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Category: 4. Health

  • Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds

    Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds

    A new study from researchers at the George Washington University has found that certain bacteria living in the nose may influence how likely someone is to get a COVID-19 infection. Published in EBioMedicine, the research reveals that certain types of nasal bacteria can affect the levels of key proteins the virus needs to enter human cells, offering new insight into why some people are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others.

    “We’ve known that the virus SARS-CoV-2 enters the body through the…

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  • Europe’s population is adapting better to cold than to heat

    Europe’s population is adapting better to cold than to heat

    A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high temperatures over the last two decades. The research, carried out in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) and published in The Lancet Planetary Health, shows that there has been a significant decrease in cold-related mortality risk in recent years compared to the first decade of…

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  • Congress Ought To Dismantle The Healthcare Deep State

    Congress Ought To Dismantle The Healthcare Deep State

    One senior Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer is reportedly trying to shield the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) from mass layoffs and budget cuts, according to a recent Politico expose. That’s a shame. If there’s any agency in…

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  • Father with Alzheimer’s? You may be more at risk of brain changes

    Father with Alzheimer’s? You may be more at risk of brain changes

    While some studies have suggested that having a mother with Alzheimer’s disease may put you more at risk of developing the disease, a new study finds that having a father with the disease may be tied to a greater spread of the tau protein in the brain that is a sign of the disease, according to a study published on April 9, 2025, online in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that having a father with Alzheimer’s results in these…

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  • Eight or more drinks per week linked to signs of injury in the brain

    Eight or more drinks per week linked to signs of injury in the brain

    Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are associated with memory and thinking problems, according to a study published on April 9, 2025, online in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that heavy drinking causes brain injury; it only shows an association.

    Hyaline arteriolosclerosis is a condition that causes…

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  • Rapid growth of blood cancer driven by a single genetic ‘hit’

    Rapid growth of blood cancer driven by a single genetic ‘hit’

    A new study has unveiled when chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, arises in life and how fast it grows. Researchers reveal explosive growth rates of cancerous cells years before diagnosis and variation in these rates of growth between patients. Such rapid growth rates had previously not been observed in most other cancers.

    Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators used whole genome sequencing to study when BCR::ABL1…

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  • Further translation of the language of the genome

    Further translation of the language of the genome

    New research has uncovered more about the complexity of human gene regulation by identifying certain sequences of proteins called transcription factors that bind to DNA and regulate the expression of human genes.

    Published today (9 April) in Nature, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge and their collaborators explored how DNA-guided transcription factors interact with each other.

    This research adds to the groundwork of understanding the complex language…

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  • Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

    Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

    The process of discovering molecules that have the properties needed to create new medicines and materials is cumbersome and expensive, consuming vast computational resources and months of human labor to narrow down the enormous space of potential candidates.

    Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT could streamline this process, but enabling an LLM to understand and reason about the atoms and bonds that form a molecule, the same way it does with words that form sentences, has presented a…

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  • What links cannabis use and psychosis? Researchers point to brain’s dopamine system

    What links cannabis use and psychosis? Researchers point to brain’s dopamine system

    A McGill University-led study found that people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) had elevated dopamine levels in a brain region associated with psychosis.

    “This could help explain why cannabis use increases the risk of hallucinations and delusions, key symptoms of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders,” said first author Jessica Ahrens, a PhD student in McGill’s Integrated Program in Neuroscience.

    Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps regulate mood and motivation, and an excess is…

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  • Protein necessary for fruit fly fertility

    Protein necessary for fruit fly fertility

    The global birthrate has been in significant decline for decades. In the U.S., couples are deciding to have children later in life. A 2022 U.S. Census data analysis of Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics data, reveals that fertility rates for women age 20-24 declined by 43% during the period from 1990 to 2013. But the numbers of women age 35-39 giving birth increased by 67%, and for women between 40- 44 that increase was nearly 139%.

    Women who decide to have children in…

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