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·July 24, 2026·10 min read

Study Reveals Ongoing Natural Selection in Modern Humans

By measuring allele frequency changes across adult age groups, the team identified 168 variants under active selection, including 71 pathogenic mutations under purifying selection.

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·July 24, 2026·9 min read

New Study Flips Core Rule of Evolution

A long-term hyena study reveals female reproductive inequality exceeds male inequality over multiple generations.

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·July 24, 2026·8 min read

Novel Compound May Restore Aging Muscles

A new study shows that lipoic acid trisulfide (LASSS) protects hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) from age-related nitration.

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·July 24, 2026·9 min read

Future Obesity Drugs to Target Specific Brain Circuits

Using site-specific knockout mouse models, researchers found that GIPR agonists suppress appetite via the brainstem, while GIPR antagonists act in the hypothalamus to release a "brake" on hindbrain satiety.

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·July 23, 2026·9 min read

Study Links Acid Ceramidase to Ferroptosis and Aging

Researchers found that elevated acid ceramidase in senescent cells increases their susceptibility to ferroptosis and transfers this vulnerability to adjacent tissue.

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·July 23, 2026·11 min read

Engineers Redefined Light Delivery to Track Neural Firing

A new study introduces FlatMux, a two-photon voltage imaging platform that records electrical signals from nearly 200 neurons at up to 2,000 frames per second.

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·July 23, 2026·10 min read

3D Genome Disruption in Alzheimer’s Disease

A new study shows that 3D genome architecture is altered in prefrontal cortex cells of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.

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·July 23, 2026·9 min read

How Midlife Systems Remodeling Reshapes the Human Hippocampus

A new study reveals that the human brain undergoes major shifts in 3D genome architecture and gene regulation starting in midlife.

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·July 23, 2026·8 min read

Study Shows Rapid Reversal of Autism Traits

Asingle dose of the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin rapidly reverses autism-like behaviors and abnormal brain connectivity in adult mice exposed to maternal inflammation during development.

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·July 23, 2026·9 min read

How Time Zone Shifts Disrupt Intestinal Rhythms

A new study highlights "gut jet lag", the desynchronization between host biological clocks and gut microbiota rhythms during long-haul travel.

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·July 23, 2026·6 min read

How Brain Wave Tuning Maintains Consciousness

Using high-density ECoG and transfer entropy, the team discovered "informational tuning," where information selectively moves along the path of cortical traveling waves.