Health & Medicine

Health & Medicine

American Association for Cancer Research

Anticancer power of strawberries, human papillomavirus linked to lung cancer and more news from the recent cancer research meeting.

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Body & Brain

Food tastes less fatty to overweight people, plus an itch protein and thirsty rats in this week’s news.

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Gut microbes may foster heart disease

In breaking down a common dietary fat, helpful bacteria initiate production of an artery-hardening compound, mouse experiments suggest.

Health & Medicine

Beer, bugs, DNA linked to stomach cancer

Guzzlers who have a particular genetic variant and an unnoticed bacterial infection are at high risk, a European study finds.

Life

Sugar fuels growth of insulin-making cells

Mouse study suggests a new strategy for treating diabetes.

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Meditators can concentrate the hurt away

Experiment participants felt less pain while practicing mindfulness.

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Breast milk may harbor cancer clues

Analysis could provide a noninvasive means for testing risk in women, an early-stage study shows.

Humans

Brain’s mirror system loves the robot

Experiments that shed light on how the "monkey see, monkey do" part works may suggest why we feel sad for Wall-E.

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Heart drug may fight prostate cancer

Digitalis inhibits the common malignancy in lab tests, and long-term users are less likely to develop the disease, a study shows.

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Body & Brain

Thank your mom for your big brain, plus contagious itching and phobia therapy in this week’s news.

Life

Great-grandpa’s genes gone, effects stay

Removing an obesity-preventing scrap of DNA from a mouse lineage doesn’t prevent descendants from reaping its slimming benefits for generations.

Humans

Just breathing in Iraq can be hazardous

Poor air quality is an added danger for troops, testing indicates.