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Our skin protects us from everyday mechanical stresses, like friction, cuts, and impacts. A key part of this function—standing as a bulwark against the outside world—is the skin’s amazing ability to regenerate and heal. But […]

McGill University researchers have engineered a new hydrogel that shows early promise as a treatment for people with vocal cord injuries.This post was originally published on this site

Researchers have shown that young rats fed a ketogenic diet—a diet with high fat and low carbohydrates—are protected from the lasting experience of pre‑natal stress. This work, which has not yet been confirmed in humans, […]

Researchers led by Hokto Kazama at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered how animals sense whether things smell pleasant or unpleasant, one of the abilities that allow us to appreciate […]

The body’s tissues can get injured in many ways, but while some injuries heal perfectly, others don’t heal at all. A cut in the skin, for example, usually heals all on its own, while internal […]

Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are insidious. They can evade the immune defense and antiviral drugs by becoming “latent.” In this state, they are largely invisible and unassailable. As long as these dormant viruses persist, there […]