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  • Your everyday food may be rewriting your liver’s future and scientists say the risk builds quietly over time

    Your everyday food may be rewriting your liver’s future and scientists say the risk builds quietly over time

    The food choices people make day after day could be doing more than influencing weight or cholesterol. New scientific research suggests long-term dietary patterns, particularly diets high in fat, may slowly reprogram how the liver functions,…

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  • Nirogacestat hydrobromide approved to treat desmoid tumours  – GOV.UK

    Nirogacestat hydrobromide approved to treat desmoid tumours  – GOV.UK

    The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (7 January 2026) approved the medicine Nirogacestat hydrobromide (Ogsiveo) for the treatment of progressing desmoid tumours in adults. 

    Desmoid tumours are tumours…

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  • Study shows your genes determine how fast your DNA mutates with age

    Study shows your genes determine how fast your DNA mutates with age

    An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated over and over, become longer and more unstable as we age. The study found that common genetic variants can speed…

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  • Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer

    Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer

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    All experiments conducted in this study were approved by the MIT Committee on Animal Care or the MGH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Female B6 and female NSG mice 6–10 weeks of age were used. Animals were housed at ambient…

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  • Neuro-epithelial circuits promote sensory convergence and intestinal immunity

    Neuro-epithelial circuits promote sensory convergence and intestinal immunity

  • Gieseck, R. L. 3rd, Wilson, M. S. & Wynn, T. A. Type 2 immunity in tissue repair and fibrosis. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 18, 62–76 (2018).

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  • Unofficial third-party test reports chronic wasting disease in Ferry County mule deer

    Unofficial third-party test reports chronic wasting disease in Ferry County mule deer

    SPOKANE – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) received a private testing company report reflecting a positive chronic wasting disease (CWD) test result from a mule deer harvested in game management unit (GMU) 101 in Ferry…

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  • Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit

    Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit

    Generating the integrated IBD scRNA-seq atlas

    Previously published scRNA-seq datasets on CD and UC were used for integrative analysis2,9,11,13. The dataset of Smillie et al.2 was generated with colonic tissue biopsies obtained from 12 non-IBD…

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  • The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold

    The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold

    On average, the typical American contracts two to three colds per year between September and May, at an estimated cost of around $40 billion to the economy. Effective forms of treating or preventing colds have proven hard to come by, with the…

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  • How West Bedford Medical Clinic offers a glimpse of primary care’s future

    West Bedford Medical Clinic only accepts patients through the Need a Family Practice Registry. If you need a family doctor or nurse practitioner, please register at NeedAFamilyPractice.NSHealth.ca.

    When Dr. Akeem Adebayo arrived in Nova Scotia in…

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