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sciencealert.com is cited in 16 current Clarity Today stories, all on the Science desk. Its coverage most often reaches stories on Alzheimer's disease, Animal longevity, and Antifungal resistance. Clarity Today first cited it in this window on September 15, 2026 and most recently on October 4, 2026. Clarity Today polls its registered feed directly.
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University of Sao Paulo and Auckland teams found that a breathing-control brain region, the pFL, can tighten blood vessels in rats. They suggest the circuit could help explain why about 40 percent of medicated patients still have uncontrolled blood pressure.
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Michigan State researchers say one dose of CaBP4 gene therapy improved whippets' vision and rebuilt retinal synapses, with gains lasting up to three years. It shows adult retinal wiring can still be remodelled, so far only in dogs.
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A USC-led reconstruction from a core drilled in 2000 puts the lake's two giant freshwater phases at about 19,000 years between them. The shallow, salty lake held for the rest of the 236,000-year record.
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John Cryan's lab at University College Cork found only the decaf half of 31 coffee drinkers improved on two memory tests. Cryan suspects gut microbes, but the blinded trial ties them to the result without showing they caused it.
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King's College London researchers say urolithin A, a gut-bacteria product of pomegranates, improved heart function in mice by up to 80 percent. It points to a new route for treating a common, hard-to-treat heart failure, though so far only in animals and lab-grown tissue.
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Canadian researchers scanning 24 people with long COVID found fewer dopamine nerve endings in the striatum, a shortfall tied to a quarter of symptom variance. The result gives drug trials a dopamine hypothesis to test, though the scan reads a protein marker that stands in for the neurons themselves.
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Jesse Poganik's Harvard group reports that donor hearts shifted toward their recipients' biological age in mice and in 11 human transplants. The bioRxiv preprint has not been peer reviewed, so it is enough to question the under-45 donor preference but not to rewrite it.
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University of Arizona researchers argue that older brains move memory work from the hippocampus to the frontal cortex as an adaptive reorganization. The paper reinterprets earlier studies and adds no new data, so the idea still awaits a direct test.
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Deakin University's blind tasters preferred day-old butter chicken in nearly 64% of comparisons, the only one of four dishes to win as a leftover. Scored on their own, none of the four rated differently fresh or reheated, so the answer depends on how the question is put.
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Chemist Michael Hill and surgeon Brian Wong reshaped 10 isolated rabbit corneas to a target focus using a platinum lens and a small current. The method removes no tissue, and so far the evidence is a conference talk on eyes taken out of the animals.
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Researchers linked the tapeworm drug niclosamide to a carrier that cleared detectable endometriosis lesions in up to five of eight treated mice after one dose. It points to a non-hormonal option for a disease with no cure, though the test used eight mice per group over two weeks.
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A Candidozyma auris isolate from a Nairobi surgical-site infection resisted all four classes of antifungal drug in laboratory tests, researchers report. That makes it the first pan-drug-resistant case of the WHO critical-priority pathogen reported in Africa.
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Retatrutide's 12 mg dose cut body weight 25% over 80 weeks, versus 3.9% on placebo, in a 2,339-adult phase 3 trial in NEJM. Its near-30% two-year figure comes from 532 completers, and because placebo was the only comparator, the trial cannot rank the drug against Ozempic.
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UCSF researchers found depression scores about three PHQ-9 points lower when 19 adults cut ultra-processed food for four weeks. The result justifies the larger blinded trial the authors want; on its own it is too small to guide how depression is treated.
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Australian Institute of Marine Science biologists re-identified 31 black teatfish by DNA after 24 years and estimate the species can live more than 120 years. Adults barely grow, so a teatfish's size reveals little about the age of an endangered animal still prized as a delicacy.
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Researchers at Seoul's Asan Medical Center found fasting length meaningfully shifted only 10 of 121 analytes in 9.7 million blood-test results. The data support fasting instructions written test by test, though they come from one hospital's records.
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