Health & Medicine

How diet affects tumor growth

Cancer tumors are hungry (Image: nopparit / iStock) In order to grow, tumors depend on nutrients such as sugar and fats. Diets are therefore...

Lung COVID has an official definition since last week, but at the same time remains puzzling

For example, it is still unclear why it affects so many corona patients, while others escape the dance. Meanwhile, it is becoming increasingly clear that...

Your brain is as unique as your fingerprint

The 'wiring' in your brain is so unique that you can be recognized by it. In the 17th century, Italian physician Marcello Malpighi discovered the...

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...

Your brain is as unique as your fingerprint

The 'wiring' in your brain is so unique that you can be recognized by it. In the 17th century, Italian physician Marcello Malpighi discovered the...

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...

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