"Celiac risk may begin with weaker helper T cells, not just overactive immunity
New research is challenging long-held assumptions about autoimmune disease, revealing that celiac disease may be driven…"
"Eating in the middle of the night can cause gastrointestinal issues
Eating during the body's usual sleep period disrupts synchronization among intestinal cell circadian clocks, with interstitial…"
"Fathers may influence their children's health before they're even conceivedPaternal metabolic information influencing offspring health is established during sperm development in the testis,…"
"The birds got scared of the genet in cooler temperatures—they'd call out, scan their surroundings, or simply flee. But once it got hot, they behaved similarly whether they were facing the…"
"Cognitive problems Heat waves can also hamper the ability of animals to learn, as Ridley and her colleagues observed with the southern pied babblers. In one of their experiments, the birds were…"
"They call it 'stupid hot' for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains
There is plenty of evidence that animals are affected by heat. Birds, for example, spend less time looking for food and…"
"To better understand why this happens, the researchers used cryo-electron microscopy, a powerful imaging technique that can visualize proteins at near-atomic resolution.
The team found that TRPM4…"
"Some drugs 'fail' because of unrealistic testing conditions, scientists discover
A drug once dismissed as ineffective suddenly worked—when scientists tested it under more realistic…"
"'Technostress': Why many older people feel shut out by the digital worldOlder adults experience technostress due to rapid digitalization, facing barriers such as inaccessible interfaces,…"
"Asexual reproduction slowed the pace of evolution to a crawl
The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led…"