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What Is Acromegaly and Why It's Hard to Diagnose Health

What Is Acromegaly and Why It's Hard to Diagnose

Acromegaly is a rare hormonal disorder caused by excess growth hormone in adults. It progresses slowly over years, often going undiagnosed for half a...

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How C. difficile Infections Work and Why They Recur Health

How C. difficile Infections Work and Why They Recur

C. difficile is a spore-forming bacterium that hijacks the gut after antibiotics wipe out protective bacteria. Here's how it works, why it keeps comin...

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Why Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Hard to Treat Health

Why Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Hard to Treat

Triple-negative breast cancer lacks the three receptors targeted by most breast cancer drugs, making it harder to treat than other subtypes — but new...

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How DNA Origami Vaccines Work and Why They Matter Health

How DNA Origami Vaccines Work and Why They Matter

Scientists have engineered nanoscale vaccine particles by folding DNA into precise 3D shapes — a platform that rivals mRNA shots while requiring no ul...

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How THC Creates False Memories in the Brain Health

How THC Creates False Memories in the Brain

Cannabis doesn't just blur memories—it can manufacture vivid recollections of things that never happened. Here is the neuroscience behind how THC hija...

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Omega-3s and Dialysis: 43% Reduction in Cardiovascular Events Health

Omega-3s and Dialysis: 43% Reduction in Cardiovascular Events

A large randomized clinical trial, the PISCES study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates that four grams of fish oil per da...

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Czech Scientists Uncover Whooping Cough Secret in Science Science

Czech Scientists Uncover Whooping Cough Secret in Science

Scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from California, have described how the whooping cough bacterium uses...

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Epilepsy Drug Cuts Sleep Apnea by 47% in Trial Health

Epilepsy Drug Cuts Sleep Apnea by 47% in Trial

A major European phase 2 trial found that sulthiame, an existing epilepsy medication, reduced breathing interruptions in moderate-to-severe sleep apne...

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How Cocaine Rewires the Brain—and Why Quitting Is Hard Health

How Cocaine Rewires the Brain—and Why Quitting Is Hard

Cocaine addiction is not a moral failure but a biological one. Scientists now understand in detail how the drug hijacks the brain's reward circuitry,...

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What Is Rubisco and Why Scientists Want to Fix It Science

What Is Rubisco and Why Scientists Want to Fix It

Rubisco is the most abundant protein on Earth and the engine of all plant life—yet it is surprisingly inefficient. Understanding why scientists are ra...

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How Antibody-Drug Conjugates Target Cancer Cells Health

How Antibody-Drug Conjugates Target Cancer Cells

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are a new class of cancer drug that act like precision-guided missiles — delivering toxic chemotherapy directly inside...

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What Is a Nuclear Metabolic Fingerprint? Science

What Is a Nuclear Metabolic Fingerprint?

Scientists have discovered that hundreds of metabolic enzymes reside directly on human DNA inside the cell nucleus, creating unique "nuclear metabolic...

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