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IgNobel 'Butt Breathing' idea from 2024 moves closer to real treatment
The technique sounds so outlandish that it won an IgNobel prize in 2024. But the science behind rescuing people with blocked airways and clogged lungs by rectally delivering oxygen to the body is no joke.
Oct 20, 2025
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Poor translations represent a hidden barrier to global health collaboration
Amid the escalating threat of climate change, environmental degradation and pandemics, global health depends more than ever on coordinated, cross-sectoral action. It's why a growing number of researchers, practitioners and ...
Oct 20, 2025
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Lab-grown brains with all major cell types support next-generation therapy research
A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown from individual donors' ...
Oct 18, 2025
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Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening
Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele.
Oct 18, 2025
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Building stronger health systems saves lives, Madagascar experiment shows
The idea that building better health care systems can improve and save people's lives may seem obvious, but until now there has been little published with the data and statistical muscle to prove it.
Oct 17, 2025
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Blocking a key protein halts lung scarring in mouse model of fibrosis
Pulmonary fibrosis is a deadly disease in which the lungs become thickened and scarred, gradually losing their ability to deliver oxygen to the body. Now, scientists at UC San Francisco have identified a key cellular switch ...
Oct 17, 2025
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Preventing overhydration: Study uncovers a neural circuit that prompts mice to stop drinking
Identifying the neural mechanisms that support the regulation of vital physiological processes, such as drinking, eating and sleeping, is a long-standing goal within the neuroscience research community. As the disruption ...
Discovery of 'primed' state in neuromuscular receptors may guide future drug design
An international research team led by a University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine investigator has revealed ultra-detailed intricacies in how nerve signals activate at the neuromuscular junction, a specialized synapse that ...
Oct 16, 2025
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Gut microbiome affects alcohol preference by influencing brain's reward system
Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences have found a surprising connection between a fungus associated with alcohol use disorder and the brain's dopamine reward ...
Oct 16, 2025
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In the midst of a global dengue epidemic, one program kept a Brazilian city safe
Dengue has been a public health problem in the tropical world for decades and 2024 saw a global dengue surge, with more than 14 million cases and 10 thousand deaths reported worldwide—more than double the figures for dengue ...
Oct 16, 2025
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Undergraduate researcher identifies virus's ability to replicate and cause cancer
When Sean Fletcher walked into Sam Biswas' Medical and Molecular Sciences (MMSC) lab at the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences during the summer of his first year, he had no research or laboratory experience.
Oct 16, 2025
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Collaboration finds no loss of patient confidence in environmentally friendly doctors
The doctor suggests opting for a treatment that is better for the environment. How do patients react to this? Doctors and psychologists together discovered that this has little impact on patient confidence in the doctor.
Oct 16, 2025
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Impostor study participants could distort health research and endanger patient outcomes
Impostor participants threaten the integrity of health research, and by extension, the policies and clinical decisions built on it, warn experts in The BMJ today.
Oct 15, 2025
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Tiny regenerative worm offers insights into tissue repair and regenerative medicine
Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research reveals planarian stem cells ignore their nearest neighbors and instead respond to signals ...
Oct 15, 2025
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Absence of key protein scrambles sperm DNA, revealing potential cause of male infertility
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published an analysis that reveals new functions of the RAD21L protein—a germline-specific cohesin—crucial for male fertility. The study, carried out ...
Oct 15, 2025
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Bacterial communication delays wound healing by disrupting skin cell repair
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus—one of the most common causes of skin and soft tissue infections worldwide—delays ...
Oct 15, 2025
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Researchers show benefit of ultra-deep RNA sequencing in Mendelian disorder diagnostics
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a powerful tool in diagnosing Mendelian disorders, but the optimized sequencing depth for this technology has not yet been determined. In a new study published in the American Journal of Human ...
Oct 15, 2025
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A new clue to male fertility: Omega-3 fatty acid DHA shown to relax reproductive tract muscle
A research team has discovered that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a major omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oil, directly relaxes smooth muscle in the male reproductive tract by blocking specific calcium channels.
Oct 15, 2025
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Cardamom seeds revealed as potential source of antiviral treatment
Plant-based materials have traditionally been used to treat a variety of viral infections. Now, researchers have found that cardamom seed extract, as well as its main bioactive ingredient, 1,8-cineole, can have potent antiviral ...
Oct 14, 2025
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250-year-old drug enters clinical trial as potential treatment for deadly pancreatic cancer
Researchers in Sweden are testing a 250-year-old medicine in patients with one of the world's deadliest cancers.
Oct 14, 2025
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Unlocking the skin's natural healing power for regenerative medicine
Our skin protects us from everyday mechanical stresses, like friction, cuts, and impacts. A key part of this function—standing as a bulwark against the outside world—is the skin's amazing ability to regenerate and heal. ...
Oct 13, 2025
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mRNA therapy restores sperm production and fertility in mice
For many couples facing infertility, medicine offers a range of solutions. But for men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA)—a genetic condition where sperm production stalls—options remain limited.
Oct 13, 2025
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Exploring the therapeutic potential of hypothermia for neural health
Hypothermia can preserve neuron health following brain injury, but complications from external cooling make it less promising therapeutically. Recent evidence suggests that activating a specific neuron population triggers ...
Oct 13, 2025
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New injectable gel shows promise as voice loss treatment
McGill University researchers have engineered a new hydrogel that shows early promise as a treatment for people with vocal cord injuries.
Oct 12, 2025
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Ketogenic diet may protect against stress experienced in the womb
Researchers have shown that young rats fed a ketogenic diet—a diet with high fat and low carbohydrates—are protected from the lasting experience of pre‑natal stress. This work, which has not yet been confirmed in humans, ...
Oct 11, 2025
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