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Body temperature has decreased in high-income populations in the last two centuries, calling into question the famous 37°C guideline for normal body...
Determining the origin of the foods we eat is harder than ever in our globalized world, yet in the case of food borne illness this answer could save lives and...
The less you eat, the more weight you lose...is this always the case? New insights on the metabolism of branched-chain amino acids might shift this paradigm...
With age, our muscles gradually lose their energy and strength. The decreased amount of proteins in mitochondria, the power plants of cells, seems to be...
Tea is the second most consumed beverage worldwide. Apart from its delicious taste, it has many benefits for human health. A recent study suggests green tea...
Gene editing, the molecular technique which allows DNA modifications, is evolving to an unprecedented precision. CRISPR-Cas9, the groundbreaking tool used in...
As COVID-19 is raging worldwide, mathematical models tailored to the pandemic suggest the most effective interventions to contain the contagion. Physical...
Malaria is a life-threatening tropical disease globally spreading out, and scientists have been seeking an effective way to control its prevalence. Here, we...
Before footwear, calluses served as the primary protection for our feet. To understand how our species walks safely without shoes, we investigated foot skin...
Mosquitoes are the worlds’ deadliest animal due to their role in spreading Malaria. The revolutionary molecular technique known as CRISPR may help containing...
There has been a widespread belief that eating breakfast is central to tackling overweight and obesity, one of our major medical and public health challenges....
COVID-19 is raging across the world. Lacking available treatments, policymakers are looking for efficient public health measures that could turn the tide. The...
A new geometric shape has been described in epithelial cells. This type of cells blocks, called Scutoids, are necessary for curving the epithelial tissues and...
Even viruses have their weak spots. In this study, Zika's one might have been identified, allowing further steps in the battle against this compromising...
The universal cellular process of autophagy that is highly important for young worms becomes malfunctioned in old worms and leads to a shorter life.
Adults with a first-degree relative with Alzheimer's disease perform more poorly on online paired-learning tasks than adults without such a family history....
The innovative molecular technique known as CRISPR/Cas9 opens new landscapes for treating genetic disorders otherwise incurable.
The brain is one of the most complex organs of the human body. For a long time, it was thought that the brain is hermetically sheltered from entry by invaders,...
A plague pandemic reached the Roman Empire in the sixth century. Did it contribute to its fall? An interdisciplinary methodological approach provides new...
Low protein diets help us improve health and reduce the risk of death. But, how these diets are beneficial in metabolism remains mysterious. Our study suggests...
A study evidences the potential benefits of fisetin, a natural molecule found in strawberries, in fighting Alzheimer's disease.
Monitoring brain electrical activities helps us discern brain states. But understanding how we sleep is not easy. While deep dreamless sleep brings easily...
We are what we eat – similarly, our environment depends more and more on our choices for our daily menu. National recommended diets are intended to provide us...
Female mosquitoes pass on malaria parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people each year. Despite the progress we have made to prevent this disease,...
While it is widely known that cigarettes can lead to lung cancer development, other factors may pose similar hazards with even more resonance. One of them is...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is an uncurable and debilitating disease. The use of therapeutical stem cells represents an...
The current study highlights the effect of a meningococcal vaccine on gonorrhoea, a disease caused by a superbug that has evaded vaccine development for over...
Symptomatic COVID-19 cases in children are uncommon and their clinical course is relatively mild. In particular, infected children displayed non-specific lung...
Scientists have developed a breakthrough method to genetically edit the genome of a developing mice fetus. This revolutionary treatment allows to treat a...
The relationship between metabolism and hypertension should not be underestimated! There is a new way of treating hypertension caused by dietary salt:...
Anecdotally, there are lots of ways to go gray, but one that’s really true has to do with how pigment cells in the hair deal with viral infection. In response...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a devastating, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder. Now researchers demonstrate that a novel gene therapy treatment...
Occasionally, nature comes up with a solution to a problem that is striking in its elegance. For example, generating copies of something too small to fit into...
All blood cells are made in the bone marrow with an estimated production of 1 million white cells per second. In response to infection white cell production...
