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In additional experiments, the same bacterial fragment blocked the aggregation of IAPP (a protein involved in type 2 diabetes ...

Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

Faecal transplants have been used to treat a wide array of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson's ...

If you've been on social media lately – perhaps scrolling in the middle of the night, when you know you shouldn't but you ...

Most of the time they are killed by asphyxiation, either in open air or ice water. While this is a cost-effective way to kill fish en-mass, an international team of biologists, led by Cynthia ...

Researchers have discovered how a surface protein on brain cells, called Aplp1, can play a role in spreading material ...

We know microplastics are finding their way deep into our bodies, such is their ubiquity in the world around us, but we're ...

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One of the first brain cells shown to make insulin is the neurogliaform cell. These live in a brain area important for ...