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How PET Scans Work and Why They Detect Cancer Early Health

How PET Scans Work and Why They Detect Cancer Early

PET scans use radioactive sugar tracers and gamma-ray detection to map metabolic activity inside the body, revealing tumors long before symptoms appea...

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How Your Gut's Mucus Layer Defends Against Bacteria Health

How Your Gut's Mucus Layer Defends Against Bacteria

A thin coat of mucus lining your intestines is one of the body's most important — and least understood — defenses. Here's how it works, what it keeps...

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How Melatonin Works—and Is It Safe for Kids? Health

How Melatonin Works—and Is It Safe for Kids?

Melatonin supplements have become one of the most popular sleep aids for children, but scientists warn that enthusiasm is outpacing the evidence. Here...

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What Is Prediabetes and Why Reversing It Matters Health

What Is Prediabetes and Why Reversing It Matters

More than 630 million adults worldwide have prediabetes — and most don't know it. Here's what the condition is, how it develops, and why new research...

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How Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Works Health

How Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Works

For the first time, a country has approved a stem cell treatment that replaces lost dopamine neurons in Parkinson's patients. Here's how the science w...

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Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging Science

Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids that selectively destroy senescent cells via ferropt...

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Depression Starts in the Mitochondria, Study Finds Health

Depression Starts in the Mitochondria, Study Finds

Researchers from the University of Queensland and Minnesota have found that young adults with major depressive disorder show a distinctive pattern of...

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How Genetics Determines How Long You Live Health

How Genetics Determines How Long You Live

New research shows genes account for roughly half of human lifespan variation—far more than scientists believed. Here is what the science of longevity...

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How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly Health

How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly

Metastasis — the spread of cancer from its original site to distant organs — accounts for more than 90% of cancer deaths. Here is how the process work...

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How Hospital Pharmacy Robots Work—and Why They Matter Health

How Hospital Pharmacy Robots Work—and Why They Matter

Pharmacy robots now fill prescriptions, dispense medications, and deliver drugs across hospital floors with 99.98% accuracy—slashing the errors that k...

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What Is Berberine and How Does It Work? Health

What Is Berberine and How Does It Work?

Berberine is an ancient plant compound that went viral as 'nature's Ozempic,' but the science tells a more nuanced story. Here's what it is, how it wo...

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How Severe COVID and Flu Infections Raise Lung Cancer Risk Health

How Severe COVID and Flu Infections Raise Lung Cancer Risk

New research published in Cell reveals that severe respiratory viral infections reprogram immune cells in the lungs, creating a long-lasting pro-tumor...

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