Digestion Makes One Age: The Downside of a Meal
Professor Geert Schmid-Schönbein's team found that in older rats, digestive enzymes leaked from a weakened gut into organs and damaged tissue, and an enzyme blocker reduced this.
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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.
Tracking cancer-fighting immune cells with advanced MRI technology
Dr. Fanny Chapelin's team used fluorine-based MRI to follow macrophages gathering in mouse breast and colon tumours after radiation, revealing different immune responses between the cancer types.