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A biomarker in the brain predicts future cognitive decline in patients with the language form of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Northwestern Medicine scientists discovered the buildup of tau protein in the brain predicts the amount of future cognitive decline over one year in individuals with […]

Natural killer cells do not just kill cancer cells or cells infected with viruses, they also mediate a trade-off between wound healing and bacterial defense in skin wounds. If the healing process is accelerated, the immune defense is weakened, researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown. This has […]

Berkeley Lab researchers helped validate new AI-based algorithm, RosETTAFold, to generate hundreds of new protein structures. “The dream of predicting a protein shape just from its gene sequence is now a reality,” said Paul Adams, Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences at Berkeley Lab. For Adams and other structural biologists who […]

Aging, especially in late life, is not a beautiful process for everyone. For many it causes a lot of suffering, including dementia. While the problems of aging still cannot be solved, scientists are developing tools to make it at least a little bit less painful. Researchers at the University of […]

Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease, which affects people’s joints, skin, eyes, lungs and some other organs. Usually rheumatoid arthritis is recognizable because of damaged joints, but it is a much more widely reaching autoimmune disease. That is why scientists at UCL are looking into the gut for the origins of […]

An avocado a day could help redistribute belly fat in women toward a healthier profile, according to a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators. One hundred and five adults with overweight and obesity participated in a randomized controlled trial that provided one meal a day for […]