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Researchers have recently discovered our 45th blood typePhotoAlto/Alamy IN 2023, a paper was published in the journal Blood that ended a mystery stretching back four decades. It detailed the existence…
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Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
To keep IL-12 inside tumors, scientists at Strand designed a set of instructions called a genetic circuit that tells the…
Bacteria Responsible For Acne Were Genetically Modified to Treat It Instead : ScienceAlert
Zits are the pits, shattering anyone's confidence in a radiant pustule of pain. So the idea that the same bacterium…
Megalodon was nothing like a giant great white shark
The real megalodon may have been longer and slimmer than it appears in this illustrationCatmando/Shutterstock Megalodon, the ancient shark often…
Asthma Drug Still Being Prescribed to Kids Despite Potential Mental Health Risks
In 1998 an asthma and allergy drug called montelukast hit the U.S. market under the name Singulair. In the years…
Cryptographers Are Getting Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.We all know to be careful about the details we share…
Nearly 1 in 5 Online Health Tests ‘Quackery’. Here’s How to Avoid Them. : ScienceAlert
Many of us have done countless rapid antigen tests (RATs) over the course of the pandemic. Testing ourselves at home…
Mounting evidence shows daily multivitamins keep you sharp as you age
It isn’t known which components of multivitamins are responsible for cognitive benefitsAsiaVision/Getty Images Taking a daily multivitamin slows the rate…
Ice Fishing Turns Deadly as World Warms
CLIMATEWIRE | MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday, Richard Gadbois, 80, did what he had done countless times on freezing January days in…
Why the Polar Vortex Is Bad for Balloon Artists
It's been crazy cold this week, even down where I live in Louisiana, thanks to an outbreak of a polar…
