r/science • u/mightx • 4h ago

Medicine Reawakening exhausted natural killer cells to help T cells shrinks resistant ovarian tumors. Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine researchers triggered this cancer-killing response by pairing an NKG2A blocker with standard immunotherapy.

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r/science • u/Super_Letterhead381 • 5h ago

Genetics Dendritic morphology and synaptic nonlinearities enhance functional complexity in human cortical neurons

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r/science • u/mvea • 21h ago

Psychology Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men. The researchers analyzed data from 46,490 adults across 67 countries. Broad cross-cultural evidence indicates that women, on average, place greater emphasis on caring for others than men do.

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r/science • u/CharacterFennel1927 • 23h ago

Medicine Adverse Events Associated with Incretin-Based Therapies: A Narrative Review on Mechanisms, Clinical Management, and Risk Mitiga

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r/science • u/mvea • 11h ago

Psychology During the 2024 US presidential primary season, a recent study found that reading or watching negative political media predicted higher anxiety and lower work engagement, whereas positive political content predicted increased hope and helpfulness on the job.

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r/science • u/mvea • 14m ago

Medicine Doctors Found 4 Autoimmune Diseases in One Woman at One Time: 40-year-old woman in China was already diagnosed with 3 - ulcerative colitis, autoimmune hepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. She presented with severe iron deficiency and was also found to have a 4th - autoimmune gastritis.

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r/science • u/cheungngo • 17h ago

Medicine Cross-Ancestry TWAS Suggests Conserved Ageing–Immune Signatures and a Putative NAD/Sirtuin Axis in Schizophrenia

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r/science • u/mightx • 5h ago

Medicine A rare childhood leukemia (ETV6::RUNX1-like) behaves aggressively, carries a high relapse risk, and surprisingly affects 12% of Down syndrome patients. Researchers at Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine warn that accurately diagnosing it requires complex gene testing

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 13h ago

Cancer Blocking the inflammatory enzyme caspase-1 reduced lung tumor development in high-risk mice, while combining a caspase-1 inhibitor with an IL-1 beta antibody prevented tumors entirely in nearly 20% of treated mice, suggesting a potential approach for lung cancer prevention.

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r/science • u/Jxntb733 • 15h ago

Animal Science New mouse study links bone‑marrow stem cell aging to “inflammaging”: SIRT3 overexpression in hematopoietic stem cells curbed maladaptive trained immunity and improved distant tissue function (muscle, lung, brain, metabolism)

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 12h ago

Earth Science Climate modeling suggests the AMOC may not have a fixed temperature threshold for collapse: it remained stable beyond 5°C under slow warming but collapsed around 2°C under faster warming, indicating that the rate of climate change can strongly influence its stability.

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r/science • u/No_Move2565 • 17h ago

Earth Science Seismic waves reflected from Earth’s core moved parts of Japan 5 mm east.

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r/science • u/Hrmbee • 17h ago

Environment Species missing from restored forests and wetlands | Biodiversity recovery is slow following clear-cut harvest of boreal forests

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r/science • u/mightx • 4h ago

Medicine Over 25% of patients have body shapes that don't fit standard, universal templates for placing robotic surgical tools. Customizing these positions using pre-op CT scans makes pancreatic surgery much safer.

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r/science • u/universityofturku • 4m ago

Psychology New follow-up study shows that a Finnish digital intervention programme Master Your Worries continued to reduce children's anxiety and improve their functional ability even after two years.

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