A Science study of 1,543 human milk samples from Canada, Pakistan and Burkina Faso finds shared molecular patterns that tie maternal nutrition, mammary gland function and infant growth together, and points to seven candidate biomarkers.
An experimental injection called CBL-514 triggers fat cells to die off on their own. Early human data show less visceral belly fat, but the results come from a small conference abstract, not a peer-reviewed paper.
Stanford researchers blocked an age-linked enzyme called 15-PGDH and watched worn knee cartilage thicken in old mice, protect against post-injury arthritis, and even stir to life in human tissue from knee-replacement patients. Exciting, but still early.
A 2024 review in Hypertension explains how immune cells, inflammatory signals and even oxidative by-products can help push blood pressure up and damage organs, and why that opens the door to new treatment ideas.
Long COVID, ME/CFS, PTSD, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis start in very different ways, yet all can end in crushing fatigue. A new genomic analysis suggests they may disrupt the same biological networks.
A single infusion of the experimental CRISPR-Cas9 therapy CTX310 kept LDL cholesterol down 52.5% and triglycerides down 47.8% a year later in a first-in-human trial, with no serious treatment-related adverse events.
A Swedish study of 3.7 million people finds that congenital TORCH infections, though rare, are tied to a markedly higher risk of autism and intellectual disability in the child.
When people talk about the biology of Alzheimer's disease, the conversation almost always centers on two culprits: amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles. A new study from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the University of... Continue Reading →
For decades, the working assumption in cardiology has been simple and grim: once heart muscle dies during a heart attack, it's gone for good. A new study from the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute, and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital... Continue Reading →