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Researchers give more insight into significance of sleep, intricacy of brain

A group of academics from the arts and sciences came up with a theory that may account for the complexity of the brain as well as the importance of sleep. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Blood: The Science, Medicine and Mythology of Menstruation by Dr Jen Gunter – why periods are ‘a muddled burden’

The outspoken Canadian gynaecologist’s compelling scientific study cuts through misinformation, myth and worse with clarity and wit in this study of the menstrual cycle

The Guardian - UK

COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1: Number of cases crosses 1,000 mark

The number of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 cases in India surpasses 1,000, with 16 states and UTs affected.

The Hindu

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How Life Works by Philip Ball review – the magic of biology

An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life

The Guardian - UK

Whole-genome sequencing data ‘can transform cancer care with tailored therapy’

Combining clinical and genomic data creates a key resource for clinicians to better predict outcomes and tailor cancer treatments, researchers say.

The Independent UK

Graham Pearson obituary

Other lives: Civil servant with the Ministry of Defence who later joined the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University

The Guardian - UK

Scientists solve the age-old mystery of why urine is yellow

A topic that has been long debated has finally been put to bed

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Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.

The Conversation

How gut bacteria breathe without oxygen

The tiny microbes inside us exist in a fermenting soup and the drugs they produce to survive can alter our bodies

Salon

The connection between sleep and weight

"Regular circadian rhythms (our eating and sleeping times) help to maintain normal body functions"

Salon

India registered 9.3 lakh cancer deaths, second highest in Asia: LANCET study

India registered about 12 lakh new cancer cases and 9.3 lakh deaths in 2019, becoming the second highest contributor to the disease burden in Asia for that year, according to a new study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal.

The Hindu

Epidemiologist Recommends Doing These 5 Things To Extend Your Lifespan And Increase Your Health

25% of our longevity is determined by our genes; the rest is seemingly determined by what we do. The post Epidemiologist Recommends Doing These 5 Things To Extend Your Lifespan And Increase Your Health first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Study finds how brain cells increases hopes for fertility treatments

A latest research has shown how a specific type of neuron in the brain influences the release of hormones that control ovarian function in females. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Researchers find new uses of artificial DNA

There are just four letters in the genetic alphabet, which stand for the four nucleotides, which are the molecules that make up all DNA. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Human intelligence: how cognitive circuitry, rather than brain size, drove its evolution

Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals. Most get by on tiny brains, and don’t seem to miss the extra brain cells

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Researchers identify key to epithelial cell growth

Australian scientists have identified a novel way for epithelial cells, which form layers in organs such as the skin and stomach, to adhere to one another and perceive growth signals at these attachments, allowing them to produce tissues of the proper size and shape. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Guardian - UK

Human tears contain substance that eases aggression, says study

Sniffing emotional tears from women can cut male aggression by more than 40% and cause changes in brain

Inverse

The 12 Most Mind-Blowing Science Breakthroughs of 2023

These breakthroughs are no-doubt-about-it advances that crucially improved our medical, technological, or astronomical understanding.

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Lessons from a Dog: Scott Cochrane Employs Innovative Approach to Accelerate Businesses' Growth

Author John Lubbock once said, "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books." This statement rings true, as proven by the broadening influence of bioinspired design in formulating tangible…

The Guardian - US

Scientists are on the verge of a male birth-control pill. Will men take it?

A male contraceptive is almost here – and it’ll be another test of whether heterosexual men are actually willing to share the responsibilities of adult life

The Hindu

mRNA, easy to customise, is the next frontier for personalised medicine

Because it is so easy to change the mRNA recipes, cancer vaccines can be part of a personalized medicine plan where doctors sample a patient’s tumour, sequence key genes and adjust the mRNA treatment to include recipes specific to that patient’s cancer. Clinical trials using this personalized approach for pancreatic…

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Researchers give more insight into how new genes arise from nothing

The DNA of living species encode their complexity, but where do these genes come from? The University of Helsinki researchers answered long-standing problems about the development of small regulatory genes and described a way for generating their DNA palindromes. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Eczema breakthrough as unlikely cure for itch is found

One in five children suffer from eczema and one in 10 adults

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Here is why chemotherapy becomes less effective, finds study

According to two research from UCL and Yale, chemotherapy becomes less effective when healthy">healthy cells encourage cancer cells to grow more slowly. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

The era of CRISPR therapeutics is here – what can we expect? | Explained

Two geneticists explain the groundbreaking CRISPR-based therapies approved for sickle-cell disease and β-thalassaemia, and other genetic therapeutics in development, including base-editing and prime-editing.

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