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Cancer treatment could soon target a protein
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Using laser-assisted drug delivery to combat major diseases
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Researchers discover genetic link to impaired language among children with autism

Disease and treatment

Cancer treatment could soon target a protein

Disease and treatment

Using laser-assisted drug delivery to combat major diseases

Disease and treatment

Researchers discover genetic link to impaired language among children with autism

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Half the children in Guinea-Bissau have intestinal parasites

Friday, 5th July 2019

The researchers set out to study the immune system of children with intestinal worms in Guinea-Bissau. However, they were surprised when they investigated the samples from sick children. Fewer children than expected had intestinal worms, but half had intestinal parasites. ...

Disease and treatment

Hunger hormone counteracts Huntington’s disease

Tuesday, 2nd July 2019

The stomach produces a hormone called ghrelin when we are hungry. Now new research shows that ghrelin can counteract some of the symptoms of Huntington’s disease, which is a disabling neurological disease.

How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight

Friday, 28th June 2019

Babies who are especially small or large at birth have not only a higher risk of complications at birth but also a greater risk of overweight, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure in adulthood. Using a new revolutionary genetic method, ...

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How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight

Babies who are especially small or large at birth have not only a higher risk of complications at birth but also a greater risk of overweight, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure in adulthood. Using a new revolutionary genetic method, ...

Disease and treatment

How researchers plan to design better medicine

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How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement

The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer

Disease and treatment

Asthma prevention begins before birth

These genes influence whether you take risks

Tuesday, 25th June 2019

New research has discovered hundreds of genetic variants that are involved in determining whether you are prone to taking risks or playing it safe.

Disease and treatment

Researchers are discovering how paracetamol damages the liver

Friday, 21st June 2019

An overdose of paracetamol can be deadly. Although paracetamol poisoning causes no symptoms initially, it may have catastrophic effects on the liver. These people often feel fine for up to several days after an overdose, but the paracetamol activates a ...

Diet and lifestyle

Central regulator discovered: researchers now striving to tune metabolism

Friday, 2nd March 2018

Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other diseases resulting from imbalanced metabolism are hitting record highs worldwide. Our changing diet and sedentary lifestyles warn of the increasing challenges ahead. Researchers have recently discovered a protein that is present throughout the body ...

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The man with the golden DNA scissors

Wednesday, 5th April 2017

A tiny bacterium has upended the world as we thought we knew it just a few years ago. It has taken 25 years for researchers to understand what the bacterium was hiding. Virginijus Siksnys, a biochemist in Lithuania, cracked the code. ...

Structure is the key

Thursday, 30th March 2017

All life is based on structures. And knowing these structure is the foundation for understanding life. Poul Nissen, the recipient of the 2017 Novo Nordisk Prize, has studied the basic structures that create coherence in living organisms his whole life.

Disease and treatment

Molecular cause of type 2 diabetes can also cause Parkinson’

Monday, 9th January 2017

They arrive like a thief at night. Slowly, insidiously – catching a person unawares. Type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease both, in their own way, slowly incapacitate the people affected. Researchers have now found a molecular mechanism behind the development of ...

Women can write themselves out of a fertility crisis

Thursday, 5th January 2017

Men and women undergoing fertility treatment often experience stress and depression. Nearly one in six women and one in five men experience severe symptoms of depression after 1 year of treatment. In particular, the stress level increases in the time between ...

Diet and lifestyle

Computers will help us to be healthier as we age

Tuesday, 3rd January 2017

One hundred years. That is how old you are predicted to become if you were born in about 2000 and have a relatively healthy and active lifestyle. The prospect of a longer life has intensified research on healthy ageing. New research ...

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How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight

Disease and treatment

How researchers plan to design better medicine

Disease and treatment

How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement

The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer

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Asthma prevention begins before birth

Disease and treatment

Gastric surgery works: let’s turn it into a pill

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Missing link found between stress and mental illness

Friday, 7th April 2017

Anxiety and depression annually cause 1.6 million to 1.9 million days of sick leave in Denmark. Now Swedish researchers have found a possible link between the stress hormone cortisol and these two mental disorders. The individual sensitivity for developing these conditions appears ...

Diet and lifestyle

Many drugs in the blood of young people dying from heart attacks

Wednesday, 10th May 2017

An analysis of nearly 500 post-mortem reports of unexpected deaths among young people shows that most had a high blood concentration of at least one and often several drugs. The results suggest a possible connection between unexpected heart attacks and that ...

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