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Institution of Stuart Phillips, the review's most prominent critic.
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McMaster University researchers report that one flu or COVID infection sped motor decline in animal models of ALS. The work points to respiratory infection as an accelerant of the disease that treatment can blunt, but so far every result comes from animals.
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A PNAS study compared predicted tail fiber structures for phages tested on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and found the broader-spectrum ones differ from each other where they touch the bacterial pilus. Dozens of database relatives fit the same pattern.
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By pulling DNA out of annually layered mud, a team rebuilt 1,000 years of plants, animals, bacteria and fungi at the lake proposed as the Anthropocene's marker, confirming decades of earlier work and adding cattle the older methods never saw.
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McMaster researchers report that the appetite hormone cut liver inflammation and fibrosis in MASH mice regardless of food intake, body weight or liver fat. All of it is preclinical.
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A review of 350 papers argues that cutting dietary protein extends healthspan. Physiologists say the human evidence for the over-65s, the sedentary and GLP-1 users runs the other way.
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