What Helps the Brain Stay Healthy With Age? Scientists Are Unpicking Mental Resilience Why do some people reach older age with memory, attention and independence largely intact, while others develop cognitive decline much earlier? It is one of the ce...
Continue readingBelly Fat May Matter More Than BMI for Heart Failure Risk For decades, body mass index has been the quick shorthand for whether someone’s weight may be affecting their health. It is easy to calculate, easy to compare across populations, and widely us...
Continue reading‘Mini Brains’ Are Reshaping Research — but They’re Not Replacing Lab Animals Yet Few research tools have captured the public imagination quite like “mini brains”. The phrase suggests something almost futuristic: tiny brain-like structures grown in th...
Continue readingFinding a Food Pathogen Doesn’t Always Mean You’ll Fall Ill When a food test comes back positive for a pathogen, it sounds alarmingly straightforward. A harmful bacterium has been found. Therefore the food is dangerous. Therefore illness is likely. T...
Continue readingProtein Shape Could Become the Next Frontier in Alzheimer’s Biomarkers In Alzheimer’s research, the search for better biomarkers is really a search for time. Time to identify disease earlier. Time to distinguish meaningful brain change from normal ag...
Continue readingLiquid Biopsy Is Getting Closer to Diagnosing Disease from a Tiny Blood Sample Few ideas in modern medicine sound as immediately attractive as this one: detecting disease from a tiny amount of blood. No invasive biopsy. No need to remove a piece of t...
Continue readingHepatoblastoma Is Still One of Childhood Cancer’s Biggest Biological Mysteries When a cancer appears in very early childhood, one question hangs over everything else: how did it begin? In hepatoblastoma, the most common liver tumour in children, that...
Continue readingA New Genetic Risk Score for Diabetes and Obesity Sounds Powerful — but the Evidence Here Falls Short Precision medicine has made one idea especially appealing: if disease risk is partly written into our biology, then perhaps we should be able to rea...
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