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A comprehensive meta-analysis of 17 studies across 11 countries over 44 years has resoundingly supported the growing evidence that sharing your childhood home with a cat is connected to a significant increase in risk of developing schizophrenia.Continu… Continue reading Purr-fect storm: House cats linked to 2x risk of schizophrenia
Researchers have used a machine-learning model to analyze blood proteins to estimate the biological, as opposed to the chronological, age of bodily organs. It’s a way of predicting an apparently healthy person’s risk of developing conditions like heart… Continue reading Biomarkers enable detection of rapidly aging organs & disease risk
A few weeks ago, I found myself the victim of flights from hell. My first flight was cancelled, leaving me driving home late at night, only to wake again …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Could Rating Airlines Stop Flights From Spreading Diseases?
A new study has found that TLR7, a protein that normally triggers our immune system to defend against certain viruses, plays a pivotal role in exacerbating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. The unexpected discovery may lead to new therapeu… Continue reading Protein discovery raises prospect of treatment for COPD
A new study has found that TLR7, a protein that normally triggers our immune system to defend against certain viruses, plays a pivotal role in exacerbating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. The unexpected discovery may lead to new therapeu… Continue reading Protein discovery raises prospect of treatment for COPD
In what sounds a little like the opening scenes from a sci-fi horror film, a team of scientists has taken seven-day-old monkey embryo stem cells and injected them into an unrelated four-to-five-day embryo from the same species, which was then injected … Continue reading The first true chimeric monkey is born ‘glowing’ with two sets of DNA
Anyone who has been on the planet for the last four years will know how viruses that evolve to jump across species, given the right conditions, can rapidly become a serious global crisis. While COVID-19 was a rare ‘perfect storm’ for a zoonotic virus t… Continue reading 12 times more people will die from zoonotic viruses by 2050, study says
With more than 1,000 different bacterial species, the gut microbiome is now thought of by many researchers to be the key to unlocking disease-fighting superpowers. It’s already been linked to cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and even memory and per… Continue reading Study takes a major step towards disease-fighting microbiome therapies
Researchers have identified cell-specific proteins in eye fluid and used AI to determine which proteins accelerated aging in particular diseases. Understanding the cellular origin of these disease-driving proteins may lead to precision treatments and m… Continue reading Technique that determines ‘eye age’ could lead to precision treatments
The world may be quickly forgetting about COVID-19, but there are signs the next pandemic is already cooking up – bird flu. Scientists have now demonstrated that genetically engineering chickens can reduce their chances of catching and spreading the di… Continue reading Genetically engineered chickens could help slow spread of bird flu