A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created a new sensor to detect sodium ions in breast milk, a biomarker of elevated mammary permeability, a hallmark of subclinical mastitis that may contribute to milk supply issues and hinder breastfeeding in new mothers.
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Medical Xpress is a web-based medical and health news service that is part of the renowned Science X network. Based on the years of experience as a Phys.org medical research channel, started in April 2011, Medical Xpress became a separate website. Branching out with Phys.org's monthly 15 million readership, Medical Xpress features the most comprehensive coverage in medical research and health news in the fields of neuroscience, cardiology, cancer, HIV/AIDS, psychology, psychiatry, dentistry, genetics, diseases and conditions, medications and more.
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The mobile phone is often blamed for drowning us in information and stealing our attention.
Study finds our attention shifts influenced by rewards, not habits
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Skin pigmentation may act as a "sponge" for some medications, potentially influencing the speed with which active drugs reach their intended targets, a pair of scientists report in a perspective article published in the journal Human Genomics.
How your skin tone could affect how well your medication works
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Cytokines are regulatory proteins involved in cell proliferation, differentiation, inflammation, and hematopoiesis.
Study shows new drug suppresses systemic inflammatory response syndrome resulting from bypass surgery
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Patients shouldn't rely on AI-powered search engines and chatbots to always give them accurate and safe information on drugs, conclude researchers in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety, after finding a considerable number of answers were wrong or potentially harmful.
Don't rely on AI chatbots for accurate, safe drug information, warns study
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Being a teenager is hard, confusing—and crucially important. Scientists studying teenage socializing have found that teenage friendships could lay essential foundations for well-being in later life, and that not just the kinds of friendships teenagers experience but the timing of those friendships is critical.
Different types of teenage friendships critical to well-being as we age, scientists find
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Breakdancers may be at risk of developing a condition caused by repeatedly doing a cardinal move of their practice and performance—the headspin—warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
Breakdancers may risk 'headspin hole' caused by repetitive headspins, doctors warn
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Trinity College Dublin researchers based at St James's Hospital have provided important insights into the behavior and metabolic function of a previously largely unknown but crucial natural killer (NK) immune cell resident in the lungs.
Natural killer cells that live in the lungs can rapidly respond to a sugar rush, making them especially effective
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Immunotherapy, using a patient's own immune system to treat disease, has shown promise in some patients with cancer but has not worked in most.
Disrupting Asxl1 gene prevents T-cell exhaustion to improve immunotherapy, researchers discover
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A Ludwig Cancer Research study has punctured a longstanding assumption about the source of the most common type of DNA mutation seen in the genome—one that contributes to many genetic diseases, including cancer.
New study challenges longstanding assumption about the cause of the genome's most common mutation
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