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Biological plumbing: how the body makes ducts

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Biomarkers can help maintain a healthy body weight

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Tick bites do not trigger Alzheimer’s disease

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Severe risk of bias in the results from clinical trials of treatment for anorexia

Tuesday, 3rd December 2019

Research shows that the findings from clinical trials on treatments for mental disorders have a high risk of bias.

One step closer to the magical molecules mediating exercise

Thursday, 28th November 2019

Exercise benefits our health and stamina. However, the precise molecular signals exercise transmits throughout the body have not yet been clarified. Researchers have now mapped several of the molecules that could mediate these useful effects in our muscles. They hope ...

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New theory: why mountain regions are unusually biodiverse

Sunday, 24th November 2019

The world’s mountain regions are extraordinarily biodiverse. Research with Danish participation advances a theory explaining 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

Researchers map the immune response of bacteria

Tuesday, 19th November 2019

The discovery of the molecular mechanism behind the immune response of bacteria may become important in combating antibiotic resistance.

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Fruit fly gene can help us to combat disease and ageing

Saturday, 16th November 2019

Our bodies constantly repair and regenerate tissue. The body continually creates new cells based on stem cells in various types of tissue that can perform the highly specialized functions the tissue requires. When we age or when our body is ...

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Severe risk of bias in the results from clinical trials of treatment for anorexia

Tuesday, 3rd December 2019

Research shows that the findings from clinical trials on treatments for mental disorders have a high risk of bias.

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Gener fra isolerede folkeslag røber fedmens akilleshæl

Monday, 1st July 2019

Forskere har i årevis forgæves søgt i høstakken af menneskelige gener efter den nål, der har ført til verdens fedmeepidemi. Kigger man på verdens befolkningers samlede pulje af gener, er der ingen tydelig sammenhæng ...

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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 ...

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You can’t score if you don’t shoot

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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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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