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Why Scientists Are Linking More Diseases to Light at Night
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- Marta Zaraska
Light during sleep has been linked to diabetes, CV disease, strokes, or brain aneurysms.
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The Appendix: Is It ’Useless,’ or a Safe House and Immune Training Ground?
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
It turns out the appendix, as easy to dismiss as it is to remove, may have a vital purpose after all, including protecting us from...
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MDMA therapy for loneliness? Researchers say it could work
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
MDMA “led to a robust increase in feelings of connection” among people socializing in a controlled setting.
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Unlocking the riddle of REM sleep
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
In general, as long as you get enough sleep in the first place, you will get enough REM. “You can’t control the amount of REM sleep you have.”
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The truth about the ‘happy hormone’: Why we shouldn’t mess with dopamine
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
Since its first synthesis in the early 20th century, dopamine has often been misunderstood and oversimplified – and it seems the story is...
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Limiting antibiotic overprescription in pandemics: New guidelines
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
The COVID-19 pandemic brought an alarming increase in antimicrobial resistance in hospitals, with infections and deaths caused by resistant...
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Ancient human teeth revise the history of microbial evolution
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
Here was the DNA of Yersinia pestis lodged in the teeth of two farmers, a woman and a man, who died in Scandinavia before the plague’s...
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Dracunculiasis – guinea worm disease – is close to eradication. But will we ever reach the finish line?
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
The dracunculiasis’ impact on work and earning capacity is so profound, in fact, that in Mali the infliction is...
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The role of probiotics in mental health
- Author:
- Marta Zaraska
The evidence for the effects of probiotics so far is the strongest for depression, says Viktoriya Nikolova, of Kings College London.