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Advance in technology manages glucose and protects cognitive function. »
NIH findings could lead to ways to combat future SARS-CoV-2 variants. »
Organ-on-a-chip model could result in new treatment options. »
Structural findings could result in more effective, less toxic treatments. »
Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little (...) »
Complex web of disease transmission in pre-colonial South America. »
Diseases have undergone 'spillback' from humans to wild animals. »
Advance could result in promising treatments for spinal cord injuries. »
O-pH uses a low-power light system to find tooth demineralization, a condition that leads to decay. »
Pollen emissions could begin 40 days earlier in the spring. »
Cow dung, widely used as a fuel and in rituals in India, is likely behind an epidemic of black fungus that killed or maimed thousands of patients treated in the country for COVID-19 in 2021, say medical researchers. »
Researchers have identified a link which suggests that lithium could decrease the risk of developing dementia. »
An innovative bed net that immobilises mosquitoes by making them unable to move or fly (...) »
Patients who are at a higher risk of their lung cancer returning can be identified by a personalised blood test (...) »
Serum sodium levels may help identify adults with a greater chance of experiencing heart disease. »
Long-term use of implantable electronic medical devices – such as pacemakers and cochlear implants – is hampered by the body’s reaction to foreign bodies. »
Minuscule involuntary eye movements, known as (...) »
Discovery could revolutionize osteoarthritis treatment. »
A new study showed a new experimental way of turning the virulence of (...) »
Individualized models could improve arrhythmia treatment for patients with genetic heart disease. »
Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains (...) »
Researchers have found a relatively simple way to induce stem cells (...) »
Results could lead to novel approach to developing therapeutics. »
Findings could inform recommended social distancing measures. »
Scientists have found evidence that a type of the antibiotic-resistant superbug MRSA arose in nature (...) »
A new, “reliable indicator” of a person’s health problems, ones that may cause early death, has been found by a team of international scientists. »
A clinical trial has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to (...) »
SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy may cause inflammatory immune responses in the fetus, even if the virus does not infect the placenta. »
Scientists investigating the DNA outside our genes - the ‘dark genome’ - have discovered recently evolved regions that code for proteins associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. »
Study brings advances for Antarctic science and natural products chemistry. »
A study shows that a modest 4 milligrams of extra zinc a day in the diet (...) »
Cancer cells use tiny tentacles to excise immune cell mitochondria. »
Human and animal study offers insight into treating periodontal disease and other inflammatory disorders. »
A diet rich in fiber may help some people being treated for melanoma respond to immunotherapy treatment by influencing the gut microbiome, according to a new study. »
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 may be significantly better (...) »
Adding cooked black beans to a high-fat diet improved sensitivity to insulin and other measures (...) »
As Asia Pacific emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic the region plans to fall back on traditional and complementary medicine to enhance health care delivery with support from the WHO. »
Study links childhood anaemia to mothers with anaemia during pregnancy. »
A small clinical trial has found that eating during the nighttime can increase glucose levels (...) »
When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in COVID-19 (...) »
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a therapy that targets host cells (...) »
An international study of more than 50,000 (...) »
Young children with a history of eating problems in the first three years of life (...) »
Scientists have found that a process in cells may limit infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, and that mutations in the alpha and delta (...) »
Surpassed only by water, tea is the second most consumed beverage worldwide. »
Music can reduce electrical activity surges in some patients. »
Infants who sleep longer through the night and with fewer interruptions may be less likely to (...) »
Researchers probe mechanical performance of red blood cells. »
Cambridge researchers have discovered how T cells are able keep on killing as they hunt down and kill cancer cells, repeatedly reloading their toxic weapons. »
Wildfire smoke linked to fatal heart and lung conditions. »
