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How deep sleep shapes mental resilience to stressful situations
Most adult sleep is non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep, which is restorative and promotes resilience to stressful co…
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How the heart, lungs and brain work together to shape experience
People speak of "butterflies in the stomach," a "racing heart," being "choked up" or needing to "catch breath." Language…
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Caregivers for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder report increased stress and relational strengths
Caregivers of people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) identified stress levels and emotional health as the fa…
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Understudied gut fungus may help repair radiation-damaged DNA and limit intestinal injury
The gut microbiome has been a popular topic for a while now, but the focus is usually on good bacteria. A new study, pub…
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Inside the brain: Rethinking the mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. For many years, researchers believed that its main cause was a …
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How losing the 'guardian of the genome' can damage DNA and drive cancer
A new study finds that when p53, one of the most important cancer-protecting genes, stops working, cells produce too muc…
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Celularity lands $300m MuseCell manufacturing deal
Deal with Singapore’s MuseCell Innovations could bring $300 million in business and 200 jobs to Celularity’s cell platfo…
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Brain's inhibitory circuits emerge as a potential brake on adult glioma progression
Brain tumors do not grow in isolation. They develop within the highly active environment of the brain, where neurons con…
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Newly discovered stem cell reveals potential drug target for spinal stenosis
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery have discovered the unspecialized stem cells that…
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Trial: Prostate cancer fitness cuts treatment side effects
Findings from STAMINA, the largest trial of its kind, published in The Lancet Oncology, show that a purpose-designed lif…
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Scientists in China discover new tick-borne virus that causes flu-like illness
Scientists in China have identified a novel tick-borne virus that causes an influenza-like illness characterized by feve…
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Bacteria that can make testosterone: What could that mean for prostate cancer?
Many prostate cancers depend on androgen hormones, including testosterone, to grow. That is why treatments for advanced …
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Weight loss surgery can improve reproductive health of women living with obesity
Metabolic bariatric surgery improves menstrual cycle frequency and symptoms of polycystic ovaries in women living with o…
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Historic smallpox records digitized to support future outbreak research
NDORMS DPhil student Rabia Khan has led a collaborative project to digitize historic records from the world's last natur…
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Does 'R U OK? Day' actually improve people's mental health?
Every September, Australians are encouraged to ask someone a simple question: "Are you OK?"…
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Pigmentation measurement could improve laser safety standards across skin tones
Lasers are used in a growing number of medical and imaging applications, from surgery to photoacoustic imaging. To prote…
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Experimental cancer drug could help millions of women battling osteoporosis and midlife weight gain
An experimental cancer drug could stop osteoporosis and help women stay slim after menopause, according to new research …
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N. Macedonia reports eighth West Nile virus death
North Macedonia confirmed Sunday its eighth death from West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne infection currently sweeping se…
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Laughter therapy can help people with COPD breathe more easily
A clinical trial for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) shows that laughter therapy can reduce b…
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Smoking's social myth challenged as 50,000-person study links it to loneliness
Smoking is not social and leads to increased loneliness, according to a large Europe-wide study presented at the Europea…
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Popular brain supplement linked to shorter lifespan in men
A large study involving more than 270,000 people has linked higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine to a shorter …
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Scientists find breast cancer cells hiding behind protective “shields”
Researchers have mapped breast tumors in striking detail and uncovered hidden pockets of dormant cancer cells that may h…
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Brain signaling mechanism may explain clozapine weight gain
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a key brain signaling pathway that appears to drive the su…
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End of free school meal program led to increased stress and hunger, poorer diets and reduced focus, say teachers
How did students' diets and behavior change after the expiration of a pandemic-era universal free school meal program in…