Scientists have used laser-induced light to analyze tattoos on 1,200-year-old mummies from the Chancay culture, which existed in what is now Peru. This method allowed them to see many of the fine details of the original images…
Paleogeneticists have analyzed the DNA of a man whose remains were found in a prestigious tomb in the ancient city of Ephesus almost a hundred years ago. Scientists have refuted the hypothesis that they could have belonged to Arsinoe IV, the sister of the famous Egyptian…
Scientists from Denmark and the US have discovered that norepinephrine plays a key role in clearing the brain: during sleep, the brain stem releases the molecule every 50 seconds, causing blood vessels to contract and…
German physicists have been able to detect a signal from elastic coherent scattering of reactor antineutrinos on atomic nuclei using the germanium detector CONUS+. The statistical significance of the detection was 3.7 standard deviations. The results of the work are available at…
I think everyone has heard of this drug, but not everyone understands how it actually works: Ozempic (active ingredient - semaglutide) is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) mimetic. A mimetic is a substance…
Russian scientists have found a previously unknown bacteriophage Sxt1 in a therapeutic phage cocktail for treating bacterial infections, which is capable of infecting a number of wild strains of E. coli that are resistant to phages from the same family. Comparing…
Gabriella Captur of University College London and colleagues analysed available population-based cardiac MRI data and found that chronic exposure to aircraft noise at night was associated with…
Danish researchers have conducted the world's first pilot clinical trials that show that faecal transplantation can significantly improve the condition of patients with gastroenteropathy associated with type 1 diabetes. A report on the work…
Bone damage occurs for many reasons, from trauma to congenital problems. In addition, the number of elderly people worldwide is rapidly increasing, prone to bone deficiencies and increased risk of fractures…
American and French researchers have conducted a detailed clinical and histopathological analysis of the disease in a second patient who received a genetically modified pig heart and lived with it for almost six weeks. He was found to have damage…
Lu Qi of Tulane University and colleagues conducted an observational study and found that drinking coffee in the morning was associated with lower all-cause mortality and lower mortality from…
Julia Marcus of Harvard Medical School and colleagues from Australia and the US conducted a retrospective cohort study and found that post-exposure prophylaxis with doxycycline dramatically reduced the incidence of infections transmitted by…
Erina Hosoya and colleagues at Juntendo University performed a retrospective analysis of data from 41 patients treated for B-cell lymphoma with the CAR T-cell drug tisagenlecleucel over three years. It showed that…
A new study by Irish scientists involved more than two thousand people from the United States and Latin American countries. The sample included both healthy people and patients with Alzheimer's disease and other…
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