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Americans aren't getting to bed on time axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosvitals
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Meet BOSS, the largest discovered
structure in the universe so far, a wall of
galaxies at over a billion light-years
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The protein craze: scientists talk supplements — and who should take them nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking. For every 1.3 degrees C one loses 0.02 to 0.03 years of life on average. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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#AlzheimersDisease Genetic Risk May Be Effectively Countered By Adhering to a Mediterranean diet. The diet modulated dementia-related metabolites in APOE4 carriers. medpagetoday.com/neurology/a…
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This is a Sputnik moment for biotech!
“We need to consider extraordinary measures to save our industry, and prevent biotech going the way of the semiconductor industry” masslive.com/news/2025/08/bi…
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Risk of colon cancer slashed by eating specific types of vegetables.
Broccoli and other cruciferous veggies could slash colon cancer risk by 17%
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Powell Sends Strongest Signal Yet That Interest Rate Cuts Are Coming nytimes.com/2025/08/22/busin… via @NYTimes
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Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push statnews.com/2025/08/21/supr… via @statnews
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The final results from @ElicioTx AMPLIFY trial are in @NatureMedicine reinforcing what has been seen with other platforms - a robust T cell response to tumor antigens post-vaccine is associated with delayed #PancreaticCancer recurrence after surgery.
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Alcohol consumption among adults in the U.S. is at the lowest level on record, a survey by Gallup. Most Americans, for the first time, view even moderate drinking as harmful.
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A company that has Donald Trump Jr. on its board debuted a new service to help pharmaceutical companies launch direct sales platforms, one week after President Donald Trump demanded that drugmakers create similar systems bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby. How cool is that! nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response. Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins. in people. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect @NIH budget. I am confident that the House will agree. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Eating ultra-processed foods makes it harder to lose weight. Participants lost more than twice as much weight — 1.84 kilograms on average, compared with 0.88 kilograms — while following the minimally processed food diet. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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#Alzheimers: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice. Since LiCl activates WNT signaling, this finding aligns with our Shim et al Nature Aging MS showing that TERT/b-catenin activation impedes AD pathological progression and preserves cognition. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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