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How HIV PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to 6-Month Shots Health

How HIV PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to 6-Month Shots

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has transformed HIV prevention. Here's how it works — from blocking the virus in your bloodstream to the breakthrough...

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How Habit Formation Works in the Brain Health

How Habit Formation Works in the Brain

Around 65% of our daily behaviors run on autopilot — but how does the brain actually turn a deliberate action into an automatic habit? The answer lies...

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How HIV Prevention Drugs Work: From Pills to Injections Health

How HIV Prevention Drugs Work: From Pills to Injections

PrEP medications have transformed HIV prevention from near-certain infection to near-zero risk. Here's how these drugs block the virus—and why a new t...

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What Is Rett Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Rett Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Rett syndrome is a rare neurological disorder caused by mutations in the MECP2 gene that almost exclusively affects girls, stripping away language, mo...

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What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Dravet syndrome is a rare, catastrophic form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, resists most standard medications, and is caused by a single faulty g...

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How PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to Twice-Yearly Shots Health

How PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to Twice-Yearly Shots

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, has transformed HIV prevention. A new twice-yearly injectable drug called lenacapavir works by targeting the virus'...

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Marine Fungus Found to Kill Toxic Red Tide Algae Science

Marine Fungus Found to Kill Toxic Red Tide Algae

Scientists have identified a new marine fungus, Algophthora mediterranea, that parasitizes and destroys toxic algae responsible for harmful coastal bl...

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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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