Tag: health
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(disease > symptoms) or (disease < symptoms) ?
Amyloids -- clumps of misfolded proteins found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders -- are the quintessential bad boys of neurobiology. They're thought to muck up the seamless workings of the neurons responsible for memory and movement, and researchers around the world have devoted themselves to devising ways of…
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Synthetic vaccines, natural fears...
British scientists develop a new way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which does not rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer. [1] Safer for the virus it is supposed to kill, that is... Because if vaccines based on live viruses have problems with success rates, I can only have nightmares on the success…
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sFRP3 and Being sad (a good thing?)
Scientist discovered how antidepressant drugs and electroconvulsive therapy works. They found out that these therapy methods reduce the Secreted frizzled-related protein 3 (sFRP3), which is in turn an inhibitor to the creation of new neurons in our brain. (1, 2, 3) This same protein increases in our body as we get older, thus playing also…
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Diet drinks, depression, "concerns"...
Experts are questioning whether diet drinks could raise depression risk, after a large study has found a link. [1] It is quite interesting how other studies for similar "links" are accepted just by the pre-publication (e.g. at PLOS), but when the interests of heavy industry are threatened experts suddenly have "concerns" on whether the results are…
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A world without Pain. Be careful what you wish for...
How would you like to live a life without pain? A young girl named Ashlyn does have this "unfortunate luck": she cannot feel any pain at all! At school, she was once asked if she was Superman. Could she feel a punch to the face? Could she walk across burning coals as if she were…
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