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How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why Science

How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why

As men age, their blood cells increasingly shed the Y chromosome in a process called mosaic loss of Y (mLOY), which scientists now link to heart disea...

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How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters Health

How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters

Fetal surgery allows doctors to operate on unborn babies inside the womb, treating life-threatening conditions like spina bifida months before birth....

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How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors Science

How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors

Scientists are programming harmless bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce anti-cancer drugs on site. Here's how bacterial cancer therapy works, wh...

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Metastasis is Not Random: Scientists Discover Genetic Code for Cancer Spread Science

Metastasis is Not Random: Scientists Discover Genetic Code for Cancer Spread

Researchers at the University of Geneva have identified gene patterns that govern the spread of cancer and developed an AI tool, MangroveGS, that pred...

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New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial Health

New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial

Merck's experimental oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide slashed LDL cholesterol by up to 60% in a phase 3 trial of nearly 3,000 patients, matching inject...

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How Tissue Engineering Grows New Organs From Scratch Science

How Tissue Engineering Grows New Organs From Scratch

Tissue engineering combines biology, medicine, and engineering to build replacement organs from a patient's own cells, offering hope to millions on tr...

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What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years? Science

What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years?

Sleeper sharks are slow-moving deep-sea predators that rank among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth. Their unique biochemistry, ultra-slow metabo...

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How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why Health

How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why

PCSK9 inhibitors represent a powerful class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that work by preserving the liver's ability to clear LDL from the bloodstrea...

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How NIH Funding Works—and Why It Matters Science

How NIH Funding Works—and Why It Matters

The National Institutes of Health funds nearly $48 billion in medical research annually through a rigorous peer-review grant system. Here is how the p...

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What Is Orthosomnia and How Sleep Trackers Backfire Health

What Is Orthosomnia and How Sleep Trackers Backfire

Orthosomnia is a growing condition where obsessing over sleep tracker data actually worsens sleep quality. Here's how sleep trackers work, why they ca...

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What Is Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites Science

What Is Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites

Hemozoin is a tiny iron crystal that malaria parasites produce to survive inside red blood cells. Understanding how it works has led to life-saving dr...

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Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable Science

Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable

American researchers have used a modified herpes virus to deliver immune cells deep into glioblastoma tumors, significantly improving survival rates f...

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