Women who suffer pregnancy complications are more likely to develop heart disease up to five decades after giving birth, a major study suggests. Researchers looked at more than two million…

Summary: 6 to 9-month-old babies can form memories of masked faces and recognize the faces when the mask is removed. Source: UC Davis Babies learn from looking at human faces,…

Summary: Loneliness and a lack of social support contribute to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. The findings add to the growing body of evidence linking…

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Common sleeping pills may significantly raise the risk of dementia, a study suggests. People who said they took them ‘often’ or ‘almost always’ were up to 80 percent more likely…

Clinical cohort A cohort of 416 patients with LUAD were included in this study with follow-up time ranging from February 1996 to July 2020. For the validation cohort, 60 patients…

Muramatsu, M. et al. Class switch recombination and hypermutation require activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a potential RNA editing enzyme. Cell 102, 553–563 (2000). CAS  Google Scholar  Viant, C. et al.…

Why coffee does NOT give you extra energy: Scientist says pick-me-up is merely a ‘loan’ that needs to be repaid with sleep Caffeine temporarily blocks a chemical called adenosine preventing…

The Kraken subvariant of Covid is spreading so fast that it is likely to become the dominant strain in the UK by the end of the month, analysis shows. It…

An all-out fitness campaign often seems like a good idea at the start of the year. But lifestyle overhauls are usually destined to fail, simply because they’re unrealistic. By taking…