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Gut bacteria from thin people fails to help obese people lose weight in study

Tina Saey | Science News | 
Changing your gut microbes may not help you lose belly fat. In a preliminary study, obese people got either capsules ...
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PTSD and other psychological traumas may increase risk of cardiovascular disease

Maanvi Singh | Science News | 
People coping with psychological trauma have a heightened risk of developing cardiovascular disease, a large-scale study finds. Researchers used national ...
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Can genetics predict a baby’s risk of becoming an obese adult?

Tina Saey | Science News | 
There’s a new way to predict whether a baby will grow into an obese adult. Combining the effect of more ...
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Meet 5 RNA ‘movers and shakers’ including one that may protect against Alzheimer’s

Tina Saey | Science News | 
RNAs, composed of strings of genetic letters called nucleotides, are best known for ferrying instructions from the genes in our ...
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How mass shootings and other traumas could impact mental health, suicide risk

Sujata Gupta | Science News | 
Two teenagers who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., took their own lives ...
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Why Nobel laureate David Baltimore doesn’t support moratorium on CRISPR babies

David Baltimore, Tina Saey | Science News | 
Some scientists have recently proposed a temporary moratorium on editing that would result in babies that carry heritable changes. … Science ...
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Viewpoint: Esketamine promises to boost depression treatments—but we don’t know enough about long-term effects

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
With great fanfare, a new antidepressant entered the U.S. market in March [2019], the first fundamentally new medicine for depression ...
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How does our immune system distinguish between friendly gut bacteria and deadly pathogens?

Jeremy Rehm | Science News | 
Observations in mice show that certain filamentous microbes use a hooklike appendage to send messages that researchers believe are aimed ...
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Crime scene conundrum: Your DNA can wind up on something you never even touched

Tina Saey | Science News | 
A 10-second handshake could transfer a person’s DNA to an object that the person never touched. In handshaking experiments, people ...
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‘Humble beginnings’: Newly discovered T. rex ancestor was quite small

Jeremy Rehm | Science News | 
A new dinosaur shows that even Tyrannosaurus rex had humble beginnings. Dubbed Moros intrepidus, or “the harbinger of doom,” the new species is one of ...
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Brain implants could soon join fight against severe depression

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
With powerful computational methods, scientists have recently zeroed in on some key features of depressed brains. Those hallmarks include certain ...
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Early diagnosis of children with anxiety, depression key to better treatment

Sujata Gupta | Science News | 
Researchers wanted to see if the movements during a scary situation differed between children diagnosed with depression or anxiety and ...
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Does gum disease causes Alzheimer’s? We are a long way from an answer, researcher says

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Do you floss regularly? A study published January 23 in Science Advances — and the news stories that it inspired — might ...
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Sleep deprived brains might be more susceptible to Alzheimer’s

Aimee Cunningham | Science News | 
A sleep-deprived brain is awash in excess amounts of not one but two proteins whose bad behavior is implicated in ...
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Inside the cave where Neanderthals and Denisovans may have shared a home

Bruce Bower | Science News | 
Mysterious ancient hominids known as Denisovans and their evolutionary cousins, Neandertals, frequented a southern Siberian cave starting a surprisingly long ...
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Rodent-targeting gene drive could be delivered through CRISPR

Tina Saey | Science News | 
Scientists are getting closer to creating a genetic pest-control measure against rodents. Female mice engineered to carry a genetic cut-and-paste machine ...
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Peering into the brain: New technology allows unprecedented access to brain cells

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
By mixing and matching powerful advances in microscopy and cell biology, researchers have imaged intricate details of individual nerve cells ...
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Whether you prefer coffee or tea may depend on your DNA

Tina Saey | Science News | 
Whether people prefer coffee or tea may boil down to a matter of taste genetics. People with a version of ...
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Can loneliness and isolation damage the brain?

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Mice yanked out of their community and held in solitary isolation show signs of brain damage. After a month of ...
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Using virtual reality to treat social anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorders

Maria Temming | Science News | 
Researchers have been developing virtual reality systems that help people overcome specific phobias since the 1990s. VR therapy has since ...
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Good news for young pot-muddled brains. Study shows impairment is reversible

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Taking a monthlong break from pot helps clear away young people’s memory fog, a small study suggests. The results show ...
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Appendix removal reduces risk of Parkinson’s disease, study suggests

Aimee Cunningham | Science News | 
The appendix, a once-dismissed organ now known to play a role in the immune system, may contribute to a person’s ...
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Speeding up drug research through ‘visionary’ cryptographic crowdsourcing

Maria Temming | Science News | 
A new cryptographic system could allow pharmaceutical companies and academic labs to work together to develop new medications more quickly ...
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‘There is no gay gene’: But study suggests genetics may play role in choosing same sex partner

Tina Saey | Science News | 
In a large study of more than 490,000 men and women in the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden, researchers ...
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Mystery of the mind: How autism got its start in the developing brain

Kevin Pelphrey, Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Here are some of the key points [neuroscientist Kevin] Pelphrey made on how autism may get its start in the ...
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Plant domestication takes decades. With CRISPR it could take two years

Tina Hesman Saey | Science News | 
Gene editing can speed up plant domestication, taming wild vines, bushes and grasses and turning them into new crops. Editing ...
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How do you make a lab-grown burger?

Susan Milius | Science News | 
In July, [the alternative-meat] movement passed a new milestone: In a packed auditorium in suburban Maryland, the FDA convened the ...
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Artificial intelligence could predict where earthquake aftershocks will strike

Carolyn Gramling | Science News | 
A new artificial intelligence is turning its big brain to mapping earthquake aftershocks. Scientists trained an artificial neural network to ...
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