Genetics
Why you drink black coffee: It's in your genes
People who like to drink their coffee black also prefer dark chocolate, a new Northwestern Medicine study found. The reason is in their genes.
Dec 16, 2021
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Neuroscience
Hypertension may increase risk of developing epilepsy
Hypertension may double an adult's risk of developing epilepsy, according to a new study published in Epilepsia.
Nov 17, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Male and female fetuses respond differently to COVID-19
In pregnant women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, male placentas showed increased immune activation compared with female placentas, according to a new study published in Science Translational ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Overweight & Obesity
Researchers call for a focus on fitness over weight loss for obesity-related health conditions
The prevalence of obesity around the world has tripled over the past 40 years, and, along with that rise, dieting and attempts to lose weight also have soared. But according to a review article publishing September 20 in ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study finds raw wastewater 'leading indicator' of future COVID-19 outbreaks
A global team of researchers has found that future COVID-19 outbreaks, variants, hospitalizations and ICU admissions can be reliably predicted by detecting and quantifying the amount of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in raw wastewater.
Sep 8, 2021
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Medical research
Frequent consumption of peanuts by cancer patients may increase risk of cancer spread
A study by University of Liverpool researchers has identified new factors accompanying previous findings that frequent consumption of peanuts by cancer patients could increase risk of cancer spread.
Aug 4, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Where are French people catching COVID?
The Institut Pasteur, in partnership with the French National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), Santé publique France and the Ipsos Social Research Institute, recently presented the results of the ComCor epidemiological study ...
Jul 15, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research may help identify more dangerous strains of the virus that causes COVID-19
Viral mutations during the COVID-19 pandemic could cause the SARS-CoV-2 virus to become more dangerous. A new study published in Genetic Epidemiology has examined the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 viruses that have infected ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Neuroscience
Research explores how exposure to air pollution increases risk for neurodegeneration
There is growing awareness that air pollutants are playing a critical role in the development of neurodegenerative diseases. A new book, Alzheimer's Disease and Air Pollution: The Development and Progression of a Fatal Disease ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Genetics
DNA methylation changes in neurons of bipolar disorder patients
A research collaboration based in Kumamoto University, Japan, has revealed the DNA methylation status of gene transcriptional regulatory regions in the frontal lobes of patients with bipolar disorder (BD). The regions with ...
Jun 9, 2021
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