UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 01: By Trillium (Photo by Karen Radkai/Conde Nast via Getty Images)
We live in a culture that rewards overachievement but often overlooks the importance of rest. But here’s the truth: sleep is…
Category: 5. Health
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AI Didn’t Invent Desire, But It’s Rewiring Human Sex And Intimacy
TOPSHOT – Created by French digital and virtual artist Miguel Chevalier at the “Pixels” exhibition … More
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Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence
Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Obesity affects a substantial proportion of patients with…
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Fast food, fast impact: How fatty meals rapidly weaken our gut defenses
A study led by researchers from WEHI (Melbourne, Australia) has become the first in the world to unravel the immediate effects of a high-fat diet on our gut health.
The pre-clinical study found even a few meals high in saturated fats can cause…
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Survival trick: Pathogen taps iron source in immune cells
The body defends itself against pathogens by depriving them of vital iron. However, this strategy doesn’t always succeed against Salmonella. Researchers at the University of Basel have discovered that these bacteria specifically target iron-rich…
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After cardiac event, people who regularly sit for too long had higher risk of another event
People who sit or remain sedentary for more than 14 hours a day, on average, may have a higher risk of a cardiovascular event or death in the year after treatment at a hospital for symptoms of a heart attack such as chest pain, according to new…
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More donor hearts by extending the preservation time
A new discovery by Mayo Clinic researchers could mean more donor hearts are available for heart transplant, giving more people a second chance at life. In findings published in Nature Cardiovascular Research, a team led by Mayo Clinic cardiac…
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Family of parasite proteins presents new potential malaria treatment target
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect…
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Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug
The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it’s difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn’t been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have cracked…
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A first blueprint of chemical transport pathways in human cells
An unprecedented international effort to decode how cells manage the transport of chemical substances has culminated in four groundbreaking studies published in Molecular Systems Biology. Led by Giulio Superti-Furga at CeMM, the Research Center…
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