Category: 5. Health

Precision nutrition entails understanding how the complex system of biological, behavioral, social, … [+] environmental, economic and other factors interact to affect what you eat and what happens to your health. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help figure out and integrate these… Continue Reading

Workers at the FanDuel sports book at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford N.J. prepare to … [+] take bets moments before it opened on July 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Representative… Continue Reading

Serving undercooked bear meat is what likely led to an outbreak of 10 probable trichinellosis cases … [+] in western North Carolina. This computer illustration shows a cyst with Trichina spiralis roundworm, the cause of trichinellosis or trichinosis. (Illustration: Getty) getty It’s tricky. To… Continue Reading

A member of the medical staff prepares to administer a vaccine on December 21, 2021 at the Titanic … [+] Exhibition Centre Belfast, Northern Ireland. Getty Images Lawmakers in Northern Ireland are weighing up new rules that campaigners say could allow mandatory vaccination and lockdowns in the… Continue Reading

Researchers at the University of Dundee have revealed in the greatest detail yet the workings of molecules called ‘protein degraders’ which can be deployed to combat what have previously been regarded as ‘undruggable’ diseases, including cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. Protein degrader… Continue Reading

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization in young children due to respiratory complications such as bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Yet little is understood about why some children develop only mild symptoms while others develop severe disease. To better understand… Continue Reading

Citations P.F. Velasco and H.J. Spiers. Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation. Trends in Cognitive Science. Vol. 28, January 2024, p. 56. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.004. P.F. Velasco and A. Gleizer. Mental maps, practical mastery and… Continue Reading

In pioneering drug development, the new technology that enables the easy and rapid editing of key atoms responsible for drug efficacy has been regarded as a fundamental and “dream” technology, revolutionizing the process of discovering potential drug candidates. KAIST researchers have become the… Continue Reading

For the first time, researchers have linked specific frequent defects in sperm to risk of pregnancy complications and negative impacts on the health of the baby. The study from Lund University in Sweden shows that high proportion of father’s spermatozoa possessing DNA strand breaks is associated… Continue Reading

Immunity plays a central role in the fight against cancer. Many of the current immunotherapies aim at helping the patient’s immune system to better recognize cancer cells — by using engineered antibodies — or by simply providing it with new cells, pre-equipped to search and destroy cancer…. Continue Reading