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Battery Of Human Body Cells Drive Multiple Diseases

Mitochondria - the 'batteries' that power our cells - play an unexpected role in common diseases such as type 2 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, concludes a study of over 350,000 people conducted by the University of Cambridge, published in Nature ...

Premature Boys are More Vulnerable to Ageing

Boys born with very low birth weights compared to girls experience faster ageing process that indicates stress early in life can affect health decades later. Researchers from McMaster University following ELBW babies since 1977 at McMaster and ...

New Tool to Help Prevent Suicide

A new tool developed by Welsh academics supports health professionals to make clinical decisions about people who may be at risk of taking their own lives. Researchers at Swansea and Cardiff universities have put together the Risk of ...

New Blood-based Biomarker to Differentiate Between Bacterial and Viral Infections

New molecular biomarkers developed by Indian Institute of Science scientists can be used in differential diagnosis of acute bacterial and viral infections. This new study is published in EBioMedicine, a journal that publishes research ...

CDC Suggests Vaccinated Persons Not to Remove Masks

New guidelines does not grant permission for widespread removal of masks for vaccinated individuals, the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said. "If they're vaccinated, they are safe. If they are not ...

Smoking and Cardiovascular Diseases Linked to Dementia

Smoking and cardiovascular disease both are found to impair the ability to learn and memorize as per the largest study at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, published in the journal ...

Low Levels of Sugar Metabolite Drives Worsening of Multiple Sclerosis

Low serum levels of the sugar N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), is associated with progressive disability and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS), as per an Irvine-led study titled, "Association of a Marker of N-Acetylglucosamine With ...

Where are Memories of Familiar Places Stored in the Brain?

Memories of familiar places are stored in three brain areas that bridge the brain's perception and memory systems, reveals a new study. As we move through the world, what we see is seamlessly integrated with our memory of the broader ...

Abortion Opposition Related to Beliefs About Fetal Pain Perception: Study

People who are against abortion often believe and consider the pain a fetus can feel, reveals a new study conducted by University of Otago. Lead author Emma Harcourt, PhD candidate in Otago's Centre for Science Communication, says ...

Brain Mechanism of Curiosity Unraveled: Study

New brain circuit underlying curiosity and novelty seeking behavior has been discovered by the researchers, reveals a new study. Curiosity is the motivational drive for exploring and investigating the unknown and making new discoveries. It is ...

How can We Prevent the Next Pandemic?

Many respiratory diseases can be transmitted through the air, just like Covid-19. Therefore while constructing buildings, the amount of ventilation needed should also be kept in mind to prevent the next pandemic, reveals a new study. Humans in ...

Organic Meat Carry Lesser Chance Of Bacterial Contamination

Contamination with bacteria that can sicken people, including dangerous, multidrug-resistant organisms, is less likely to occur in certified organic meat by the U.S. Department of Agriculture compared to conventionally produced meat, according ...

Pathology of Alzheimer’s linked to an Anesthesia

Progression of Alzheimer's disease and understanding the mechanisms behind its tau spread and its consequences may point to new prevention and treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Alzheimer's disease (AD) ...

New Ebolavirus Vaccine Drives Stronger Antibody Response

New Ebolavirus vaccine design may provide various benefits over standard vaccine approaches. In the new design, described in a paper in Nature Communications , copies of the Ebola virus outer spike protein, known as the glycoprotein, are ...

Insights into How the Body Maintains Good Gut Bacteria

Early life is a critical time when the immune system learns to recognize gut bacteria and sets up surveillance that keeps them in check. Defects in these mechanisms could help explain why the immune system sometimes attacks good bacteria in the ...