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What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia Science

What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia

TDP-43 is a protein found in nearly every human cell. When it misfolds and clumps, it drives ALS, frontotemporal dementia, and possibly cancer — makin...

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How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors Science

How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors

Scientists mapped cancer genetics across nearly 500 cat tumors and found striking overlaps with human cancers, opening new paths for treatments that c...

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How Caffeine Protects the Brain From Dementia Science

How Caffeine Protects the Brain From Dementia

Scientists have identified multiple mechanisms through which caffeine shields the brain from cognitive decline, from blocking adenosine receptors to r...

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What Is ECMO and How Does It Keep People Alive? Health

What Is ECMO and How Does It Keep People Alive?

ECMO — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — is a life-support machine that does the work of the heart and lungs outside the body. Here is how it work...

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Depression Starts With a Cellular Energy Failure Health

Depression Starts With a Cellular Energy Failure

Scientists from the University of Queensland and University of Minnesota have discovered that depression may begin as an energy crisis inside brain an...

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How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch Science

How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch

De novo protein design lets scientists build entirely new proteins that never existed in nature—unlocking potential breakthroughs in medicine, vaccine...

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What Is the Thymus—and Why It Matters for Longevity Health

What Is the Thymus—and Why It Matters for Longevity

Long dismissed as irrelevant after childhood, the thymus gland is now recognized as a key driver of immune health throughout adult life—and new resear...

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What Is Intratumoral Immunotherapy and How Does It Work? Health

What Is Intratumoral Immunotherapy and How Does It Work?

Intratumoral immunotherapy injects immune-activating drugs directly into tumors, converting them into self-made vaccines that can attack cancer throug...

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How Bacterial Meningitis Works—and Why It Kills Fast Health

How Bacterial Meningitis Works—and Why It Kills Fast

Bacterial meningitis is one of medicine's most urgent emergencies—a brain infection that can kill within 24 hours. Here is how the bacteria invade, wh...

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How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine Science

How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine

Gene therapy targets the genetic root cause of disease by adding, silencing, or editing faulty DNA inside a patient's own cells. Here is how it works,...

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How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters Science

How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters

Hair follicles are tiny, highly sophisticated organs that drive every strand on your body. Scientists have now grown fully functional ones in a lab fo...

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What Is Chlorpyrifos and How It Triggers Parkinson's Health

What Is Chlorpyrifos and How It Triggers Parkinson's

Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide still used on food crops worldwide, has been linked to more than double the risk of Parkinson's disease. New research reveal...

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