Women who start their period later, go through menopause earlier or have a hysterectomy may have a greater risk of…
‘Master pacemaker’ for biological clocks identified
What makes a biological clock tick? According to a new study the surprising answer lies with a gene typically associated…
Offspring of older mothers are more responsive to aging interventions
Maternal age affects how well offspring respond to dietary interventions that are known to increase lifespan, scientists report in a…
New potential therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer discovered
Cancer cells demand enormous amounts of molecular ‘food’ to survive and grow, and a new study may have identified a…
Social media has remarkably small impact on Americans’ beliefs, research finds
Social media had only a small influence on how much people believed falsehoods about candidates and issues in the last…
Study of female weightlifters crushes stereotype
A new study shows that elite women weightlifters have the same amount, and in some cases more, of the muscle…
Low-dose radiation therapy improves delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles to brain tumors
Radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas, raising the possibility of using both growth-factor-targeted and immune-system-based…
Wastewater reveals the levels of antibiotic resistance in a region
A comparison of seven European countries shows that the amount of antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater reflects the prevalence of…
Artificial intelligence can predict premature death, study finds
Computers which are capable of teaching themselves to predict premature death could greatly improve preventative healthcare in the future, a…
‘Druggable’ mechanism of tau protein pathology discovered
Researchers have uncovered a ‘druggable’ mechanism of pathological tau protein aggregation — a significant advance toward finding an effective treatment…