Shingles is a painful and serious condition affecting many older people. It is caused by the herpes zoster virus, which can flare up in people who previously had chickenpox. A vaccine against shingles (Zostavax) was introduced ...
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Musicians don't just learn movement sequences faster; they predict what's coming next sooner, according to new research that also found newly formed motor memories can be disrupted by seeing different visual sequences shortly ...
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The secret to a long life may lie in the genomes of the longest-lived mammals for their size: bats. That idea captivated Juan Manuel Vazquez when he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, but at the time he ...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that particularly affects young adults. The disease is driven by immune cells—primarily what are known as T lymphocytes. These cells normally fight off ...
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Nearly 7 million people in the United States live with heart failure—and that incidence is expected to climb in the coming decades. LUMINARA, a new phase 2b clinical trial led by James Januzzi, a cardiologist from the Mass ...
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Student team Solar Team Eindhoven from Eindhoven University of Technology has successfully completed the first practical tests of the solar ambulance Stella Juva in Kenya. The ambulance generates more solar energy than it ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Men already genetically at risk for the most common form of hair loss have a 7% added risk of losing their hair if they use drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound for type 2 diabetes and obesity, a new study shows.
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Deep within the cellular landscape, a quiet failure was taking place, impeding a potentially successful form of cancer treatment. For years, scientists hoped an essential part of the innate immune system that detects foreign ...
The brain may "tag" experiences during learning to better consolidate memories of them during sleep, according to a study published Aug. 27 in the journal PLOS Biology by Dan Denis from the University of York, United Kingdom, ...
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When researchers at Lund University investigated how UM171, a molecule used to make blood stem cells multiply, works, they made an unexpected connection. The results provide new insights into how one of the most common malignant ...
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