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In 262 patients across five European countries, every extra 1,000 daily steps was associated with roughly 5 per cent lower odds of a flare-up — and home air pollution did not change the benefit.

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are told to stay active and told that polluted air damages their lungs. For anyone living beside a busy road, thos...


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An unbiased whole-brain search led Mount Sinai researchers to the anterior hypothalamic nucleus, where activity scaled how harshly mice reacted to threats — and where silencing one input erased the effect of prior stress.

Two people live through the same difficult event and come out differently. One carries lasting symptoms; the other does not. One of the f...


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An INRAE-coordinated study reports that the bacterium behind mastitis builds its envelope from milk lipids rather than making its own, tripling its thickness and raising its tolerance to the antibiotics used to treat the infection.

Mastitis — inflammation of the mammary gland, usually from bacterial infection — is one of the most common complications of bre...


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Researchers rebuilt the gene annotation of Acanthamoeba from 52 per cent accuracy to 98 per cent, uncovering roughly 300 mitochondrial proteins with no human or yeast counterpart — a shortlist of drug targets for an infection that current drugs barely touch.

Acanthamoeba is a free-living amoeba found in soil and water that occasionally finds its wa...


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Eleven- and twelve-year-olds who walked more had fewer mental health symptoms a year later, with no sign of the benefit levelling off — and slightly thicker tissue in two brain regions that partly explained the link.

Among 5,515 American adolescents who wore a Fitbit for three weeks around the age of 11 or 12, those who walked the least had the most mental ...


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