A new study confirms that children of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology compared to children whose parents do not have these conditions. The study, published in the journal European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, examines how the…
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Promising new way to modulate brain cell activity to potentially treat major depressive disorder in adults
A mechanism involving potassium channels in the brain that control brain cell activity could provide a new and fundamentally different way of treating depression symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder, according to two complementary papers published recently by researchers at the…
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Engineered bacteria can deliver antiviral therapies, vaccines
New research from the University of Cincinnati demonstrates how specially engineered bacteria taken orally can operate as a delivery system for antiviral therapies and vaccines.
The research, led by Nalinikanth Kotagiri, PhD, was recently published in the journal Gut Microbes.
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Why common leukemia treatments fail in some patients
An international study led by the University of Colorado Cancer Center has uncovered why a widely used treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) doesn’t work for everyone. The findings could help doctors better match patients with the therapies most likely to work for them.
The study was…
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Macron’s party moots banning headscarves in public for under-15s | France
Emmanuel Macron’s centrist political party has suggested banning girls under 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in all public places, as the president chaired a high-level government meeting to discuss what it called “political Islamism”…
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Thailand vows tighter controls of cannabis as smuggling cases among tourists soar
Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalise cannabis in 2022, which has boosted the country’s tourism industry and spawned thousands of shops.
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This gene variant contributed to the dietary and physiological evolution of modern humans
Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in the Cell Press journal Cell Genomics on May 21, researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the co-evolution of these traits. This…
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Salivary gland regenerative biobank to combat chronic dry mouth
Millions of people are affected by chronic dry mouth, or xerostomia, an agonizing side effect of damaged salivary glands. While chemotherapy and radiation treatment for head and neck cancer are the most common causes of this, aging, certain medications and other factors, including diabetes,…
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‘Barcodes’ written into our DNA reveal how blood ages
A new study in the journal Nature explains how age reshapes the blood system. In both humans and mice, a few stem cells, or “clones,” outcompete their neighbours and gradually take over blood production. The blood stem cell reservoir shrinks and becomes dominated by clones which show a…
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Newfound mechanism rewires cellular energy processing for drastic weight loss
Mice genetically engineered to lack the ability to make the amino acid cysteine, and fed a cysteine-free diet, lost 30 percent of their body weight in just one week, a new study shows.
Published online May 21 in Nature, the work found that cysteine depletion disrupts the normal metabolic…
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