Participants in a study who self-reported a stronger desire to have children showed a weaker preference for younger faces compared to those with a weaker desire to have children, according to a study by Jingheng Li and colleagues ...
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Peripheral nerves—the network connecting the brain, spinal cord, and central nervous system to the rest of the body—transmit sensory information, control muscle movements, and regulate automatic bodily functions. Bioelectronic ...
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Spatial transcriptomics provides a unique perspective on the genes that cells express and where those cells are located. However, the rapid growth of the technology has come at the cost of standardization and consistency. ...
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Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have died from related causes. Currently, nearly 40 ...
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A human challenge trial has shown a new vaccine could offer better protection against whooping cough. The new study, delivered in partnership between the University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton, and the ...
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Two related studies published today in Nature Metabolism show that a specialized intracellular recycling mechanism—chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA)—is essential for muscle health.
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It's no surprise that dogs benefit people's mental health. In a paper published in iScience, researchers point to a reason as to why: dogs prompt changes in the collection of microbes that live in and on our bodies, resulting ...
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Neutrophils are the most abundant immune cells in the body and the first to respond to infection or tissue damage. Yet despite their importance, until now very little was known about how they truly function, how they change ...
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Recommendations introduced in Australia and being considered in the UK to tell women if they have dense breasts as part of their screening results may have unintended effects and increase demand on health services, finds ...
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Trinity researchers have led a new collaborative study, combining large genetic datasets with satellite weather data and uncovering more than 30 distinct genes that influence vitamin D status, many of which were not previously ...
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