18+ hour, 18+ min ago   (275+ words) Children of centenarians had lower risks of death, heart disease, and high blood pressure, even after lifestyle differences were considered. If your parents lived to 100 and beyond, doesn’t that mean you might have inherited some of whatever was keeping them…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (609+ words) Three cohorts of people with a centenarian parent were studied in one of the largest pieces of research into longevity to date. People with a parent who lived to 100 are likely to live longer, no matter what their lifestyle is…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (55+ words) Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its treatment options have changed surprisingly little over the past two decades. Now, a review published in Medical Oncology argues that…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (676+ words) For the smallest and most fragile patients in intensive care, the difference between survival and decline often comes down to a few milliliters of oxygen. Preterm and term newborns who develop respiratory distress syndrome frequently need mechanical ventilation, and in…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (658+ words) Obesity has become one of the most stubborn public health challenges of the modern era, and the search for drugs that can blunt the body’s absorption of dietary fat remains a major focus of pharmaceutical research. Now, a team of…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (99+ words) Every day, billions of cells in the human body die in a controlled and deliberate fashion, a process that scientists have come to call regulated cell death. Far from being a simple collapse, many of these deaths culminate in a…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (69+ words) A receptor long viewed as one of the more enigmatic members of the lipid-sensing G protein-coupled receptor family is now coming into sharp molecular focus. New research published in Experimental & Molecular Medicine describes how structural snapshots of GPR84, captured in distinct…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (736+ words) Chronic hepatitis B virus infection remains one of the most stubborn immunological challenges in medicine, largely because the CD8+ T cells that should destroy infected liver cells gradually lose their killing power....

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (86+ words) Phosphorus is one of those elements that rarely makes headlines, yet civilization depends on it almost entirely. The world’s food supply is built on phosphate fertilizers, and those fertilizers are mined from phosphate rock, a finite resource concentrated in a…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (295+ words) Discovery could open new approach to liver cancer treatment image: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researcher Deepa Sathyaseelan, Ph.D., is the senior author of a new study in Hepatology that sheds light on a protein linked to liver cancer....