Oncology & Cancer

Swapping meat for 'mycoprotein' may protect against bowel cancer

Researchers from Northumbria University have found that swapping red and processed meat for Quorn's "mycoprotein," a fungi-based meat alternative, leads to a significant reduction in intestinal genotoxins—which can cause ...

Overweight & Obesity

Bulking and cutting: Is it safe for your metabolism?

If you've ever spent any time online trying to figure out the best way to build muscle or get in shape, you've probably come across a celebrity, athlete or fitness influencer somewhere advocating for the "bulking and cutting" ...

Neuroscience

Modeling the growth process of neurons

Modeling the growth cycle of a neuron is tricky, as neurons are formed for vastly different functions all over the body. However, every neuron begins its life in about the same way and goes through five distinct stages of ...

Medical research

How airway cells work together in regeneration and aging

Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have identified the process by which stem cells in the airways of the lungs switch between two distinct phases—creating ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study maps genetics of early progression in tuberculosis

While the vast majority of the 1.8 billion people infected with the TB bacterium never experience active disease, an estimated 5 to 15 percent do develop full-blown infections—roughly half of them within 18 months of exposure.