Category: 5. Health

Opioid drugs are highly effective at relieving pain but come with severe drawbacks. Their side effects range from dizziness to potentially fatal respiratory depression. Their illegal use contributes to nearly half a million deaths worldwide each year. Researchers from the University of Geneva… Continue Reading

It’s one of the basic tenets of biology: We get our DNA from our mom and our dad. But one notable exception has perplexed scientists for decades: Most animals, including humans, inherit the DNA inside their mitochondria — the cell’s energy centers — from their mothers alone, with all traces of… Continue Reading

Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), together with doctors from the Urological Clinic of the Mannheim University Hospital, have developed and successfully tested a chatbot based on artificial intelligence. “UroBot” was able to answer questions from the urology specialist… Continue Reading

People with a preference for sweets are at a higher risk of developing depression, diabetes, and suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Surrey. The study, published in the Journal of Translational Medicine, took anonymised information on the food preferences of… Continue Reading

Brigham researchers found people with wide-ranging long COVID symptoms were twice as likely to have SARS-CoV-2 proteins in their blood, compared to those without long COVID symptoms. A persistent infection could explain why some people experience long COVID symptoms, according to a new study led… Continue Reading

Researchers at Tampere University have developed a groundbreaking cell culture platform that enables the formation of two distinct but interconnected vascular networks. Their breakthrough holds tremendous promise for advancing biomedical research. Organ-on-chips are microfluidic cell cultures… Continue Reading

Just as a musician can train to more sharply distinguish subtle differences in pitch, mammals can improve their ability to interpret hearing, vision, and other senses with practice. This process, which is called perceptual learning, may be enhanced by activating a major nerve that connects the… Continue Reading

The secret to losing weight could all be down to a combination of 14 ‘skinny genes’, a new study has found. University of Essex researchers discovered they helped people drop twice as much weight when they ran for half an hour three times a week. The team — led by Dr Henry Chung, from the……

The increasing use of artificial light at night is one of the most dramatic human-made changes on earth. Streetlights and illuminated buildings are significantly changing the environment for nocturnal animals. Scientists have identified light pollution as one of the causes of the sharp decline… Continue Reading

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) — previously known as “non-alcoholic fatty liver disease” — affects about 25% of the global population. Its severe form, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), can lead to liver fibrosis and even liver failure…. Continue Reading