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Healthy adults who eat high amounts of ultra-processed food, like packaged snack foods, sugary breakfast cereals, soft drinks, instant noodles and ready-to-eat frozen meals, are more likely to have signs of damage to the ...

A study conducted at the Hubrecht Institute reveals that the intestines use the rhythm of a signal to decide which cells to make. Researchers from the Sonnen group discovered that chemical signals oscillate at different rhythms ...

Heart failure (HF) is a condition in which the heart is not able to pump blood effectively. However, its effects go beyond pumping and circulation. HF is also known to cause a lasting form of innate immune memory in stem ...

One of the main ways that the APOE4 gene variant, the biggest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, undermines brain circuit function is by disrupting the process of insulating neurons with a fatty sheath ...

Exposure to nicotine during pregnancy and shortly after birth can have a lasting impact on a child's immune system and cause more severe respiratory infections later in life, a new study from researchers at the University ...

Thousands of heart patients could be treated without having a metal stent permanently implanted in their arteries—according to research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). A major analysis of more than 7,800 patients ...

Girls who added a prebiotic fiber supplement to their usual diets for a year built more bone than girls who took a placebo, according to a clinical trial led by Florida International University nutrition researcher Cristina ...

Retatrutide, a next-generation GLP-1 weight-loss drug, is not yet approved for use. Nevertheless, online forums reveal that people are purchasing unapproved versions of the drug, which are not intended for human consumption, ...

For several decades, researchers have sought to identify biomarkers capable of accurately predicting the outcome of an infection with a high-risk oncogenic HPV type. Despite significant advances, no viral, immune-related ...

Genetic testing that helps doctors select the right antidepressant for a patient did not lead to better improvements in depressive symptoms than standard prescriptions based on clinical guidelines, according to a clinical ...

Overall ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption was not associated with increased colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence in a cohort of more than 400,000 U.S. adults, according to a study published Oct. 15 by Erikka Loftfield of ...

A team led by Harvard Medical School researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has developed a faster way to identify and engineer cancer-fighting therapies.