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Mushrooms Uncovered: Health Benefits from Recent Scientific Insights

Several scientists addressed the health benefits of mushrooms in a session Monday at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New…

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Green Tea’s Impact on Heart Disease Risk Factors: Study Insights

The study, performed by Dr Nikolaos Alexopoulos and colleagues at the 1st Cardiology Department, Athens Medical School in Greece, was a randomised trial…

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New Study Reveals UVB’s Greater DNA Damage Than UVA

As bombs burst in air this July 4, chances are that sunburn will be the red glare that most folks see – and feel. But unfortunately, even when there is no…

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Artichoke Leaf Extract: A Natural Way to Lower Cholesterol

Cardiovascular diseases are the chief causes of death in the UK, and are associated with raised circulating levels of total cholesterol in the plasma. Once…

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Researchers of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) elucidate the early mechanism of cardiovascular specification

The mature heart is composed by different cell types, including contractile cardiac cells, vascular cells, smooth muscle cells as well as pacemaker cells….

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Understanding Fungi: From Disease Outbreaks to Scientific Innovation

Fungi can cause a number of life-threatening diseases but they also are becoming increasingly useful to science and manufacturing every year. However, many…

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New Map Reveals Core Structures of the Human Brain

The work by the researchers from Indiana University, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Harvard…

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Broccoli’s Role in a Designer Diet for Prostate Cancer

For the first time, a research group at the Institute of Food Research led by Professor Richard Mithen has provided an explanation of how eating broccoli might…

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First comprehensive analysis of cancer incidence, mortality and survival combined reveals encouraging trends in Europe …

The first research to look at recent trends in European cancer incidence, mortality and survival together has shown that cancer prevention and management in…

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Understanding Intuition: Insights from Ingemar Stenmark

“Can’t ‘splain sump’n to somebody who doesn’t understand it”; “my legs think faster than I do” (Swedish alpine skiing champion Ingemar Stenmark). “Skate where…

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More Intercourse Linked to Lower Erectile Dysfunction Risk

Analyzing a five-year study of 989 men aged 55 to 75 years from Pirkanmaa, Finland, the investigators observed that men reporting intercourse less than once…

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New Hybrid Molecule Unlocks Quantum Computing Advances

In a Nature Physics journal paper currently online, the researchers describe how they have created a new, hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be…

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Rethinking Kids’ Activity Guidelines: Ties to Childhood Obesity

The study carried out by the EarlyBird Diabetes Research Centre at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth aimed to determine the extent to which physical…

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Portable Lab Innovations for Quick Disease Detection

There is no quick and simple way to detect infectious bacteria on farms, or even in food processing and distribution plants. Samples have to be sent to labs…

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Almonds: Unlocking Prebiotic Benefits for Gut Health

Our digestive system maintains large population of bacteria that live in the colon. Prebiotics are non-digestible parts of foods that these bacteria can use to…

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Self-Powered Knee Implants: A Breakthrough in Healing

As part of his final year project in his Masters degree in Electromechanical Engineering, which he studied at the University's School of Electronics and…

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