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  • Perceiving one’s own body: Babies sense their heartbeat and breathing

    Perceiving one’s own body: Babies sense their heartbeat and breathing

    Body signals such as heartbeat and breathing accompany us constantly, often unnoticed as background noise of our perception. Even in the earliest years of life, these signals are important as they contribute to the development of self-awareness and identity. However, until know little has been known about whether and how babies can perceive their own body signals.

    A recent study from Wiener Kinderstudien Lab at the University of Vienna demonstrates for the first time that babies as young as…

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  • Researchers discover way to predict treatment success for parasitic skin disease

    Researchers discover way to predict treatment success for parasitic skin disease

    Nearly one million people worldwide are plagued annually by cutaneous leishmaniasis, a devastating skin infection caused by the Leishmania parasite. Predominantly affecting vulnerable populations in tropical and subtropical regions like North Africa and South America, this disease thrives in areas marked by malnutrition, poor housing and population displacement. Left untreated, it can lead to lifelong scars, debilitating disability and deep social stigma. Despite its global impact, there is…

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  • Brain’s own repair mechanism: New neurons may reverse damage in Huntington’s disease

    Brain’s own repair mechanism: New neurons may reverse damage in Huntington’s disease

    New research shows that the adult brain can generate new neurons that integrate into key motor circuits. The findings demonstrate that stimulating natural brain processes may help repair damaged neural networks in Huntington’s and other diseases.

    “Our research shows that we can encourage the brain’s own cells to grow new neurons that join in naturally with the circuits controlling movement,” said Abdellatif Benraiss, PhD, a senior author of the study, which appears in the journal Cell…

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  • Molecules that fight infection also act on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability

    Molecules that fight infection also act on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability

    Immune molecules called cytokines play important roles in the body’s defense against infection, helping to control inflammation and coordinating the responses of other immune cells. A growing body of evidence suggests that some of these molecules also influence the brain, leading to behavioral changes during illness.

    Two new studies from MIT and Harvard Medical School, focused on a cytokine called IL-17, now add to that evidence. The researchers found that IL-17 acts on two distinct brain…

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  • Home care cooperatives may be key to addressing the critical shortage of caregivers for the elderly

    Home care cooperatives may be key to addressing the critical shortage of caregivers for the elderly

    Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans, a new study suggests.

    The research, to be published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open, found that participants in cooperatives experienced more respect, control, job support, and compensation than their counterparts in traditional care services. These factors may explain how cooperatives have achieved half the turnover rates of traditional agencies, which are plagued with…

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  • Targeted, killed, burned alive: Journalists in Gaza attacked by Israel | Gaza

    Targeted, killed, burned alive: Journalists in Gaza attacked by Israel | Gaza

    Abed Shaat drifted off to sleep on Sunday night, exhausted after covering Israeli air strikes all day.

    The 33-year-old freelance photographer had returned to a tent in front of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza where he’d been based along with other journalists since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

    Then, they were jolted awake.

    “I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion nearby,” Shaat said. “My colleagues and I immediately rushed out of the tent. [I had] my mobile…

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  • Bashar al-Masri sued in Washington for aiding Hamas

    Bashar al-Masri sued in Washington for aiding Hamas

    Nearly 200 family members of the victims of the October …

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  • Macron, Sisi call for Gaza ceasefire and release of captives

    Macron, Sisi call for Gaza ceasefire and release of captives

    The leaders of France, Egypt, and Jordan discussed efforts to achieve these goals at a meeting in Cairo.

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  • UK lawyers accuse 10 nationals of war crimes in Gaza: What to know

    UK lawyers accuse 10 nationals of war crimes in Gaza: What to know

    A legal team has submitted a 240-page report accusing 10 British nationals of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, while two parliamentarians were denied entry to Israel amid growing tensions over international accountability.

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  • Widespread Raids, Arrests across West Bank ahead of Strike in Support of Gaza

    Widespread Raids, Arrests across West Bank ahead of Strike in Support of Gaza

    Amer Rabea, age 14, was killed by Israeli occupation forces in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via social media)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    Palestinians also mourned the killing of Amer Rabea, age 14, by Israeli occupation forces on Sunday evening.

    Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread raids across the occupied West Bank, resulting in arrests in the early hours of Monday.

    The army also continued to displace residents of the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm for the 58th…

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