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Cells that fight pathogens might also speed up human ‘inflammaging’

Mitch Leslie | 
Our T cells let us down as we age, becoming weaker pathogen fighters. This decline helps explain why elderly people ...
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Obesity gene? Suppressing this variant could be key to weight loss

Ingrid Spilde | 
More than five years ago, a group of researchers from Norway and several other countries found an important clue in ...
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Ultimate fitness hack: Imagine being able to build muscles with a gene therapy

Vanessa Bates Ramirez | 
Trying to hack fitness is a multi-million-dollar industry; we’ve all seen at least one ad featuring a purported miracle product ...
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Artificial lungs grown in ‘hijacked’ mouse embryo could pave way for human transplants

Shelly Fan | 
Vaping aside, as dangerous air quality becomes increasingly prevalent in cities around the globe, the risk of serious lung disease ...
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‘Regulatory Wild West? DNA startups claim they can assess sexual preferences, depression risk, longevity and drinking proclivity

Dan Robitzski | 
Genomelink is just one of a growing number of shady DNA testing startups now operating in the regulatory Wild West ...
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Does the keto diet offer protection against the flu?

Abby Olena | 
Mice fed a ketogenic diet—in which 90 percent of calories come from fat and less than 1 percent from carbohydrates—were ...
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Animals enhanced with human brain cells—and robust levels of consciousness—create new ethical dilemmas

George Dvorsky | 
Neuroscientist Isaac Chen from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, along with his colleagues, has written ...
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‘Virus really has no chance’: Protein-suppressing treatment could stop common cold in its tracks

James Gallagher | 
A team at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, found one of the components which the viruses ...
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‘Artificial’ memory and identity’: Scientists create memories ‘indistinguishable’ from natural ones—in mice

Robert Martone | 
Experience and memory are inexorably linked, or at least they seemed to be before a recent report on the formation of completely ...
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We can cure Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, glioblastoma in mice. Why not humans?

Sharon Begley | 
Lab mice endure a lot for science, but there’s often one (temporary) compensation: near-miraculous recovery from diseases that kill people ...
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Exercise creates a ‘unique microbiome’ in our guts. We don’t know why.

Ashley Yeager | 
Teaming up with microbiologists and toxicologists from Rutgers and a pathologist from Oklahoma City, [researcher Sara] Campbell designed an experiment ...
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Which is more important to the gut microbiome? Genetics or environment?

Nicoletta Lanese | 
Genetics hold far more sway over the mouse microbiome than transient environmental exposures, researchers reported July 26 in Applied and ...
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‘Found in Translation’: Computer models could help us understand which mice studies matter for human medicine

Kimberly McCoy | 
Machine learning technology could help researchers determine what mouse data are useful when designing human clinical trials ...
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