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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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What Are Quantum Dots and How Do They Work? Technology

What Are Quantum Dots and How Do They Work?

Quantum dots are semiconductor nanocrystals so tiny that the laws of quantum mechanics dictate their color. From QLED televisions to cancer surgery an...

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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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What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine Science

What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine

Chirality—the mirror-image 'handedness' of molecules—is one of chemistry's most consequential properties. It explains a 1960s drug disaster, drives mo...

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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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Oval Orbit Reveals Exotic Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger Science

Oval Orbit Reveals Exotic Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that a neutron star and a black hole spiraled into each other on an elliptical — not circular — orbit, o...

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