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| The small change of replacing one meat-based meal per day can make a big difference to people with liver cirrhosis, since this change reduces the amount of ammonia with which their livers have to deal, new research found. related: #liver #cirrhosis #no_meat |
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| Even in regions were you normally cannot see auroras, they are currently visible at night due to a strong geomagnetic storm coming from our Sun. related: #aurora #geomagnetic #Sun |
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| A young girl who was born deaf and suffered from a gene deficiency, which meant that a certain protein was not produced, which is responsible for the communication of the ear to the brain, has successfully been treated with some gene therapy, which means that she can hear first the first time in her life and hopefully can be considered as cured. related: #hearing #deafness #gene_therapy |
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| New research found that people who took a common sleeping pill, suvorexant, have a slightly reduced amount of two proteins that are related to Alzheimer's disease. This insight may lead to a a new treatment for Alzheimer's disease. related: #sleeping_pill #Alzheimer |
New research has found an additional piece of evidence for the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet: A spoonful of olive oil per day in the food seems to lower the risk of dementia related death by 28 percent. related: #Mediterranean_diet #olive_oil #health |
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| The body has several clocks, in particular, the central circadian clock (related to the brain) and peripheral circadian clocks (controlling cellular processes in organs). New research finds that keeping these and external clocks (day/night) in sync seems to be very important for slowing down ageing. related: #ageing #body_clocks |
Although bumblebees typically forage on their own, in experiments scientists set up an environment were they had to cooperate in order to solve a problem to get a sugary liquid, and surprisingly they did. related: #bumblebee #cooperation |
A study with more than 350,000 people in the UK found that good lifestyle choices such as not smoking, exercising, sleeping sufficiently, and eating healthily, can offset the risk of dying young because of genetic risk by 62 percent. related: #lifestyle #health |
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| A new study following up on 10,000 Australian women for 15 years, found that those who did regular exercise of at least 150 minutes a week at an age of 47 to 52 had a better physical health later in life. related: #exercise #health |
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| In new research, it has been found that in the brains of Alzheimer's patients microglia cells were more frequently in a preinflammatory state, so that they have less protective abilities to flash out dead cells. This insight may offer a new approach to treating Alzheimer's. related: #Alzheimer #cause #treatment |
Not only humans can treat wounds with medicine, but chimpanzees have done so and recently a Sumatran orangutan has been observed to apply a wound in his face with some leaf pulp until the wound was completely covered. Since he did not smear any other body part, the observers assume that he was intentionally treating his wound. related: #wound #treatment #animal |
A new study finds that in North America schemes to support low income people when they buy an e-bike are worthwhile, since buying an e-bike leads on average to a reduction of car travel (and corresponding CO2 emissions) between 30 and 40 percent. related: #e_bike #carbon |
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