Sale of genetic testing company raises concerns about privacy of 23andMe’s 15 million customers.
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Regeneron buys 23andMe for $256m after bankruptcy
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Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence
Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Obesity affects a substantial proportion of patients with heart failure (HF) and it has been reported that the risk of HF increases as body mass index (BMI) increases.2 Study presenter, Dr. Amra Jujic from Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, explained why the current analysis was carried out: “BMI is the?most…
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Fast food, fast impact: How fatty meals rapidly weaken our gut defenses
A study led by researchers from WEHI (Melbourne, Australia) has become the first in the world to unravel the immediate effects of a high-fat diet on our gut health.
The pre-clinical study found even a few meals high in saturated fats can cause inflammation in the body, despite physical symptoms — in the form of chronic inflammation — potentially taking years to appear.
The landmark findings are the first to show how rapidly the foods we eat can impact our gut defences, paving the way for…
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Survival trick: Pathogen taps iron source in immune cells
The body defends itself against pathogens by depriving them of vital iron. However, this strategy doesn’t always succeed against Salmonella. Researchers at the University of Basel have discovered that these bacteria specifically target iron-rich regions within immune cells to replicate. Their findings on how pathogens evade the immune defense are important for fighting infections.
Our body keeps bacterial pathogens under control by restricting their access to essential nutrients such as…
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After cardiac event, people who regularly sit for too long had higher risk of another event
People who sit or remain sedentary for more than 14 hours a day, on average, may have a higher risk of a cardiovascular event or death in the year after treatment at a hospital for symptoms of a heart attack such as chest pain, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s peer-reviewed scientific journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Previous research from the study authors found that people who had experienced a heart attack were spending…
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More donor hearts by extending the preservation time
A new discovery by Mayo Clinic researchers could mean more donor hearts are available for heart transplant, giving more people a second chance at life. In findings published in Nature Cardiovascular Research, a team led by Mayo Clinic cardiac surgeon Paul Tang, M.D., Ph.D., identified a biological process that contributes to donor heart injury during cold storage. The researchers found that a drug already used to treat heart conditions can prevent this damage.
Heart transplantation is the…
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Don’t hit snooze on new research about waking up each morning
Sleep experts recommend against snoozing after a wake-up alarm, but a study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham shows the practice is common, with more than 50% of sleep sessions logged ending in a snooze alarm and users spending 11 minutes on average snoozing
Even though using the snooze function on an alarm clock isn’t recommended by sleep experts, it’s a common practice, according to a new study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham. Using data from the sleep analysis app…
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Family of parasite proteins presents new potential malaria treatment target
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans.
Targeting these proteins may hold promise for identifying new drugs that are less susceptible to resistance.
Malaria infects over 200 million and kills over 500,000 people every year. It is caused by Plasmodium parasites infecting red blood cells…
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Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug
The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it’s difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn’t been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have cracked the last part of a code that science has struggled with for 30 years. The breakthrough could halve the price of the drug and make production far more sustainable.
Taxol is one of the most commonly prescribed chemotherapy drugs for breast, ovarian,…
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A first blueprint of chemical transport pathways in human cells
An unprecedented international effort to decode how cells manage the transport of chemical substances has culminated in four groundbreaking studies published in Molecular Systems Biology. Led by Giulio Superti-Furga at CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and supported by an international consortium of academic and pharmaceutical partners under the European Union’s Innovative Medicines Initiative, this decade-long project provides the first…
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