Medical Research

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How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming Science

How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming

Climate attribution science uses weather data and computer models to determine whether climate change made a specific extreme weather event more likel...

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How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure Science

How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure

Scientists have identified a brainstem region called the lateral parafacial area that drives high blood pressure by constricting blood vessels, openin...

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How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light Science

How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light

Photopharmacology embeds tiny molecular switches into drugs so doctors can turn them on or off with light, targeting treatment to exact body locations...

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Medical Cannabis: Ineffective Against Anxiety and Depression Science

Medical Cannabis: Ineffective Against Anxiety and Depression

The largest systematic review ever conducted, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, concludes that medical cannabis is not effective in treating anxiety...

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Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice Health

Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice

Heidelberg University neurobiologists identified a toxic protein complex driving Alzheimer's progression and used a novel compound to disrupt it in mi...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of any major cancer, largely because it hides deep in the body, produces no early symptoms, and resists...

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How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw

Liquid biopsies analyze tiny fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to detect cancer, guide treatmen...

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How Sleep Brain Waves Predict Dementia Risk Science

How Sleep Brain Waves Predict Dementia Risk

Scientists can now estimate 'brain age' from electrical patterns recorded during sleep, and a gap between brain age and actual age may signal dementia...

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Ozempic Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Major Study Shows Health

Ozempic Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Major Study Shows

A large Swedish study of nearly 95,000 patients published in The Lancet Psychiatry has confirmed that semaglutide (Ozempic) reduces the risk of worsen...

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Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors Health

Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors

Scientists are programming gut-friendly bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce cancer-fighting drugs on-site, showing dramatic results in mice and...

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How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite Science

How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite

Mosquitoes use a sophisticated multi-step sensory system—combining CO₂ detection, body odor, visual cues, infrared radiation, and taste—to locate and...

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How Smart Bandages Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Smart Bandages Work—and Why They Matter

Smart bandages use embedded sensors, wireless electronics, and on-demand drug delivery to monitor wounds in real time and accelerate healing—a leap be...

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