Credit: CC0 Public Domain Authorities in New South Wales and Victoria have been warning the public about worrying cases of heroin overdoses after people thought they had taken cocaine or…
Category: Health & Medicine
Those living with polio say don’t forget
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted…
Cannabis terpenes shown to prevent pain in new study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s common knowledge that many use cannabis and natural products to treat pain symptoms, especially as the nation reckons with the deadly consequences of the opioid…
Scientists cast new light on how fasting impacts the immune system
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research from The University of Manchester may reshape our understanding of what happens to the immune system when we fast. The study on mice shows…
Novel genomic screening tool enables precision reverse-engineering of genetic programming in cells
Schematic of Perturb-multiome’s biotinylation enrichment procedure to retrieve the identity of the sgRNA. Created in BioRender. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.ads7951 Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer…
Researchers combine 3D bioprinting with AI to personalize oral soft tissue grafts
The team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) utilises a 3D bioprinter to fabricate customised oral soft tissue grafts, integrating AI into the process, to optimise bioprinting parameters, enhance…
Exercise as an anti-aging intervention to avoid detrimental impact of mental fatigue
Credit: Monica Silvestre from Pexels Retired people who habitually exercise are more able to fight the impacts of mental fatigue, new research suggests. In a paper published in the Journal…
Pedometers suffice for measuring health-promoting physical activity, finds study
Credit: Journal of Internal Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1111/joim.20081 A basic pedometer can prove sufficient for measuring health-promoting physical activity, according to a study comparing pedometers with more complex devices. Simply…
Is low BMI harmful in old age?
Associations of body mass index trajectories with all-cause mortality stratified by sex and baseline age for older Chinese adults from Hong Kong’s Elderly Health Service Cohort. Credit: Journal of Epidemiology…
Organoid model integrates microglia to study inflammation in brain
Pink skies. Microglia (magenta) integrated into a retinal organoid. The cell nuclei of neurons are stained in blue. Credit: Schmied et al. / Journal of Neuroinflammation Organoids have revolutionized science…
