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Treating Hearing Loss Could Halt Dementia - Neuroscience News
health 2026/04/13 19:30:15

Treating Hearing Loss Could Halt Dementia - Neuroscience News

Does hearing surgery prevent dementia? New research shows that treating eardrum perforations and cholesteatoma reduces the elevated risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

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Viruses allegedly stolen from high-security lab cause stir in Brazil - Nature
health 2026/04/13 19:28:57

Viruses allegedly stolen from high-security lab cause stir in Brazil - Nature

The missing samples — reported to include chikungunya and dengue viruses — have been recovered, but questions linger over motive.

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Ancient Landscape Reveals Bones of Humans Who Lived 100,000 Years Ago - ScienceAlert
health 2026/04/13 19:01:16

Ancient Landscape Reveals Bones of Humans Who Lived 100,000 Years Ago - ScienceAlert

A monumental archaeological excavation in Africa has uncovered the lives of the humans who lived there 100,000 years ago.

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A Diarrhea-Causing Superbug Is on the Rise, Health Officials Warn - Gizmodo
health 2026/04/13 18:30:29

A Diarrhea-Causing Superbug Is on the Rise, Health Officials Warn - Gizmodo

Shigella bacteria are increasingly resisting all antibiotics that can easily treat them, a recent report shows.

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Heart Disease Is Preventable. So Why Does It Kill So Many of Us? - AOL.com
health 2026/04/13 16:43:06

Heart Disease Is Preventable. So Why Does It Kill So Many of Us? - AOL.com

“We have to stop treating cardiovascular disease as unexpected or inevitable,” writes Dr. Sadiya Khan.

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Postmitotic transcription and 3D regulation show locus-specific and differentiation-specific sensitivity to cohesin depletion - Nature
health 2026/04/13 16:14:06

Postmitotic transcription and 3D regulation show locus-specific and differentiation-specific sensitivity to cohesin depletion - Nature

Lee et al. deplete the cohesin component RAD21 in mouse embryonic stem cells. Most but not all chromatin loops fail to reform after mitosis, and transcriptional changes were minor, except during differentiation, where cohesin seems to have a more important ro…

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