27+ min ago   (539+ words) A person’s teeth may hold a surprising clue to how long they survive after pancreatic cancer surgery. In a new study, patients with at least 21 natural teeth survived nearly two years longer, on average, than those with fewer teeth. Researchers…...

52+ min ago   (409+ words) Pesticide exposure during childhood may quietly shift one of puberty’s most important milestones. Researchers in Spain found that exposure to two common pesticide-related compounds was associated with changes in the timing of menstruation. One was linked to an earlier first…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (215+ words) Habitual coffee consumption was associated with differences in body composition, metabolism, and sex hormones, but causation remains unproven. Researchers at the University of Oulu analyzed information from 2,264 people aged 46 who participated in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966. They examined whether…...

10+ hour, 28+ min ago   (354+ words) Targeting SET may make glioblastoma more responsive to radiation and chemotherapy. Rather than replacing radiation or chemotherapy, the strategy is intended to make glioblastoma more vulnerable to them. In preclinical models, suppressing SET prevented tumors from developing, making it the…...

11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (407+ words) A simple blood test that detects chemical changes in DNA identified more than 90% of stage 2-4 lung cancers in an early study, without relying on costly DNA sequencing. In the study, which included 103 people, researchers compared samples from 51 lung cancer patients…...

11+ hour, 37+ min ago   (471+ words) A targeted light-activated therapy may treat periodontitis without disrupting the beneficial bacteria that help maintain oral health. Treating periodontitis presents a difficult balance: harmful bacteria need to be removed without wiping out the beneficial microbes that help maintain a healthy…...

13+ hour, 49+ min ago   (837+ words) CT scans and DNA revealed that Australia’s rare sea muppets only look like seahorses and actually belong to a separate evolutionary lineage. A tiny fish from southern Australia could easily be mistaken for a seahorse. Its head bends downward in…...

14+ hour, 25+ min ago   (786+ words) A parasitic plant on a Japanese island has found an unlikely way to send its offspring into the world. It appears to enlist wandering hermit crabs. For years, one basic question remained unresolved: Where do all those seeds go? The…...

15+ hour ago   (405+ words) An international research team examined a unique fossil from China that, for the first time, preserves the digestive system of a marine reptile with a long neck that lived in the oceans 245 million years ago. Inside an almost complete fossil…...

20+ hour, 3+ min ago   (655+ words) With cancer treatment, when a drug is given may matter almost as much as which drug is used. For years, melanoma researchers have faced a frustrating contradiction. Experiments suggested that periodically stopping certain targeted drugs might help keep resistant cancer…...