Blood stem cells develop through different stages to become fully mature red blood cells. This fundamental biologic process ...

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Our new collaborative study from Fudan University in China and the University of Cambridge in the U.K., published in Nature Mental Health, used a large sample of 181,990 participants from the UK ...

The human brain is white and gray in color because it makes its very own cholesterol. Neurosteroids offer exciting novel ...

Cholesterol metabolism in the brain. Current opinion in lipidology. 2001 Apr 1;12(2):105-12. Akk G, Bracamontes JR, Covey DF, Evers A, Dao T, Steinbach JH. Neuroactive steroids have multiple ...

Cortisol plays a key role in helping your body respond to stress, reduce inflammation, and regulate blood pressure, blood sugar, and metabolism. Some studies have found that stress ... The use of long ...

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A crucial molecule for brain health acts as a garbage collector of other fat molecules (lipids), despite also being a lipid itself. So for more than half a century, researchers have puzzled over how ...

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Scientists have discovered that tuberculosis disrupts glucose metabolism in the body. Scientists from the University of Leicester have discovered that tuberculosis disrupts glucose metabolism in ...