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The animal kingdom has no shortage of weird and wonderful surprises, and this year biologists gave us some real treats to talk about at the dinner table. All walks of life, from microscopic bacteria to huge cetaceans have remarkable, varied adaptations… Continue reading All-seeing skin, detachable butts and zombies: Animal oddities of 2023
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
The fact that eating less meat improves cardiovascular health is not a new revelation, but previous studies supporting this have often been hampered by confounding factors such as genetics, background and lifestyle. Now, scientists have removed many of… Continue reading Rare study on identical twins confirms vegan diet’s broad health boost
Women and girls in industrial countries may have ready access to inexpensive menstrual pads, but such is not always the case in developing nations. That may soon change, however, thanks to the sisal plant.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, Lifest… Continue reading Plant-fiber menstrual pads may help end “period poverty”
Managing diabetes usually involves regular shots of insulin or other drugs, but soon patients might only need to inject themselves a few times a year. Stanford has developed a hydrogel-based delivery system that slowly releases drugs over months to con… Continue reading Slow-release diabetes drugs could cut shots from daily to 3 times a year
Patrick Star of SpongeBob SquarePants fame had already stretched the boundaries of anatomical correctness, yet it turns out that what all of us think about the bodily composition of a sea star is most likely wrong, thanks to new genetic work that sugge… Continue reading Mostly armless: A starfish is one big “head crawling along the seafloor”
Anyone who’s been to karaoke night at a bar knows just how dramatically altered our voices get after throwing back a few drinks. Scientists have now shown that analyzing these vocal changes is a surprisingly good way to see just how drunk we are.Contin… Continue reading Your smartphone could tell how drunk you are by listening to you talk
A new study into using ketamine to treat depression has yielded surprising results. Despite the unique way in which the researchers ensured the trial was ‘blind’, those who received a placebo had the same improvement in symptom severity as those admini… Continue reading Blind ketamine study yields surprising placebo effect
Using synchronous video taken with a pair of smartphones, scientists have created an open-source motion-capture app that gathers human movement data, with rapid analysis via an artificial intelligence system, to then be used in clinical settings for re… Continue reading App rapidly gathers sophisticated movement data, at 1% of the usual cost
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