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(Photo: Buddha Kumar Shrestha/Unsplash)Data from several Alzheimer’s disease and gastrointestinal disorder studies appear to suggest the conditions are genetically linked. Researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) conducted a meta-analysis of several Alzheimer’s and gut health studies in an attempt to determine whether the two are associated. Each study involved the …

Obesity is rare in hunter-gatherer cultures. Nevertheless, dozens of handheld ‘Venus’ figurines — the oldest art sculptures of humans known and tend to be of women who have obesity or are pregnant — have been identified that date to Ice Age European hunter-gatherers from 38,000 to 14,000 years ago. In …

Gray hair has been linked with an increased risk of coronary artery disease in men, in a study presented this month at EuroPrevent 2017 in Malaga, Spain. According to Dr. Samuel and co-authors, patients at high risk of CAD should have regular check-ups to avoid early cardiac events by initiating …

A team of researchers at Linköping University in Sweden has identified two genomic regions and five candidate genes associated with dog’s human-directed social behaviors. Interestingly, four of these genes are also related to social behavior disorders in humans. The work by M.E. Persson et al is the first genome-wide study …

A large genome-wide association study of more than 560,000 people has identified 10 new genetic regions associated with the number of children we have during the course of our life, and the age at which we have our first child. Nicola Barban et al identified ten new areas of the …

Synaptic pruning is a little like sleep. We know both processes are important to healthy brain function, but we don’t know exactly how they happen, nor how to reliably treat problems in the system. Disruptions in the delicate process of synaptic pruning are associated with disorders like schizophrenia and autism, …

Image copyright Human Rights Watch Image caption Analysis of the images proves soldiers were in the area, HRW says New satellite images establish a link between the Burmese army and the burning of Rohingya Muslim villages, human rights campaigners say. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has analysed images of …

The Anonymous-linked hacking group 1775 Sec has now confirmed that their attack on Dropbox is a fake. While the group claims that the DDOS attack was real, the data breach claim was designed to troll the tech press. “That was some serious Lulz. We DDoS attack DropBox! After it’s down …