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The use of opioids to soothe the pain of a pulled tooth could be drastically reduced or eliminated altogether from dentistry, say researchers. Source: Ouch: Patients prescribed opioids after tooth extraction report worse pain
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Scientists have identified the mechanism that allows skin cells to sense changes in their environment, and very quickly respond to reinforce the skin’s outermost layer. The findings provide insight into how errors in this process might lead to skin conditions like psoriasis. Source: How skin cells embark on a swift yet elaborate death
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Researchers discover the enzyme SPRK1’s role in reorganizing the paternal genome during the first moments of fertilization — a finding that might help explain infertility cases of unknown cause. Source: How sperm unpack dad's genome so it can merge with mom's
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Current guidance on coronavirus ‘largely ignores’ the implications for public health and clinical responses in light of those most at risk, according to an international group of global health experts. Source: Call for older people in poor countries to be considered in global responses to COVID-19
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Researchers have uncovered the mechanism by which Epo acts in nerve cells. Source: Brain-doping produced by your own body
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As outbreaks of COVID-19 disease caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continue worldwide, there’s reassuring evidence that children have fewer symptoms and less severe disease. Source: COVID-19 appears less severe in children
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Researchers have uncovered stem cell-activated mechanisms of healing after a heart attack. Stem cells restored cardiac muscle back to its condition before the heart attack, in turn providing a blueprint of how stem cells may work. Source: How stem cells repair damage from heart attacks
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Using a mouse model, researchers demonstrated the formation of fear memory involves the strengthening of neural pathways between two brain areas: the hippocampus, which responds to a particular context and encodes it, and the amygdala, which triggers defensive behavior, including fear responses. Source: How associative fear memory is formed in the brain
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A new article shows people perform better in VR exercise games when they compete against a realistic avatar of themselves. Source: Buffed-up avatars deter us from exercising hard
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Fifty years ago, Monty Python’s famous sketch, ‘The Ministry of Silly Walks,’ first aired. The sketch pokes fun at the inefficiency of government bureaucracy. It opens with the Minister (John Cleese) walks in a rather unusual manner to his work, the Ministry of Silly Walks, where Mr. Pudey (Michael Palin) is waiting for him. Based […]
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