Health & Medicine

Can a Simple Vitamin Protect Against Alzheimer’s?

Experiments with tiny roundworms give researchers hope. Caenorhabditis elegans is a tiny worm that lives in the soil, but can also be found a lot...

Dutch scientists unravel the mystery of identical twins

For the first time, researchers have found a biological cause for the birth of identical twins. And that is a breakthrough, says researcher Dorret Boomsma....

Artificial intelligence may help find SARS-CoV-2 successor

Which viruses should we fear and fight tooth and nail to prevent another pandemic? Scientists often find it difficult to estimate, but artificial...

Pandemic has a major impact on life expectancy

Some countries have not seen life expectancy decline as sharply since World War II as it is today due to COVID-19. According to a new...

Afraid of spiders? Your smartphone can help!

Scientists have a augmented realityapp developed with which people with arachnophobia can tackle their fear. And that app works! Spider fear or arachnophobia is...

Is the ‘placebo effect’ just a myth?

Some people deliberately take placebo pills in the belief that they will get them better. But researchers warn against this risky development. Many people...

‘Eating too much is not the main cause of obesity’

According to researchers, it's actually the other way around: the process of gaining weight causes us to get hungry and therefore eat too much. The...

Technology behind the corona vaccine may also make a difference in the fight against cancer

Scientists are building on the success of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to also develop a vaccine against cancer. Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine using the...

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