Category: Biology
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Housekeeping Biological Mechanism in Brain May Also Regulate Sleep
Scientists have found that a housekeeping biological mechanism in the brain may also regulate sleep. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found a specific signaling pathway in fruit flies and zebrafish is required for sleep. This pathway is also important in getting rid of buildup of abnormal protein aggregates in brain cells. The researchers’ findings…
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Scientists Study How Intermittent Fasting Improves Liver Health and Helps Prevent Disease
Scientists are using the latest analytical tools to find out how intermittent fasting improves liver health and help prevent disease. Researchers at the University of Sydney used an analytical tool called multi-Omics to look at the effects of every-other-day-fasting in mice. Their results were published in the journal Cell Reports. Multi-Omics Every-other-day-fasting, where food is…
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COVID-19 is a Challenge for the Entire World
The emergence of COVID-19, which started in China and is now spreading globally, is now a challenge for the entire world, when it comes to the threat of emerging infectious diseases. Infectious diseases like COVID-19 “pose complex challenges to the global public health, research and medical communities,” write federal scientists from NIH’s National Institute of…
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Researchers Understanding How the Drug Remdesivir Can Treat COVID-19 Patients
Researchers are reporting their findings on how the drug remdesivir works to treat patients who have contracted the COVID-19 virus that is running rampant in China and spreading to other countries. The National Institutes of Health also announced that remdesivir is being used in the first clinical trial of an experimental treatment for COVID-19 in…
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CT Scan Most Effective in Detecting COVID-19
A study recently published in the journal Radiology showed that chest CT scan was the most effective screening method in detecting 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The study involved 1,000 patients. Based on the data, CT should be used as the primary diagnosis method to screen for COVID-19. The Chinese government has been screening its…
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Ancient Gut Microbiome May Have Affected Our Ancestors’ Daily Lives
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution have recently done a study that shows that our ancestor’s microbiome might be more crucial than it had been previously thought. This is because, according to a recent discovery, the adaptive gut microbiome might have played a vital role in human dispersal. Consequently, this helped our ancestors to adapt to…