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New framework identifies 108 lysosomal disorders, nearly doubling recognized conditions
Lysosomal disorders can have devastating effects on patients but findings from a University of Sheffield-led collaborati…
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Newly found dendrite bottlenecks may reshape how neurons handle information
Neurons receive thousands of signals via tree-like extensions called dendrites. Until now, these dendrites were thought …
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Next Generation Longevity heads to Osaka
NGL 2026 will bring clinicians, scientists, founders and investors together to turn healthspan ideas into clinical actio…
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Miniaturized bone marrow-on-a-chip tracks human immune cells as they build lasting antibody defenses
A scientific team has developed a laboratory model that reveals how antibody-producing plasma cells migrate, mature and …
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Examining the neural basis of socially anxious behaviors
People with social anxiety are especially sensitive to unpleasant outcomes, and this sensitivity contributes to their te…
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Early deafness may reshape the brain to devote more resources to peripheral vision
People with intact hearing can use sound as an alert system for events outside their direct line of sight. This seemingl…
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When a tick bite no longer means a trip to the emergency room
In 2021, Nova Scotia began allowing pharmacists to prescribe preventive treatment for Lyme disease after high-risk tick …
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Metabolic vulnerability identified that may affect heart development
The heart undergoes major changes during the first weeks of life. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown th…
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Why so few older Americans get counseling—and how it could help
People are living longer, reshaping what it means to grow old. By the late 2060s, an estimated 2.5 billion people worldw…
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Dust mites plus silica can trigger a pathway to steroid-resistant lung inflammation
Inflammation associated with asthma and other allergic airway diseases can be significantly worsened by exposure to both…
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Why do I talk in my sleep? A sleep psychologist explains
"Why do people speak while they are sleeping?—Mubina, age 15, Uzbekistan"…
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Building stronger teams, in sports and beyond
A sports psychology intervention aimed at improving the culture of the McGill Redbirds football team provides valuable i…
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Brain-computer interface enables avatar speech and gestures for people with paralysis
A scientific team has shown that a new brain-computer interface (BCI) can allow people with vocal tract and bodily paral…
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Scientists discover strange link between low vitamin D and pain
Low vitamin D levels may make recovery from breast cancer surgery more painful, according to a study of 184 women underg…
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Cancer is rising in younger adults. Faster biological aging may help explain why
Cancer rates are rising in adults under 55, and new research suggests accelerated biological aging may be one piece of t…
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University students are less physically active and more sedentary than older adults in their 70s, study finds
Researchers at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) have found t…
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Common antibiotic linked to possible higher death risk
Cefepime is a fourth-generation antibiotic widely used to treat serious bacterial infections and febrile neutropenia—a f…
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Are we really bad at reading people? Politeness may skew the evidence
A new ESMT Berlin study suggests that many widely held assumptions about social misjudgments may stem from flawed study …
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Researchers identify barriers to faster stroke treatment
When someone experiences a stroke, every minute can mean the difference between recovery and permanent disability.…
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Pharmacogenomics: How your genes could help doctors choose the right medicine and dose
Two people can take the same dose of the same medicine and have very different results. One may improve, while the other…
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What are we dying from?
Cardiovascular diseases now account for a third of deaths in adults over 40 in a rural South African population.…
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Fine-tuning medical AI can improve diagnosis but also creates privacy risks
Qingyu Chen, PhD, and his team set out to study how artificial intelligence language models are adapted for medicine and…
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NKGen Biotech to present Alzheimer’s and brain disease trial data at Korea summit
NKGen Biotech announced that Chairman and CEO Paul Y. Song, M.D., will present on troculeucel, the company’s lead invest…
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Vincere Biosciences wins $2.7m NIH grant to advance acute kidney injury drug
Vincere Biosciences received a $2.7 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant over two years from the Na…