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Lisa Jarvis

Lisa Jarvis

The Japan Times

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We’re finally starting to understand the pregnant brain

"Pregnancy brain” is often treated as a punchline, but a new study shows it’s a stunning metamorphosis that scientists are just beginning to grasp...

29.11.2024 30

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Lisa Jarvis

RFK Jr.’s junk science will put every American at risk

17.11.2024 30

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Lisa Jarvis

Google's DeepMind Nobel Prize showcases AI’s medical potential

The recent awarding of the Nobel Prize in chemistry is an incredible vote of confidence in the potential for artificial intelligence to transform the...

15.10.2024 40

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Nobel Prize for medicine recognizes microRNA — and curiosity

In a climate where so much time and energy is spent trying to tackle human disease, Monday’s Nobel Prize in the category of physiology or medicine...

11.10.2024 40

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Boys need the HPV cancer vaccine as much as girls

What if I told you that there was a cancer vaccine that could potentially spare your child not one, but six kinds of cancer? You’d jump at the...

23.09.2024 50

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Inventing medicines is one of the most exciting uses of AI

Alphabet’s artificial intelligence subsidiary, Google DeepMind, has yet again knocked the socks off scientists with its latest iteration of...

12.06.2024 20

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Lisa Jarvis

The bird flu outbreak brings more questions than answers

As the magnitude of the bird flu outbreak in cattle becomes clearer, so does the need to quickly get a firmer grip on some basic facts. Namely, how...

09.05.2024 90

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Bird flu in cows demands vigilance, not panic

The bird flu keeps catching the world off guard by finding new ways to spread — this time finding an unexpected host in cows. As of April 4, the...

17.04.2024 20

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Sex differences could be key to the successful treatment of long COVID

Among the many mysteries about long COVID, one of the most vexing has been why women seem to experience the condition more often and more severely...

17.04.2024 20

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Lisa Jarvis

This brain cancer breakthrough should excite you

A flurry of new studies suggest scientists are finally figuring out how to harness the immune system to attack a ruthless form of brain cancer. While...

28.03.2024 50

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Lisa Jarvis

Ancient DNA could be hiding all kinds of health secrets

In a newly published paper in Nature, part of an impressive series of insights about ancient peoples, researchers compared thousands of ancient and...

08.03.2024 30

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A promising turn in the quest to treat long COVID

A new study just published recently in Science makes a compelling case that people with long COVID have a chronic imbalance in their immune response....

30.01.2024 20

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Lisa Jarvis

Post-roe America’s national shame: 65,000 forced pregnancies

It’s now been about a year and a half since the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. Over that time, new data...

26.01.2024 20

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Targeted cancer drugs finally live up to the hype

Cancer drugs that work like heat-seeking missiles to deliver chemicals directly to tumors are having a bit of a moment. Pharmaceutical companies, in...

29.12.2023 20

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