Health & Medicine

Some people may be naturally resistant to COVID-19

It may explain why some people, despite being close to corona patients, did not get COVID-19. Scientists and doctors are still puzzled as to why...

Immunization effects are inheritable

The characteristics of a living being are also influenced by certain switch molecules on the DNA. (Image: kirtypargeter / iStock) Epigenetic inheritance also shapes...

Stutterers don’t stutter if they think they are alone

And that provides new insight into why stuttering happens: the idea that someone is listening may play a key role. Worldwide there are about...

Brain immune cells with sugar starvation

New look at the brain. (Image: Henrik5000 / iStock) At the onset of a neurodegenerative disease, the brain's immune cells called microglia take up...

Distorted perception in the brain scanner

Illustration of the effect of an MRI scan on spatial attention: the red dots represent visual stimuli that a person increasingly perceives on the...

New approach to the side effects of antibiotics

How do antibiotics affect our intestinal flora? (Image: Isabel Romero Calvo / EMBL) Antibiotics not only fight pathogens, they also damage the beneficial bacteria...

Tuberculosis deaths are on the rise for the first time in more than a decade

According to researchers, it is a worrying side effect of the introduced corona lockdowns. A prediction made by researchers at the start of the corona...

Scientists discover why wisdom teeth are taking so long

Most don't get them until around the age of eighteen, while they get through much earlier with our closest relative the chimpanzee. What's...

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