Philip R. O. Payne, PhD, director of the Institute for Informatics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis,
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New research identifies biological causes of muscle weakness in later life
A new largescale genetic analysis has found biological mechanisms that contribute to making people more susceptible to muscle weakness in
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Male sex, BMI, smoking and depression all increase biological age
A ‘biological age’ score predicts that being male, overweight, a smoker and having depression all contribute to biological aging, a
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These star-shaped brain cells may help us understand depression’s biological roots
People with depression have a distinguishing feature in their brains: They have fewer astrocytes, a type of star-shaped brain cell,
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An unexpected, and novel, target for prostate cancer—our biological clock
Our biological or circadian clock synchronizes all our bodily processes to the natural rhythms of light and dark. It’s no
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Sleep disorder sufferers may have help from mechanism regulating biological clock
Recent sleep surveys show that Singaporeans are among the world’s most sleep-deprived people. Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and
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