CVS Health Thursday sued Arkansas, trying to thwart a law the healthcare company said would lead to … More
CVS Health Thursday sued the state of Arkansas, trying to thwart a law the healthcare company said would lead to the closure of all 23 CVS drugstores in the…
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A new substitute for forever chemicals is non-toxic material is water- and oil-resistant, … More
It’s one of those quiet realities of modern life: we unwrap our sandwich or sip from a paper cup, unaware that the packaging protecting our food might be leaching harmful chemicals. For decades, food packaging has relied on PFAS — a family of so-called ‘forever chemicals’ — to keep oil and water from soaking through paper products. But as we now know,…
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Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and the University of Colorado (USA), in collaboration with various institutions in America and Europe, reveal that a recently identified second species of bacteria responsible for leprosy, Mycobacterium lepromatosis, has been infecting humans in the Americas for at least 1,000 years, several…
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We typically spend 80% of our time indoors, where the quality of the air we breathe depends on the age and type of building we occupy, as well as indoor pollution and outdoor pollution sources. But also playing an important role is the kind of HVAC system used to heat, ventilate and cool the building, according to new research from the University of Utah.
Using the Salt Lake City campus as a living laboratory, the College of Engineering teamed up with Facilities Management and occupational…
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Arriving home after a long day may be a relief, but for some people, seeing their front door or inserting a key into the lock triggers a powerful urge to pee. Known as “latchkey incontinence,” this phenomenon is the subject of a new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh who found that mindfulness training and/or non-invasive brain stimulation could reduce bladder leaks and feelings of urgency evoked by these cues.
The findings of the pilot study, the first evaluation of…
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Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time it took to kill its victims, but these forms of plague ultimately died out.
A study by researchers at McMaster University and France’s Institut Pasteur, published today in the journal Science, addresses some fundamental questions related to pandemics: how do they enter human populations, cause…
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We don’t always understand our emotions, but we couldn’t lead normal lives without them. They steer us through life, guiding the decisions we make and the actions we take. But if they’re inappropriate or stick around for too long, they can cause trouble.
Neuroscientists and psychiatrists, despite their best efforts, don’t understand nearly enough about the brain activity underlying our emotions, how they make us tick and how they can make us sick.
Now, in a study scheduled to publish May 29…
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In a groundbreaking study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Dundee have shed new light on the fundamental mechanisms governing the dynamic growth of microtubules — the vital protein structures forming the cell’s internal skeleton.
Microtubules are the unsung heroes within our cells, providing structural support and generating dynamic forces that push and pull, crucial…
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The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study from researchers at UCL, drug discovery company LinkGevity and the European Space Agency (ESA).
In the study, published in Nature Oncogene, a world-leading international team of scientists and clinicians explore the potential of necrosis — when cells die unexpectedly as a result of infection, injury or…
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New techniques used to analyse soft tissue in dinosaur fossils may hold the key to new cancer discoveries, according to a new study published in the journal Biology.
Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Imperial College London analysed dinosaur fossils using advanced paleoproteomic techniques, a method that holds promise for uncovering molecular data from ancient specimens.
The researchers discovered red blood cell-like structures in a fossil while studying a Telmatosaurus…
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