Health & Medicine
Nutritional Psychiatry: Food Is Medicine
Explaining The Reciprocity Between Your Brain and Your Belly For the past decade, the scientific community has increased its focus on mental health disorders including anxiety, depression,
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Biosimilars: A New Era in Biologic Therapy
Biologics have transformed the management of chronic and life-threatening diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic conditions. However, their complexity, high production costs, and limited affordability continue to challenge healthcare systems worldwide.
Science & Research
How AI Learned to Hunt Superbugs in a Digital Haystack
Antibiotic resistance could kill 10 million annually by 2050. Discover how AI found Halicin, a molecule that kills superbugs humans couldn't defeat.
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Promising Latest Treatment That Could Calm Anxiety for Millions of Americans
Today, generalized anxiety disorder is affecting millions of Americans. The disorder usually traps the sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation in a way that even standard treatments cannot relieve completely. UCSF neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchell, PhD, is testing a surprising brand-new approach that can ease symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder by reshaping how the brain thinks and feels.
Science & Research
How Scientists Are Discovering the Next Generation of Tuberculosis Drugs
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, claiming over a million lives each year. TB is the deadliest infectious disease known today, claiming more lives than COVID-19. TB is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB spreads through the air when infected people breathe, cough, sneeze,
Science & Research
How Science Writing Helps Bridge the Gap Between Research and the Public
Science writing simplifies complex research, making scientific discoveries accessible, trustworthy, and relevant to the public while reducing misinformation.
Health & Medicine
Nourishing Wounds: How Micronutrients Drive Healing
Wound healing is a complex and dynamic biological process that occurs through four overlapping phases: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and maturation. To repair tissue damage, the body works intensively, thereby significantly increasing cellular metabolic demands.
Health & Medicine
mRNA Vaccines in Modern Therapeutics
Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines represent one of the most significant scientific advances in modern therapeutics. Unlike conventional vaccines that use weakened or inactivated pathogens, mRNA vaccines deliver genetic instructions that enable host cells to synthesize a target antigen and stimulate an immune response.
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Particle Size Matters: The Rule That Determines Where Medicine Lands in Your Lungs
Too big, it hits your throat. Too small, you exhale it. The sweet spot delivers drugs exactly where they're needed.
Health & Medicine
Understanding the Role of Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinsons Disease
Stem cell therapy research is a promising area of interest for a number of scientists working to understand Parkinson’s disease and develop treatments for it. Read below to learn more about the advancements of stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s.
Science & Research
Microbiome Forensics: Using Human Associated Microbes for the Individual and Contact Identification
Traditionally, Forensic Science relies on Human DNA for contact evidence and individual identification, but limitation arises when the blood cells obtained from the crime scene are degraded or not.
Science & Research
Why Physical Laws Hold Locally but Become Ambiguous Across Regimes
Physical quantities and laws emerge from the geometry, coherence, and flow of relational fields. A central idea is relational closure: high-coherence domains form effectively closed regions where stable invariants can persist.
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One Gene Down, Brain Function Affected: Insights into Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Haploinsufficient genes show how losing one gene copy can affect brain development, increasing risk for neurodevelopmental disorders and behaviour changes.
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The Brain’s Ability to Change and Its Role in Depression
Depression has affected humans for hundreds of years. Symptoms can include persistent feelings of sadness, sleep disturbances, anxiety, and a loss of interest in social activities. Science doesn’t yet fully understand the causes and effects, but here’s what we do know: the brain is a powerful organ, and it is capable of change. Made up of a wide network of connections, it relies on chemicals, electrical impulses, and billions of neurons. Let’s explore how brain science
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CEDNIK Syndrome: how SNAP29 gene mutation brought the never sleeping cellular city to a halt.
Discover how the SNAP29 gene guides cellular traffic, and how its mutation leads to CEDNIK syndrome, affecting brain, nerves, and skin.
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Scanxiety: What is it and how to cope with it?
Many times, individuals feel fearful or extremely worried about cancer testing. The regular tests and scans that patients living with any cancer diagnosis have to undergo, to monitor their condition, can make them feel anxious before, during, or after a scan or a follow-up test
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The Life Changing Science of Artificial Bones
In Sci-fi visions of distant futures, some imagine sprawling intergalactic civilizations. Scaffolds built around stars harvesting their energy. Fusion reactors, cyborgs, superintelligent implants. But the future of artificial bones, though perhaps more mundane, could be a life saving science.
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APCs as Allies: How Drug Delivery Hijacks Immunity
Discover how antigen-presenting cells like dendritic cells and macrophages are being recruited through smart particle design for vaccines and immunotherapy.
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More than Lactose: Natural Polymers Revolutionizing Inhaled Drug Delivery
Natural polysaccharides like locust bean gum and chitosan are replacing lactose as safer, more effective carriers for inhaled medications and vaccines.
Tech & AI
AI for Early Disease Prediction: How Algorithms Detect Illness Before Symptoms
Can algorithms predict sickness before you feel it? Explore how AI is using smartwatch data and ECGs to detect diseases like Alzheimer's and AFib early.
