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[ad_1] The risk of getting dementia may go up as you get older if you don’t get enough slow-wave sleep. Over-60s are 27 percent more likely to develop dementia if they lose just 1 percent of this deep sleep each year, a 2023 study found. Slow-wave sleep is the third stage of a human 90-minute

[ad_1] Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson’s disease from cell-to-cell in the brain. Promisingly, an FDA-approved cancer drug that targets another protein called Lag3 – which interacts with Aplp1 – blocks the spread in mice, suggesting a potential therapy may already

[ad_1] Nowadays, artificial lights ubiquitously illuminate our indoor and outdoor spaces. Artificial outdoor lights provide safety, convenience, and aesthetics, but excessive artificial light at night is called light pollution. Exposure to artificial outdoor light at night is associated with numerous detrimental health effects, including sleep disruption, obesity, depression, anxiety, memory dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and cancer, but

[ad_1] A new study suggests staying on top of your eye health could offer a simple avenue for reducing your risks of future brain problems. A team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health epidemiologist Jason Smith has found improvements to common vision problems could potentially prevent as many as one

[ad_1] Chronic blood shortages are driving a search for a universal blood system that would allow doctors to save more lives. Researchers may have just brought us a step closer, by creating miniscule silicon coats for donated blood cells to wear. Incredibly, the new nanotechnology allowed biomedical engineer Chuanyi Lei from South China University of