A study from Hiroshima University found that when people were told to imagine their virtual bodies in pain, their brains resisted the illusion of ownership. Their findings could provide insights into why some people may struggle with feeling connected to their own bodies, particularly in contexts involving depersonalization or negative physical states.

Researchers at the Advanced Research Unit on Metabolism, Development & Aging (ARUMDA), in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, Mumbai and TIFR Hyderabad), have unveiled a comprehensive understanding of the harmful effects of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) on human health, using a preclinical mouse model that closely mimics human consumption patterns. The study, published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, sheds light on how chronic sucrose-water intake (10%) alters key physiological, molecular, and metabolic processes across various organs, driving the onset of diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

A research paper just published in Science China Life Sciences reports a gastric-adaptive hydrogen polysulfide microreactor (GAPSR), which can release a large amount of hydrogen polysulfide (H₂S_n, n≥2) and inactivate H. pylori glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) by interfering with electron transfer from glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP⁺). This discovery provides a new scheme for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection.