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Medical Xpress / Why breastfeeding's benefits may last years: Immune cells link lactation to long-lasting health

It's widely known that breastfeeding impacts the health of both mother and child, but the underlying biology that leads to these effects has been understudied. In a review article published in Trends in Immunology, researchers ...

16 hours ago in Health
Phys.org / Will melting glaciers slow climate change? A prevailing theory is on shaky ground

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been the theory of iron fertilization. As temperatures rise and glaciers in Antarctica melt, ice-trapped ...

22 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Lymphovenous bypass could be potential surgical treatment for Alzheimer's disease

A small but growing body of evidence suggests that a minimally invasive surgical procedure called lymphovenous anastomosis (LVA) might be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to a special article ...

Medical Xpress / Nutrient timing found to influence gene activity in adipose tissue

Human metabolism is regulated by internal clocks, the so-called circadian rhythms. Many processes, such as sugar uptake, fat burning, or hormone release, oscillate during the day, i.e., they fluctuate and exhibit characteristic ...

10 hours ago in Genetics
Tech Xplore / Novel cathode design tames distortions to improve lithium-ion batteries

A battery's positive end (cathode) and negative end (anode) are two vital components that largely define how well it can perform. In particular, researchers have focused on improving the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of ...

18 hours ago in Engineering
Medical Xpress / The developing Down syndrome brain: Scientists create most detailed molecular map to date

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of chromosome 21 alters ...

Medical Xpress / Hormone therapy may not benefit most men receiving radiotherapy after prostate surgery, study finds

A new study led by UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators suggests that adding hormone therapy to postoperative radiotherapy may provide little survival benefit for most men with prostate cancer, especially ...

9 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Is a baby's heart defect hereditary? A NOTCH1 methylation test may clarify

One to two out of every 100 newborn babies are born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD), yet the exact cause remains unclear. Human geneticists at the University Medicine Oldenburg (Germany) have now presented a new method ...

10 hours ago in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Trust your gut to heal your brain: Antibiotics may aid recovery from traumatic brain injury

In a new study published in Communications Biology, Houston Methodist researchers led by Sonia Villapol, Ph.D., found that short-term antibiotic treatment significantly reduced neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration following ...

10 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Getting closer to the stars: Fink, a French tool for tracking transient phenomena across the observable universe

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, in real time and with ...

13 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Study finds more parents saying 'no' to vitamin K at birth, putting babies' brains at risk

Increasing numbers of parents are refusing vitamin K shots for their newborns, putting infants at greater risk of avoidable brain injuries, according to a preliminary systematic review released February 26, 2026, that will ...

11 hours ago in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Why you can't tie knots in four dimensions

We all know we live in three-dimensional space. But what does it mean when people talk about four dimensions? Is it just a bigger kind of space? Is it "space-time," the popular idea which emerged from Einstein's theory of ...

14 hours ago in Physics