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Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a blood test that can identify early signs of Alzheimer’s ...

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A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and ...

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Tirzepatide (trade name Zepbound) promoted greater weight loss in individuals with obesity than did semaglutide (trade name ...

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For the study, published in The EMBO Journal, the team used a technique called advanced light-sheet microscopy on a specially ...

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