For Cancer Patients, The Remarkable Benefits Of Community
As cancer therapies become more complex, one of the biggest advances in care might not be a treatment at all
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How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
William Kaelin, Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” New therapies for cancer and conditions such as anemia are in the pipeline, based on these discoveries...
Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” They identified molecular machinery that regulates gene activity in response to changing levels of oxygen...
Is It Possible to Get Fit Fast?
Everybody wants to get that beach body right now or to run that 10k next month, but can you really get fit fast?
Does Eating Too Much Fiber Cause Mineral Deficiencies?
The Institute of Medicine hasn’t set an upper limit on fiber, meaning that there’s no amount at which it’s considered toxic. That doesn’t mean that an excess of fiber couldn’t make you uncomfortable...
The Importance of Forearm Strength and How to Build It
Do you have weak forearms? Is your lack of forearm strength holding you back? The Get-Fit Guy answers a listener’s question and gets to the bottom of this weakness
Brains of Blind People Adapt in Similar Fashion
The brains of those who are blind repurpose the vision regions for adaptive hearing, and they appear to do so in a consistent way.
Can Rabbits Help Unravel the Mystery of Female Orgasm?
A study suggests the phenomenon may have evolved from a mechanism for triggering ovulation
Personalized Nutrition: The Latest on DNA-Based Diets
What can our genes tell us about which diet will work best for us?
Real-Life Zombies
A zombie takeover is science fiction, right? Well, it turns out some zombies already exist in nature and “life” after brain death might not be so far-fetched
C-Section Babies Are Missing Key Microbes
A U.K. study provides the best evidence yet that the way infants are born can alter their microbiome—but the health effects are unclear
A Newly Identified Protein May Be the Key to Vanquishing the Common Cold
Inactivating this protein in human cells and mice provided immunity to a range of viruses, but an effective treatment is still a long way off
Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones
A protein released from bone is involved in triggering the body’s reaction to stress
New Clues to the Way We Metabolize Sugar
A gene that appeared sometime after humans began processing their food seems to protect some people from type 2 diabetes
What Can Genes Tell Us about Fitness?
Can understanding our genes help us get fit and healthy? Get-Fit Guy interviewed Dr. Dan Reardon of FitnessGenes to find out
Studying the Superhuman
An examination of sixth fingers hints at what our body—and mind—is capable of
A Clarification about Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
A recent Scientific American essay overlooked some important points
Exercise to Sleep Better (and Vice Versa!)
If you’re not sleeping well, you may not be reaching your life goals, let alone your fitness goals
The False Promise of Fish Oil Supplements
After decades of promises that they “may work” to reduce cardiovascular disease, the lack of a demonstrated benefit leads me to conclude that consumers are wasting their money...
Build a Blood-Flow Model
A medical science project from Science Buddies
