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Your biological age within a drop of your blood
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Your biological age within a drop of your blood

When is aging occurring? Why do I look younger/older than my age? What is my biological age? These are just a few questions that can be answered using a...

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Treating Alzheimer's disease with a known anticoagulant: insights from lab mice
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Treating Alzheimer's disease with a known anticoagulant: insights from lab mice

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with vascular alterations such as reduced brain blood flow. Treatment with a direct oral anticoagulant...

4 min read5,096 views
The life-span of SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric patients
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The life-span of SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric patients

Symptomatic COVID-19 cases in children are uncommon and their clinical course is relatively mild. In particular, infected children displayed non-specific lung...

4 min read6,171 views
Powering up the emergency response to infections
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Powering up the emergency response to infections

All blood cells are made in the bone marrow with an estimated production of 1 million white cells per second. In response to infection white cell production...

3 min read5,684 views
Taking cardiac fibrosis down with engineered immune cells
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Taking cardiac fibrosis down with engineered immune cells

In many types of heart disease, cardiac tissue exhibits excessive extracellular matrix deposition, and fibrosis. This increases the stiffness of the heart,...

4 min read4,914 views
How calluses boost barefoot walking
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How calluses boost barefoot walking

Before footwear, calluses served as the primary protection for our feet. To understand how our species walks safely without shoes, we investigated foot skin...

4 min read9,168 views
Did the Justinianic Plague kill millions of people in antiquity?
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Did the Justinianic Plague kill millions of people in antiquity?

A plague pandemic reached the Roman Empire in the sixth century. Did it contribute to its fall? An interdisciplinary methodological approach provides new...

4 min read6,736 views
The Face Mask Dilemma: to wear or not to wear, that is the question
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The Face Mask Dilemma: to wear or not to wear, that is the question

COVID-19 is raging across the world. Lacking available treatments, policymakers are looking for efficient public health measures that could turn the tide. The...

4 min read8,168 views
English and Welsh hospital patients in the Lyme-light
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English and Welsh hospital patients in the Lyme-light

A description of the socio-demographic characteristics of hospital admissions for Lyme disease. Cases were predominately female, and in children or retirement...

4 min read5,419 views
Family history and personal health behind memory’s impairments
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Family history and personal health behind memory’s impairments

Adults with a first-degree relative with Alzheimer's disease perform more poorly on online paired-learning tasks than adults without such a family history....

4 min read7,130 views