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Researchers discover a completely natural way to stop your body from aging

The results from different statistical approaches reveal that epigenetic aging essentially stalls during hibernation.

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Groundbreaking therapy shown to reduce Alzheimer's effects by 80%

Compelling evidence suggests that the misfolding, aggregation, and cerebral deposition of amyloid-beta plays a central role in the disease.

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'Drug factory' beads eliminate advanced-stage cancers in a few days

Researchers have shown they can eradicate advanced-stage mesothelioma tumors with a treatment using cytokine “drug factory” implants.

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Machine learning generates highly-accurate diagnoses of elusive global killer -- Sepsis

Sepsis is difficult to diagnose and causes an estimated 20% of deaths globally and as many as 20 to 50% of U.S. hospital deaths each year.

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Novel blood stem cell research could change medicine of the future

Making stem cells from a patient’s adult cells – rather than human embryos – is one of the holy grails in modern medicine treatments.

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'Drug factory' beads eliminate advanced-stage cancers in just 6 days

Rice and Baylor University researchers have shown they can eradicate advanced-stage mesothelioma tumors in mice in just a few days.

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Eating fish protect our brains from air pollution, study finds

Two servings a week of baked or broiled fish or shellfish may provide enough omega-3 fatty acids to counteract the effects of air pollution

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Blood molecule shown to reduce food intake and obesity

Researchers identified a molecule in the blood that is produced during exercise and can effectively reduce food intake and obesity.

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How is blood formed? New research completely upends our past understanding

Using cellular “barcoding” in mice, a groundbreaking study finds that blood cells originate not from one type of mother cell, but two.