Precision insights can be found in wastewater
Scientists have developed a machine learning model that uses the assortment of microbes found in wastewater to tease out how many individual people they...
Blood-based metabolic signature outperforms standard method for predicting diet, disease risk
Researchers have found a method using molecular profiling and machine learning to develop blood-based dietary signatures that more accurately assess diet and predict the...
Increasing forest cover in the Eifel region 11,000 years ago resulted in the local...
Sediment cores obtained from Eifel maar sites provide insight into the presence of large Ice Age mammals in Central Europe over the past 60,000...
Chaos gives the quantum world a temperature
Two seemingly different areas of physics are related in subtle ways: Quantum theory and thermodynamics. How can the laws of thermodynamics arise from the...
Patients with treatment resistant depression at higher risk of early death
Patients with treatment resistant depression have a 23 per cent higher risk of death than other depressed patients. They also have twice as much...
Gut microbes can boost the motivation to exercise
Some species of gut-dwelling bacteria activate nerves in the gut to promote the desire to exercise, according to a study in mice. The study...
Shedding light on photosynthesis at sea
Using cryogenic electron microscopy, a research team has revealed, for the first time, the structures and binding environments of pigments bound to a protein...
Longevity treatments do not slow aging
Three approaches with a reputation for slowing aging processes have proven largely ineffective. For their study, researchers developed a new method to measure aging,...
Researchers map deep brain stimulation target for Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the fifth leading cause of death in adults over 65 years old. While many potential treatments for the neurodegenerative disease...
Intermittent fasting may reverse type 2 diabetes, according to study
After an intermittent fasting diet intervention, patients achieved complete diabetes remission, defined as an HbA1c (average blood sugar) level of less than 6.5% at...
