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Fertility declines with age in most female mammals, but naked mole rats can develop new eggs as adults, enabling them to remain fertile throughout their lives A naked mole rat in the lab UPMC Unlike

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Being overweight is often linked to negatives in children’s physical health but how about to their cognitive health? A study published in PloS One suggests a link between excess weight in preschool ch

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New research in Psychology of Women Quarterly explores the relationship between how one presents themselves on social media platforms and their tendency to self-objectify. Researcher Shilei Chen and c

Scientists from The Ohio State University have a new theory about how the building blocks of life – the many proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids that compose every organism on Earth – ma

A stroke survivor has been able to use cutlery to cut food and feed herself for the first time in a decade, thanks to insertions of electricity into her spine. Heather Rendulic, who had a stroke in 2

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Ethics declaration Our research complies with the Local Ethics Review Board of the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza (approved on April 30, 2020, reference number: 131) and by the Biomedic

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Five years after getting newborn mice to regenerate the hair cells needed for hearing, researchers at the University of Rochester have now figured out how the process works — putting us closer to reve

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Elisabeth Mahase The BMJ A 19 month old child named Teddi has received life saving gene therapy treatment for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD)—a disorder that causes severe damage to the nervous sy

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