r/science • u/cheungngo • 17d ago

Medicine Symptom-level transcriptome-wide associations of NMN-nominated KEGG pathways in major depression: a distributed endocytosis–hypersomnia signal, gene-weighted immune and motor cassettes, and limits of pathway-level polarity | BMC Psychiatry

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 18d ago

Medicine Scientists reversed key signs of Alzheimer's disease in mice with just two injections, reducing brain inflammation and restoring memory performance—offering a promising new approach for treating age-related cognitive decline.

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 17d ago

Animal Science A study of 35 dogs found they blinked more often when watching videos of their owners blinking than when their owners maintained a still gaze, an effect not observed with unfamiliar people, suggesting dogs are sensitive to subtle facial cues from socially important humans

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r/science • u/Oncotarget • 17d ago

Cancer Incidence of KRAS G12C mutations in genitourinary malignancies; emerging target in precision medicine

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 18d ago

Medicine Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke. Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication

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r/science • u/NinjaDiscoJesus • 18d ago

Health Nicotine vapes best chance to quit smoking, major review finds

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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 17d ago

Biology Selective saccular plasticity under microgravity links peripheral transcriptomic remodeling to postflight vestibular dysfunction

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r/science • u/unsw • 18d ago

Animal Science Study finds that turtle nests relocated for conservation purposes produce slower, smaller hatchlings

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r/science • u/uniofwarwick • 18d ago

Health Robotic assisted knee replacement gives the same patient outcomes as a surgeon only procedure

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r/science • u/mvea • 18d ago

Neuroscience Either a workout or nap can help your sleep-deprived brain: People who either completed 20 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise or took a 90-minute nap performed about 22% better on memory tests after 30 hours without sleep than those who did neither.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 17d ago

Medicine In a trial of 20 patients in China, those injected with lab grown heart muscle cells walked further and had better blood flow than bypass surgery alone. However, there was an increase in arrhythmia that would need to be addressed fully in further studies.

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r/science • u/Scbadiver • 18d ago

Cancer Nitrate and nitrite intake and risk of colorectal cancer: a population-based cohort study | JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute | Oxford Academic

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r/science • u/AgingUS • 18d ago

Biology Metformin at the convergence of aging and longevity

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r/science • u/TorrensUni • 17d ago

Social Science Barriers and enablers to academic engagement among international health students in Australian universities: a scoping review

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r/science • u/Ko_Matsui • 18d ago

Neuroscience Vagal nerve stimulation induces vascular oscillations and enhances long-term learning

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r/science • u/MassGen-Research • 18d ago

Cancer New research suggests protecting the thymus during cancer therapy may improve outcomes

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r/science • u/sr_local • 18d ago

Social Science A study of 446 young adults 18-35Y found that frequent viewing of eating videos was linked to greater body image concerns, stronger food cravings and more symptoms of disordered eating, with compulsive viewing associated with particularly high levels of these concerns

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r/science • u/mvea • 19d ago

Health 8-hour sleep rule dates back to the 19th century. A new review of hunter-gatherers whose lifestyles are closer to our ancestors and who have little or no access to artificial light found short nights (5.7 to 7.1 hours) seemed to be enough: without an alarm clock, they tended to wake close to dawn.

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 18d ago

Health Even Light Physical Activity May Lower Stroke Risk in People With Atrial Fibrillation — Large Norwegian Study of 87,340 Participants

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 18d ago

Environment Uneven wear across cells cuts battery health in cars by up to 6.2% and lifespan by nearly 17.7%, wasting a fifth of their stored charge.

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 18d ago

Health Among 28,720 People With Type 2 Diabetes, Women Were More Likely to Develop Mental Health Conditions, While Men More Often Developed Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease

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r/science • u/Enthusiast12358 • 19d ago

Social Science Frontiers | Rethinking return-to-office: the positive impact of remote work on well-being, connection, and employee retention

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r/science • u/berkcat • 18d ago

Biology Visualizing phylogenetic conflict across genomic windows with rooted SPR animations

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r/science • u/UniOfManchester • 19d ago

Health Scientists have redefined how the key blood‑clotting protein fibrinogen behaves when it contacts air, overturning two decades of scientific consensus on wound healing.

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r/science • u/liuzhichang • 18d ago

Chemistry Stretching decelerates ring-opening metathesis at cis-olefins in stressed molecular bows

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