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Category: 4. Health

  • High blood pressure? Eat more bananas

    High blood pressure? Eat more bananas

    New research from the University of Waterloo suggests increasing the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium intake may be more effective for lowering blood pressure than simply reducing sodium intake.

    High blood pressure affects over 30 per cent of adults globally. It’s the leading cause of coronary heart disease and stroke and may also lead to other afflictions like chronic kidney disease, heart failure, irregular heartbeats, and dementia.

    “Usually, when we have high blood pressure, we are…

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  • Pioneering method detects oral cancer earlier

    Pioneering method detects oral cancer earlier

    The powerful potential of nano technologies and AI to detect oral cancer earlier and more accurately have been revealed by a University of Otago — Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study.

    Researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry combined atomic force microscopy (AFM) with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect changes in cancer cells at a very small scale.

    Senior author Associate Professor Peter Mei says the pioneering method is a substantial advancement in cancer diagnostics.

    “Combining the two…

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  • Sleep matters: Duration, timing, quality and more may affect cardiovascular disease risk

    Sleep matters: Duration, timing, quality and more may affect cardiovascular disease risk

    Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, daytime functioning and self-reported sleep satisfaction, and addressing these different dimensions of sleep may help to reduce cardiometabolic health and related risk factors, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

    The new scientific statement, “Multidimensional Sleep Health:…

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  • Light bulb moment for understanding DNA repair switches

    Light bulb moment for understanding DNA repair switches

    Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

    The publication of two papers demonstrates how work led by laboratories from the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, and School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham has made strides in understanding how the repair process is correctly orchestrated.

    The importance of understanding DNA repair

    Our cells…

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  • New method for detecting nanoplastics in body fluids

    New method for detecting nanoplastics in body fluids

    Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in organs, blood and other body fluids. In the FFG bridge project Nano-VISION, which was launched two years ago together with the start-up BRAVE Analytics, a team led by Harald Fitzek from the Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and an…

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  • Stress, depression factor into link between insomnia, heavy drinking

    Stress, depression factor into link between insomnia, heavy drinking

    Insomnia and hazardous drinking are so closely intertwined that estimates suggest at least one-third, and as many as 91%, of people who have a hard time with sleep also misuse alcohol.

    A new study suggests that perceived stress and depression factor into the relationship between the two conditions — perhaps not a surprise. But because the relationship between insomnia and heavy drinking goes in both directions, the influence of stress or depression depends on which condition came first, the…

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  • New tool for cutting DNA: Promising prospects for biotechnology

    New tool for cutting DNA: Promising prospects for biotechnology

    An INRS team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA.

    A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a derivative of the immune system of bacteria, CRISPR enables double strands of nucleotides in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to be cut. This makes it possible to specifically modify a targeted gene in plant, animal and human cells. Ultimately, CRISPR became a preferred…

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  • Combination of drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks

    Combination of drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks

    Patients who receive an add-on medication soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive it later, or not all.

    This is according to a new study from researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Imperial College London. The findings suggest that treating patients earlier with a combination of statins and the cholesterol-lowering drug ezetimibe could prevent thousands of new heart attacks over a decade.

    Cardiovascular disease is by far the most common…

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  • A mysterious pathogen: Oropouche virus more common in Latin America than previously thought

    A mysterious pathogen: Oropouche virus more common in Latin America than previously thought

    Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indications that infections during pregnancy can cause damage to unborn babies. Researchers at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now determined that the virus is much more widespread in Latin America than previously assumed. Their study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, also suggests that climatic conditions have a significant influence on the virus’s spread.

    Oropouche virus…

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  • Recently discovered immune cell type is key to understanding food allergies

    Recently discovered immune cell type is key to understanding food allergies

    The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies can result. Immune cells are known to ignore or “tolerate” molecules found on the body’s own healthy cells, for instance, as well as nonthreatening substances from outside the body like food. How the system achieves the latter has been unclear.

    Now, a new study led by researchers at NYU Langone Health has revealed that a special group of cells in the intestines tamp down…

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