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COVID-19 may actually trigger the onset of diabetes in healthy people
Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 may actually trigger the onset of diabetes in healthy people and also cause severe complications of pre-existing diabetes.
A letter...
Special antibodies that llamas make can be directed against SARS-CoV-2 to help find our...
Rocky and Marley are used to the company of scientists. Like many other members of their species, the two llamas, living in pastures in...
One of three men between the ages of 18 to 24 have not had...
Sex, and lots of it, has long been the primary preoccupation of young adults, but more of them are now going months and years...
Patients with a history of seizures reported experiencing hallucinations
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have shown for the first time, the mental health significance...
Dysfunction in methylation can cause any number of pathologies from atherosclerosis to cancer
Every second of every day, countless biochemical reactions take place in our bodies’ cells.
The organization of this complex system is the result of...
COVID-19 : panic buying – many people began stockpiling commodities including toilet paper
Following the fast spread of COVID-19 across Europe and North America in March 2020, many people began stockpiling commodities including toilet paper.
Some companies...
Could humans hibernate in the future? Research show that activating Q neurons caused hibernation-like...
In Sci-Fi movies, astronauts often enter an inactive state in “hibernation chambers” to cross the vastness of space.
This could cut down on the...
Testing studies from around the world confirm that up to 45% of people infected...
An extraordinary percentage of people infected by the virus behind the ongoing deadly COVID-19 pandemic - up to 45 percent - are people who...
A study confirms that minimally invasive surgery for early-stage cervical cancer is linked to...
A study led by researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center confirms that minimally invasive surgery for early-stage cervical cancer is linked to higher...
Two aspirins a day reduced the rate of bowel cancer by half
A regular dose of aspirin to reduce the risk of inherited bowel cancer lasts at least 10 years after stopping treatment, research has revealed.
The...
Le persone che hanno sangue di tipo O hanno meno probabilità di contrarre COVID-19
I rappresentanti di 23andMe, un servizio di test genetici diretto al consumatore, hanno riferito che le persone che hanno sangue di tipo O hanno...
COVID-19 : Scientists are testing if convalescent plasma might also prevent infection
Survivors of COVID-19 are donating their blood plasma in droves in hopes it helps other patients recover from the coronavirus. And while the jury's...
COVID-19 : interferon lambda (λ) can fight viral infection while limiting inflammatory damage
Interferons and other cytokines produced by the immune system are important defenses against viral infections, but as we have seen in COVID-19, they can...
People who have type O blood are slightly less likely to get COVID-19
Representatives with 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service, have reported that people who have type 0 blood are slightly less likely to get COVID-19....
Neutrophil distraction can avoid immune system overreaction – the most common cause of death...
A long-ignored white blood cell may be central to the immune system overreaction that is the most common cause of death for COVID-19 patients...
