Medical research
Mystery arthritis-linked knee bone three times more common than 100 years ago
The fabella, a small bone in the knee once lost to human evolution, has made a surprising resurgence over the last century.
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Oncology & Cancer
'Moving target' breast cancer cells revealed by new imaging technique
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have developed a new imaging technique to visualise key steps in the evolution of cancer cells within tumours, potentially revealing how breast cancers evade treatment.
Mar 28, 2019
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Neuroscience
Researchers optimize aptamer with enhanced myelin-binding properties for multiple sclerosis treatment
A new study has demonstrated the enhanced ability of an optimized 20-nucleotide derivative of a larger DNA aptamer to bind myelin in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. The study, which also provides the first evidence of ...
Mar 27, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
The immune system preys on growing lung cancers, forcing them to evolve to survive
Charles Darwin is a founding father of evolution, describing how from simple beginnings "endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful" arise.
Mar 21, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Bullying evolves with age and proves difficult to escape from
Bullying is a harmful antisocial behavior present in schools all over the world. Involvement in bullying, as either perpetrators or victims, have serious short-term and long-term consequences for all the members of the school ...
Mar 15, 2019
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Neuroscience
Uncovering the evolution of the brain
What makes us human, and where does this mysterious property of "humanness" come from? Humans are genetically similar to chimpanzees and bonobos, yet there exist obvious behavioral and cognitive differences. Now, researchers ...
Feb 13, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Innovative, simple treatment to combat the Candida Albicans fungus
A study led by the UPV/EHU has developed an innovative, simple treatment based on uterine stem cells to combat the Candida albicans fungus, responsible for vaginal candidiasis. Despite not being life-threatening, this disease, ...
Feb 6, 2019
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Neuroscience
A gene found only in humans and active in the cerebral cortex can enlarge the ferret brain
The human brain owes its characteristic wrinkled appearance to its outer layer, the cerebral cortex. During human evolution, the neocortex, the evolutionarily youngest part of the cerebral cortex, expanded dramatically and ...
Jan 8, 2019
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Health
To feel happier, we have to resolve to the life we evolved to live
When we have to give a talk to a group of people, we feel anxious and experience the bodily fear responses that do not make sense now: The system is not meant to function in this safe context.
Jan 2, 2019
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Genetics
Researchers discover why some parts of the body have hair and others don't
Why do humans have hair on our arms and legs but not on the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet? It's a fundamental question in human evolution that researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...
Nov 28, 2018
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