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Appetite-Suppressing Molecule Could Be Why You Don’t Feel Hungry After a Hard Workout
A poorly-studied metabolite may play a role in suppressing appetite after an intense workout, finds a new study published in Nature. The research, mainly conducted in mice, also showed the molecule was boosted by intense exercise in racehorses and humans.
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New Probe Could Improve Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
A new fluorescence imaging probe could improve the in vivo detection of a form of amyloid beta that enables early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
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Study Demonstrates Potential of UK Biobank To Inform Genetic Disease Research
A new study has analyzed the diverse ancestries of people living in the UK. This knowledge has the potential to inform future health research on genetic factors leading to disease.
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Taste-Related Genes May Play a Role in Determining Food Choices
Preliminary findings from a new study involving more than 6,000 adults found that taste-related genes may play a role in determining food choices and could, in turn, influence cardiometabolic health.
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Alternative Route That Cells Take To Make Organs Uncovered
Extra-embryonic stem cells have been used to identify an alternative route by which organs develop in the embryo.
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A Dynamic Duo of Cells Identified in Lung Blood Vessels
Scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago have analyzed gene expression data from more than 35,000 blood vessel cells from the lungs of mice and identified two subtypes.
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Using Genetics To Analyze Coffee Drinking Behavior and Effects on Pregnancy
Genetic analysis has revealed a set of genetic variants that affect how much coffee we drink and has identified that drinking coffee during pregnancy does not increase the risks of miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth.
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Virus That Poses a Global Threat Neutralized by Antibody Cocktail
A cocktail of four manufactured antibodies has been found to be effective at neutralizing a virus from the Henipavirus family, a group of pathogens considered to be a global biosecurity threat.
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Mechanism Links Mutations in the Non-Coding Portion of the Genome to Cancer
Many sections of the non-coding region of the human genome play a key role in regulating gene activity. But the relationship between non-coding mutations and cancer risk has been a mystery.
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Complex Architecture of “Molecular Giant” Understood in Greater Detail Than Ever Before
Combining an artificial intelligence-based program that predicts protein structures with experimental and computational techniques has helped scientists figure out the human nuclear pore complex’s architecture in greater detail than ever before.
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