reduce reliance on animal testing.
Apr 12, 2023
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Critically ill COVID-19 patients often have antibodies in their blood that bind to the body's own structures, so-called autoantibodies. Scientists from the BIH at Charité and the Max Delbrück Center have now discovered ...
Apr 4, 2023
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