Medicine & Health

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30-Jul-2025

Black Death offers window into how childhood malnutrition affects adult health

University of Colorado at Boulder
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by anthropologist Sharon DeWitte at CU Boulder finds hints that experiencing malnutrition as a infant or child doesn't necessarily harm the health of humans in adulthood—although the relationship is complicated.

Journal

Science Advances

30-Jul-2025

Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff

Rutgers University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Increasing solar power generation in the United States by 15% could lead to an annual reduction of 8.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to researchers at Rutgers, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stony Brook University.

Journal

Science Advances

30-Jul-2025

Weathering change: Fewer cold fatalities, more heat emergencies in California

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rising temperatures in California are causing fewer cold-related deaths, outweighing heat-related deaths. But hotter temperatures are increasing emergency department visits, placing a greater burden on the healthcare system, report UC San Diego and Stanford University researchers.

Journal

Science Advances

Funder

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

30-Jul-2025

 

Scientists say protein separates message-bearing ‘bubbles’ at intersection between brain cells, deepening understanding of cognition

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein’s special role in getting brain cells to communicate at the right time and place in experiments with genetically engineered mice.

Journal

Nature Neuroscience

Funder

National Institutes of Health, Air Force Research Laboratory, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Award, National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, Wellcome Trust, John Fell Fund, La Caixa Foundations, EU-Horizon 2020 MIA-Portugal

30-Jul-2025

 

Unlocking the mystery of purple leaves: The genetic secrets of tea plants

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

Purple tea, known for its vivid color and health benefits, is gaining global attention, but the genetic mechanism behind its purple leaves remained unclear. 

Journal

Horticulture Research

30-Jul-2025

More than telehealth: Social factors shape heart health

University of Mississippi
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers led by two University of Mississippi professors is working to unlock patterns and causes of the No. 1 killer of Mississippians: heart disease.

Journal

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

30-Jul-2025

 

Seeing the unseen: New hyperspectral-metabolomics pipeline accelerates salt-tolerant crop screening

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

A research team has developed a powerful two-stage screening pipeline that integrates hyperspectral imaging and metabolomic profiling to rapidly and accurately identify salt-tolerant crop mutants before visible symptoms appear.

Journal

Plant Phenomics