Lipid accumulation drives cellular senescence in dopaminergic neurons

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new research perspective titled Lipid accumulation drives cellular senescence in dopaminergic neurons has been published in Aging. As highlighted in the Abstract of this perspective,…

Archaeologists make new discoveries frozen in glacial ice

“Secrets of the Ice” is a glacier archaeology program, dedicated to studying glacial ice patches which contain preserved artefacts and organic objects. As part of the 2024 season, archaeologists are…

Giant stone panel with over 100 Maya glyphs discovered

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered a giant stone panel carved onto the floor of a sacred pool at Cobá. Cobá is a Late…

FDA rejects MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD treatment – a drug researcher explains the challenges psychedelics face

Drugmaker Lykos Therapeutics announced on Aug. 9, 2024, that the Food and Drug Administration declined to approve the company’s application for the use of MDMA-assisted therapy in the treatment of…

Routine lab tests are not a reliable way to diagnose long COVID, finds study

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported study has found that routine lab tests may not be useful in making a long COVID diagnosis for people who…

Brain biomarker in blood sample predicts stroke, researchers demonstrate

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University have demonstrated that a simple blood test that reflects brain health can predict which people are most at…

Researchers urge Medicare coverage of driving assessments for at-risk, older adults

Credit: Tim Samuel from Pexels In 2020, approximately 48 million licensed drivers were older than 65 years. Within this age group, car crashes led to 7,480 deaths and 149,881 non-fatal…

Dementia risk factors identified in new global report are all preventable – addressing them could reduce dementia rates by 45%

Nearly half of all dementia cases could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing 14 possible risk factors, including vision loss and high cholesterol. That is the key finding of…

Global study predicts increases in cancer cases and deaths among men, with widening disparities

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In an analysis of 30 cancer types among men, investigators uncover substantial disparities in cancer cases and deaths by age and countries’ economic status—disparities that are…

Gen X and millennials at greater risk of 17 types of cancer compared to previous generations

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A worrying new study by the American Cancer Society has revealed that generation X and millennials are at more risk of developing many types of cancer…