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There's No Cheating Old Age, Finds Population Study
Special diets, exercise programs, supplements and vitamins -- everywhere we look there is something supposed to help us live longer. Maybe those work: human average life expectancy has gone from a meager 40-ish years to a whopping 70-something since 1850. Does this mean we are slowing down death?
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Small Epigenomic Signals Matter in the Human Brain, Here’s Why
Researchers have carried out the largest study to date on the regulatory elements in the genome of primates. They found that in humans, the weakest regulatory signals, that are not usually studied, play an important role in the regulation of genes linked to brain.
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Immune Cells Tricked Into Helping Tumors Invade the Lungs
Scientists have found that macrophages can be fooled by tumors when cancer starts forming in the lungs and help the tumor become invasive.
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“Enabler Cells” Inside Tumors Can Trigger Metastasis
Research has shown that a small number of "enabler cells" found in tumors can enable and recruit other types of cells nearby, allowing the cancer to metastasize.
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New Discoveries From Analyzing Alternative Splicing of Glutamate Receptors
Dr. Robin Herbrechter and Professor Andreas Reiner from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) systematically analyzed alternative splicing in the family of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs), which is essential for signal processing in the brain.
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Antarctic Ozone Pollution Has Increased
Ozone very high in the atmosphere’s ozone layer absorbs damaging ultraviolet radiation, but is a pollutant at ground level. Researchers have analyzed more than 25 years of Antarctic data, finding that concentrations near the ground arose from both natural and human-related sources.
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Next-Generation COVID-19 Vaccines Could Stimulate Another Arm of the Immune System
A new study looking at the way human cells activate the immune system in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection could open the door to even more effective and powerful vaccines against the coronavirus and its rapidly emerging variants keeping the global pandemic smoldering.
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Persistent Toxic Chemicals Found in Fetal Organs
Researchers found industrial chemicals in the organs of fetuses conceived decades after many countries had banned the substances. The researchers urge decision makers to consider the combined impact of the mix of chemicals that accumulate in people and nature.
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Bioactive Packaging Keeps Strawberries Fresh
Researchers have developed a packaging film that can keep strawberries fresh for up to 12 days.
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Exploiting the Body's "Natural Killers" To Target Breast Cancer
Researchers are using a bifunctional protein as a "bridge" between natural killer cells and breast cancer cells. This strategy could help to develop a novel breast cancer-specific immunotherapy.
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