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The mechanism of a drug that could help treat acute myeloid leukemia has been identified. The drug activates AMPK – the main detector of cell energy levels – which triggers apoptosis.

A new study has identified an association between a genetic variant that increases the risk of developing severe COVID-19 and protection against HIV infection.

Analysis of 60 billion tweets has shown that social media can form an echo chamber contributing to vaccine hesitancy.

New research finds that the Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to more than 50 different kinds of insecticides by turning to a deep pool of diversity within its genome.

An easily produced composite of aluminum and gallium creates aluminum nanoparticles that could enable the production of clean hydrogen fuel.

Juvenile fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by a chronic pain affecting the whole body. Analyzing the brain changes that occur in the first stages of juvenile fibromyalgia could help to better understand the pathophysiology of this syndrome, which had not been approached from this perspective to date.

Researchers have uncovered new details about the process through which motor neurons develop into subtypes that help to control different body parts.

Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life is linked with a decrease in healthy bacteria necessary amongst others to digest milk and an increase in antimicrobial resistance, research suggests.

A post-transcriptional modification to mRNA can protect the mRNA from virus-mediated degradation in Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection.

Mental speed – the speed at which we can deal with issues requiring rapid decision-making – does not change substantially over decades.