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Researchers find link between male sex hormones and ovarian disease

Wednesday, 10th April 2019

Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common disorder among women of reproductive age and often leads to problems in becoming pregnant. Now scientists have found a link between polycystic ovary syndrome, elevated levels of male sex hormones, obesity and effects ...

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How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement

Friday, 5th April 2019

The myriad processes that take place in our body’s cells are the basis of life as we know it. Since cells are filled with fluid, British chemist Carol Robinson created a lot of attention by setting out to investigate ...

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Vigorous exercise can suppress appetite

Wednesday, 3rd April 2019

A Danish study indicates that vigorous-intensity exercise suppresses appetite, but the effect only lasts for a few months. The study is the first of its type to examine how long-term exercise affects appetite among individuals with overweight or obesity.

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How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement

The myriad processes that take place in our body’s cells are the basis of life as we know it. Since cells are filled with fluid, British chemist Carol Robinson created a lot of attention by setting out to investigate ...

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

Researchers search for the tremors that stop the heart

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

Friday, 29th March 2019

Each of the body's millions of cells contains an exact copy of our DNA. This places great demands on the machinery that replicates the DNA when cells divide. If things go wrong serious diseases such as cancer can emerge. Now ...

What happens when proteins are defective?

Wednesday, 27th March 2019

Danish researchers have linked changes in DNA to defects in proteins. This is a way to understand precisely how tiny variations in the body’s DNA can result in diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, cystic fibrosis and phenylketonuria.

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

Researchers search for the tremors that stop the heart

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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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