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Caffeine Chewing Gum Quickly Boosts Physical Performance, Meta-Analysis Finds
For athletes hunting for a legal edge in the final minutes before competition, caffeine has long been the go-to molecule....
Researchers validate low-cost filter device for sampling microplastics in wells
Groundwater may be the last great blind spot in microplastic research, and a team of hydrogeologists in the United States...
Genetic diversity of Ehrlichia canis revealed in naturally infected Brazilian dogs
In a finding that is reshaping how veterinarians and molecular epidemiologists understand the hidden diversity of one of the world’s...
Disulfidptosis: new insights into cancer cell death and therapeutic targets
Scientists are taking a closer look at one of the most unusual forms of cell death ever described, a process...
Four new genes linked to isolated short stature in children
Idiopathic short stature, the diagnosis given to children who fall far below normal height curves without any identifiable cause, has...
New study maps two decades of forensic virtopsy research
For nearly two decades, forensic pathologists have been able to peer inside the dead without a scalpel, thanks to a...
Salt-tolerant jeotgal bacteria evaluated as safe, functional fermentation starters
Scientists in South Korea have taken a major step toward transforming one of the country’s oldest culinary traditions into a...
Adolescent Internet Addiction Shows Varied Links to Mental Health in China
Pathological internet use among adolescents has long been treated as a single, uniform problem, but a new study of more...
Gut microbes and ABC transporters linked to herbal remedy for diarrhea
Antibiotics save lives, but they can also wreck the delicate microbial ecosystem of the gut, and in children that collateral...
Preliminary diffusion tensor MRI study of the normal fetal lung
In a development that could reshape how clinicians monitor lung development before birth, researchers in China have demonstrated that an...
Commiphora gileadensis resin metabolites show enzyme inhibition in computational study
For centuries, the resin of a small, scrubby tree that grows in the arid mountains of the Arabian Peninsula has...
Snails caught eating fire coral in Indo-Pacific reefs for first time
Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught...
Learning from mistakes: embedding qualitative methods in a pilot ARFID care pathway
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, better known as ARFID, has been formally recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
Global partnerships strengthen health technology assessment capacity in Asia and Africa
When governments decide whether to pay for a new medicine, a vaccine, a screening program or a medical device, the...
Modelling Infection-Related Cost Offsets of Difelikefalin in Chronic Kidney Disease Pruritus
Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus, the relentless and often debilitating itch that afflicts people on dialysis, has long been regarded primarily...
Machine learning model predicts melanoma prognosis using RNA modifications
Melanoma remains one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant forms of human cancer, and although immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed...
Serum adiponectin may help identify insulin resistance in recurrent miscarriage
A simple blood protein measured during routine pregnancy testing may help doctors spot a hidden metabolic culprit behind recurrent miscarriage,...
Mung bean protein hydrolysate protects against muscle atrophy in rats
Mung beans have long been a staple of Asian cuisine, prized for their protein content and digestibility, but new research...
Continuous Glucose Monitoring Reveals Glycemic Patterns in Insulin-Treated Type 2 Diabetes
Millions of people with type 2 diabetes inject a long-acting form of insulin every day, trusting that their basal insulin...
Turkish commercial wheat varieties reveal metabolic responses to salt stress
Salt is quietly strangling wheat fields across the world, and a team of Turkish researchers has now peered deep inside...