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Gigantic virus gives researchers a headache

Tuesday, 8th October 2019

Researchers have identified a giant virus that attacks a type of bacteria known to be associated with the development of diabetes and obesity.

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New research: people with high blood pressure should get a flu shot every year

Friday, 4th October 2019

It is well known that the flu can be dangerous for older and frail people. However, new research shows that the flu is more dangerous for people with high blood pressure. A large population study among people with high blood ...

Help! Why do our cells have so much RNA with no apparent function?

Tuesday, 1st October 2019

A cell nucleus produces significantly more non-functional RNA than functional RNA. A Danish research group is delving deep into the engine room of evolution to try and find the reason why.

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You can’t score if you don’t shoot

Three decades ago, only a small number of researchers talked about gut hormones. Today, many people view these hormones as building blocks for developing new therapies to confront the obesity and diabetes epidemics that are sweeping the world. Daniel J. ...

How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight

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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

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Herpes increases the risk of mental disorders and suicidal behaviour

Sunday, 29th September 2019

New Danish research shows that herpesvirus not only causes cold sores but also increases the risk of developing a mental disorder and attempting or dying from suicide. The discovery may be important in understanding how mental disorders develop.

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Researchers have found a key to fighting degenerative diseases

Friday, 27th September 2019

People with cancer or infections are often attacked quickly and aggressively, whereas people with neurodegenerative diseases deteriorate slowly. Nevertheless, this slow decline of body and mind is almost unavoidable since these diseases are usually incurable. Researchers have now discovered what ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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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Asthma prevention begins before birth

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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 ...

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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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