The Amazing Leaf Extract Offering Fresh Promise in Cancer Care
Dr. Sahar AlGhamdi and Dr. Ishrat Rahman found in lab tests that an ethanol leaf extract of Ziziphus nummularia reduced breast cancer cell survival and may act by blocking tubulin.
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Food as Medicine: A Study of the Impacts of Fruits and Vegetables on Chronic Kidney Disease
Dr. Meera Patel's team found that adding fruit and vegetables to the diets of African American adults with kidney disease brought slight health gains and kept harmful metabolites from rising.
Making the Blind See with Ultrasensitive Algal Photoreceptors
Professor Sukhdev Roy's team used theoretical modelling to predict that the light-sensitive protein ChRmine and its variants could drive optogenetic vision restoration under ordinary ambient and broadband light.
Green Tea Meets Vitamin E in a Powerful Health Breakthrough
Professor Kiyoshi Fukuhara's team linked a planar green tea catechin to Trolox, a vitamin E-like antioxidant, making a compound that neutralised free radicals better than either part.
Eating Dark Chocolate Could Be the Secret to Fighting Diabetes
Dr. Qi Sun's team found that people in large long-term US studies who often ate dark chocolate had a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, while milk chocolate showed no such link.
Complete Switch to E-Cigarettes Shows Measurable Health Gains: Findings from 8-Year PATH Study
Dr. Xiaona Liu's team found in US survey data that adults who only vaped reported slightly better physical well-being than smokers, while people using neither product fared best.
Two Rare Cancers Found Together in One Lymph Node Shock Doctors
Maaweya Jabareen and colleagues report a man with lung adenocarcinoma and small lymphocytic lymphoma side by side in the same lymph node, a combination they say had not been described before.
A New Fat-Burning Discovery That Could Transform Weight Loss Forever
Professor Yong Xu and Dr. Jonathan Long's team found that ketone-derived molecules made through a newly identified metabolic pathway reduced food intake and body weight in obese mice.
Doctor’s New Health Tech Innovation Catches Deadly Heart Issues Early
Dr. Kam Cheong Wong's community screening programme found that older people recording their heart rhythm on handheld single-lead ECG devices had atrial fibrillation detected more often than with routine doctor visits.
This Simple Food List Could Help You Prevent Major Illnesses
Professor Jennifer Di Noia's classification ranks fruits and vegetables by essential nutrients per calorie, placing leafy greens such as watercress, spinach and kale at the top of the list.
What Really Drives Smokers to Switch to Safer Choices or Quit
Dr. Xiaona Liu's team used machine learning on long-term survey data from American smokers to find the factors linked with quitting, switching to e-cigarettes, or using both.
Are More Girls Born When the World Is Under Stress?
Peyton Cleaver and Dr. Amy Non found that the share of boys born in the United States did not fall in the early pandemic months, though it differed by mothers' backgrounds.