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LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness Health

LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness

Scientists at UCL have identified the protein LRG1 as the earliest trigger of diabetic retinopathy, constricting retinal blood vessels before any visi...

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Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History Science

Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History

Scientists have discovered Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Black Death — in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the Ural Mountains, th...

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How Fatty Liver Disease Works—and Why It's So Common Health

How Fatty Liver Disease Works—and Why It's So Common

Once overlooked, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) now affects roughly one in three adults worldwide. Here's how fat si...

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What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Causes Blindness Health

What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Causes Blindness

Diabetic retinopathy is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness in working-age adults. Here's how high blood sugar silently destroys the ey...

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How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer

CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how this revolutionary treatment works, which cancers it...

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What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why It's So Common Health

What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why It's So Common

Fatty liver disease — now officially called MASLD — affects nearly 40% of the global population, yet most people don't know they have it. Here's how i...

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What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision Health

What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults worldwide. Here is how high blood sugar silently destroys the eye's light...

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What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health Science

What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health

The exposome captures every environmental exposure a person encounters from conception to death — and scientists now believe it explains far more abou...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 90% of patients within five years of diagnosis. Here is why this disease is so uniquely difficult to detect, fight,...

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How Remote Robotic Surgery Works and Why It Matters Health

How Remote Robotic Surgery Works and Why It Matters

Telesurgery lets a surgeon operate on a patient thousands of kilometres away using robotic arms, fibre-optic links, and haptic feedback. Here is how t...

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How Telesurgery Works: Operating From Miles Away Health

How Telesurgery Works: Operating From Miles Away

Telesurgery lets surgeons operate on patients thousands of miles away using robotic arms and fiber-optic connections. Here's the science and technolog...

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Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Yet Science

Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Yet

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at a distance of 8.5 billion light-years — the most distant "jellyfish galaxy...

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