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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2, 2022 — A drug called semaglutide, which is approved for adults with obesity or overweight, also helps adolescents shed pounds and have...

A type of dietary fiber called inulin, commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type...

Innate lymphoid cells are a recently discovered family of white blood cells that reside in the skin, gastrointestinal tract, airways and other barrier tissues of...

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237Credit: Emiliano Bar, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237 Article Title: The effect of neuroscientific evidence on sentencing depends on how one conceives...

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823Credit: Marsh et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823 Article Title: Characterizing altruistic motivation in potential volunteers for SARS-CoV-2...

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276329Credit: Mariel Ferrari, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276329 Article Title: Gastropods underwent a major taxonomic turnover during the end-Triassic marine mass extinction...

People who suffer from chronic pain at age 44 are more like to report pain, poor general health, poor mental health outcomes and joblessness in...

As part of a multipronged approach to prevent infestations by the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica, researchers are unravelling the role of plant hormones, known as strigolactones...

Extensive data behind the Global Jukebox (http://theglobaljukebox.org) —an online tool for exploring recordings of music and other performing arts from around the world—has now been made available...

What does humanity do when we discover we are not alone in the cosmos? A new international research hub at the University of St Andrews...

Inflammation and increased mucus production are typical symptoms of worm infections and allergies. This immune response involves our innate immune cells, but their exact functions...

Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National...

New images from scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reveal for the first time the three-dimensional structures of a set of molecules critical for healthy...

Sperm cells have compact bundles of DNA, yet exactly how and why sperm cell nuclei are condensed in flowering plants has been a mystery, until...

Climate change could trigger the Congo peatlands to release billions of tonnes of carbon  Credit: Greenpeace/Kevin McElvaney Climate change could trigger the Congo peatlands to release...