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A study of energy expenditure during some of the world’s longest, most grueling sporting events suggests that no matter what the activity, everyone hits the same metabolic limit, likely due to constraints on the digestive tract’s ability to break down food.
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Researchers have shown how skin vaccination can generate protective CD8 T-cells that are recruited to the genital tissues and could be used as a vaccination strategy for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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New research provide the first archaeological evidence that anatomically modern humans were roasting and eating plant starches, such as those from tubers and rhizomes, as early as 120,000 years ago.
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C Credit: Epainassist.com MIT researchers have performed the first comprehensive analysis of the genes that are expressed in individual brain
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Why do you swig bitter, dark roast coffee while your coworker guzzles sweet cola? Scientists searched for variations in our
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Doctoral student Mohamed Gamal uses a newly developed cell encapsulation device. Credit: Nathan Skolski, UBC Okanagan A simple injection that
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Credit: Medical express Consuming garlic helps counteract age-related changes in gut bacteria associated with memory problems, according to a new
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In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Neuroscience, Rob Reinhart, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston
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With a precise, controlled movement, microrobots cleared a glass plate of a biofilm, as shown in this time-lapse image. Credit:
Read moreCredit: © Stamford University By blocking a protein’s activity with antibodies, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators were able to
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