A team of researchers led by Peter Mac's Professor Sherene Loi has uncovered how having children and breastfeeding reduces a woman's long-term risk of breast cancer.
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UC San Diego researchers have settled a decades-long debate surrounding the role of the first Crohn's disease gene to be associated with a heightened risk for developing the auto-immune condition.
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Even small amounts of bisphenol A can lead to long-term health effects. When researchers studied adult rats exposed in the fetal stage, they found that females had developed a more masculine and males a more feminine gene ...
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Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork. It was a name that stuck, and to this day is known as influenza.
Researchers from UNIGE and Marburg show that D-cysteine, the "mirror" form of cysteine, selectively targets certain cancer cells.
Oct 27, 2025
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A prospective population-based cohort study of suboptimally active adults (
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Copenhagen University Hospital–Herlev and Gentofte led a nationwide registry study that the authors claim shows a "pattern suggesting" a lower five-year risk of any first cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) with ...
National Taiwan University researchers, with collaborators in Taiwan and the US, report that adipocyte lipolysis activates epithelial hair follicle stem cells and drives hair regeneration via monounsaturated fatty acid signaling.
Peripheral afferent neurons—nerves that send signals from all areas of the body to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord)—are known to infiltrate and grow within malignant bone tumors called osteosarcomas, ...
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Scientists have developed a proof-of-concept vaccine that could offer broad protection against all known and emerging variants of highly pathogenic avian influenza (A5) viruses, including those that have yet to evolve. This ...
For the first time, a team of Inserm researchers from the Physics for Medicine Institute (Inserm/ESPCI Paris-PSL/CNRS) has succeeded in mapping the blood flow of an entire organ in animals (heart, kidney and liver) with great ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers.
Oct 28, 2025
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In the new study, researchers demonstrated that the human brain falls asleep abruptly, rather than gradually, with a "tipping point" marking the transition from wakefulness into sleep. They were then able to predict the momentary ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Frailty threatens older individuals because it increases their vulnerability to detrimental health outcomes, such as falling, longer hospitalization, or even shortened life expectancy. New research exploring the linkage between ...
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When humans and other animals are in a calm state, they tend to breathe slower, and their heartbeat also slows down. Contrarily, when they are exercising or under psychological stress, both their breath and heartbeat tend ...
Nearly everyone has experienced it: After a night of poor sleep, you don't feel as alert as you should. Your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying attention.
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A tiny neural network is sufficient to control the daily rhythm of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Researchers at the University of Würzburg have shown that only four specialized nerve cells are necessary to drive ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Brain growth and maturation doesn't progress in a linear, stepwise fashion. Instead, it's a dynamic, choreographed sequence that shifts in response to genetics and external stimuli like sight and sound. This is the first ...
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The human body relies on precise genetic instructions to function, and cancer begins when these instructions get scrambled. When cells accumulate genetic errors over time, they can break free of the normal controls on their ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Prof. Alon Monsonego had discovered that T helper lymphocytes, a subset of immune cells which regulate immunity, undergo functional changes with age. These changes can indicate the biological ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a major unmet medical challenge, often resulting in permanent paralysis and disability with no effective treatments. Now, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine ...
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How does the brain take out its trash? That is the job of the brain's lymphatic drainage system, and efforts to understand how it works have pushed the boundaries of brain-imaging technologies.
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As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever.
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Obesity is a global epidemic affecting millions of people every day and is associated with comorbidities ranging from heart disease and type 2 diabetes to osteoarthritis and social stigma. While lifestyle factors, like diet ...
Oct 30, 2025
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What happens in the brain when a person experiences the characteristic movement symptoms of Parkinson's disease? Researchers around the world are seeking answers through various approaches. One of these builds on a treatment ...
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Newly decoded brain circuits make memories more stable as part of learning, according to a study led by NYU Langone Health researchers.
Oct 30, 2025
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Just a few fibers are enough for the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other. This was shown by a new international study led by Professor Dr. Michael Miller (University of California, Santa Barbara) and ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Despite clear evidence linking alcohol use to increased cancer risks, public awareness of this connection remains low in the U.S., according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Researchers ...
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As sure as the brain is prone to distraction, it can also return its focus to the task at hand. A new study in animals by scientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory of MIT shows how that seems to happen: ...
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A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they're all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term survival is almost unheard of for patients ...
Oct 31, 2025
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A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease protein, TDP-43, drives overactive nerve cells in the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral ...
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Idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) is a rare, chronic neurological disorder that causes people to feel excessively sleepy during the day, even after getting a full night's rest. Other symptoms include severe difficulty waking up ...
The New York University School of Medicine and collaborators found that capillary-associated macrophages in skin decline with age, weakening microvascular repair and reducing perfusion in mice, with skin restoration possible ...
Imagine a surgeon in the middle of a complex operation, able to get instant biochemical feedback not from a lab down the hall, but from the very tool in their hand. This vision is now one step closer to reality thanks to ...
Oct 31, 2025
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The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a vast network of nerves built into the walls of the intestine. While it is well known for its role in regulating digestion and the movement of food through the intestine, researchers are ...
Oct 31, 2025
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Astringency is a dry, puckering, rough, or sandpapery sensation in the mouth caused by plant-derived polyphenols. Polyphenols, including flavanols, are well known for risk reduction in cardiovascular diseases.
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With every step on the trail, fallen leaves crinkle underfoot. The path follows a stream, rushing and burbling over smooth, gray stones, while a breeze rustles the branches overhead. Now compare that blissful mental image ...
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A wave of the highly contagious respiratory syncytial virus is beginning to wash over the United States—sending greater numbers of babies and toddlers to the hospital, recent data show.
Nov 1, 2025
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Parents have spoken about harrowing cases of their young children being abused by other children in daycare centers, as part of an ABC investigation into the New South Wales sector.
Nov 1, 2025
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday that it will relax certain rules for approving low-cost versions of some high-priced medications, in an effort to speed up access to cheaper alternatives.
Nov 1, 2025
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Physician Lauren Hughes was heading to see patients at a clinic about 20 miles from her Denver home in February when another driver T-boned her Subaru, totaling it. She was taken by ambulance to the closest hospital, Platte ...
Nov 1, 2025
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Radiofrequency renal denervation (RDN) yields a clinically meaningful and durable reduction in blood pressure (BP), including among those with moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published ...
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The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to heart rate and pulse.
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Scripps Research in La Jolla announce a new clinical trial that will assess the effectiveness of using drugs approved for diabetes treatment and weight loss to treat long COVID-19, the debilitating chronic condition diagnosed ...
Nov 2, 2025
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Modern lifestyles including stress, sedentary activity, caffeine, alcohol and poor-quality sleep remain widespread triggers for migraines and headaches, which affect more than a third of the world's population, according ...
Nov 2, 2025
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Big-gun pain relievers can come with unwelcome side effects. At the top of the list for many of these products are constipation and the distress of slowed bowels.
Nov 2, 2025
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Patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy often cycle through multiple medications as they seek relief from the seizures that disrupt their lives. Yet in many cases, these drugs offer little benefit, reinforcing the long-held ...
Nov 2, 2025
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Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a leading cause of heart failure, is twice as common in Black individuals as in white individuals. This excess risk is not fully explained by known risk factors such as high blood pressure or ...
Nov 2, 2025
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New research led by the University of Minnesota Medical School demonstrates that molecules acting as "molecular bumpers" and "molecular glues" can rewire G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling, turning the cell's busiest ...
Nov 2, 2025
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