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Making connections: A three-dimensional visualization of musculoskeletal development

The musculoskeletal system plays an indispensable role in supporting our life, as it performs a variety of essential functions — providing structural support, enabling movement such as walking and lifting, protecting internal organs, maintaining posture, generating heat through muscle activity, and coordinating with the nervous system. One of the many complexities of this system lies in how its components — tendons, ligaments and cartilage — establish precise connections during embryonic…

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May 14, 2025
Postpartum depression and bonding: Long-term effects on school-age children

Researchers show a strong association between postpartum depression, early mother-to-infant bonding, and children’s emotional and behavioral development.

Postpartum maternal mental health and mother-to-infant bonding are well-established as critical factors in a child’s psychosocial development. However, few studies have explored the combined impact of postpartum maternal depression and early bonding experiences on emotional and behavioral difficulties during middle childhood. A new study…

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May 14, 2025
A downside of taurine: It drives leukemia growth

A new scientific study identified taurine, which is made naturally in the body and consumed through some foods, as a key regulator of myeloid cancers such as leukemia, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.

The preclinical research shows that scientists are a step closer to finding new ways to target leukemia, which is one of the most aggressive blood cancers. The Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators at the University of Rochester were able to block the growth of leukemia in…

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May 14, 2025
Scientists discover new way the brain learns

Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at UCL have discovered that the brain uses a dual system for learning through trial and error. This is the first time a second learning system has been identified, which could help explain how habits are formed and provide a scientific basis for new strategies to address conditions related to habitual learning, such as addictions and compulsions. Published today in Nature, the study in mice could also have implications for developing…

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May 14, 2025
‘We discussed the world’: US president, emir of Qatar speak in Doha | Russia-Ukraine war

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After a signing trade and defence deals with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, US President Donald Trump told media in Doha that the two had also discussed the Russia-Ukraine war and Iran’s nuclear programme.

Published On 14 May 2025

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May 14, 2025
UK defends arms sales to Israel amid genocide as high court case opens – Middle East Monitor

The UK government has insisted there is “no evidence” of genocide in Gaza as it faces a legal challenge over its continued involvement in the F-35 fighter jet programme, parts of which are said to be used by Israel in its onslaught on the besieged Palestinian enclave. Government lawyers made the claims at the opening of a high court case brought by Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and the Global Legal Action Network, with support from Amnesty…

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May 14, 2025
Pope Leo says he will make ‘every effort’ for world peace – Middle East Monitor

Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged today to make “every effort” for peace and offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying war was “never inevitable”, Reuters reports.

Leo, who was elected last week to succeed the late Pope Francis, has made repeated calls for peace in the early days of his papacy. His first words to crowds in St Peter’s Square were “Peace be with all you”.

He returned to…

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May 14, 2025
‘End Gaza War’ – Saudi Arabia Urges ‘Comprehensive Solution to Palestinian Issue’

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Riyadh was seeking to work with the US to end the war in Gaza. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

The US President concluded a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia before heading to Qatar on Wednesday.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that Riyadh was seeking to work with the United States and other Gulf states to “de-escalate” the situation in the Middle East and “end the war in Gaza.”

“We are aware…

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May 14, 2025
Did the US flinch first in tariff war with China? | Trade War News

On Monday, the United States and China reached an agreement to slash sky-high tariffs for 90 days. Though both sides claimed they could withstand a long trade war, they reached a truce quicker than many analysts expected.

The breakthrough marked a dramatic ratcheting down of trade tensions following the tariff war launched by US President Donald Trump during his “liberation day” announcement on April 2.

Trump initially unveiled so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries before

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May 14, 2025
Gaza in the Himalayas: Modi’s Fantasy War and the Kashmir Proving Ground

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian President Narendra Modi. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

By Junaid S. Ahmad

What unfolded in Kashmir is not an isolated Indian enterprise. It is a colonial rerun. It is the adaptation of Zionism’s most brutal chapter for Hindutva’s present ambition.

Over the past week, the world did not witness counterterrorism—it witnessed bloodlust masquerading as statecraft. On April 22, a deadly attack in Pahalgam claimed the lives of 26…

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May 14, 2025