Dr Zoe Williams discusses visceral fat on This Morning We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info One drink, however, could help to reduce the level of visceral […]

A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel restrictions just as many had finally begun to ease. The risks of the variant, called omicron, are largely unknown. But the World Health Organization has called it a “variant of concern” and governments around the world are not waiting for scientists to better understand […]

Advisers to the World Health Organization are holding a special session Friday to flesh out information about a worrying new variant of the coronavirus that has been detected in South Africa, though a top expert says its impact on COVID-19 vaccines may not be known for weeks. The technical advisory group on the evolution of COVID-19 was meeting virtually to […]

We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Researchers found that doing a mix of light housework and more physically demanding chores gets the cogs in prime condition. […]

Every day, cytologists around the world use optical microscopes to analyze and classify samples of bone marrow cells thousands of times. This method to diagnose blood diseases was established more than 150 years ago, but it suffers from being very complex. Looking for rare but diagnostically important cells is both a laborious and time-consuming task. Artificial intelligence has the potential […]

Gary Lineker stars in Vision Express TV advert We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Your diet can help keep your vision strong and to reduce your […]

Is modern life making breast milk less beneficial and leaving babies prone to allergies? Women in traditional farming communities have milk ‘richer in good bacteria and antibodies’ Women living in traditional communities produce more beneficial breast milk The ‘farm-life effect’ protects their babies developing allergies, a study found And it is passed on by mothers to their babies through breast […]

Children’s National Hospital experts developed a new approach that discovered unique proteins in an individual tumor’s cells, which then helped scientists generate personalized T cells to target and kill tumors, according to a pre-clinical study published in Nature Communications. This effort is the first to create a new workflow for neoantigen identification that incorporates both genetic sequencing and protein identification […]

Southampton researchers have found that the link between smoking at the start of pregnancy and having a smaller baby may extend to future pregnancies. The findings showed that women who smoked at the start of their first pregnancy were more likely to have a baby born smaller than expected in their second pregnancy compared to non-smokers. This was even the […]

Even in the prime of our lives, while still healthy and clever, our brains may be secretly developing the deadly plaques and tangles of Alzheimer’s disease. The first sign of trouble is memory loss—and, by then, damage is done. But innovative new blood tests can now detect these hidden signs of disease, years before the onset of heartbreaking symptoms. The […]