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Biggest human imaging study scans 100,000th UK volunteer

Biggest human imaging study scans 100,000th UK volunteer

Bourigault et al. 2024 Thousands of scans of each participant are recorded and stored as part of the imaging project. Here showing images of the abdomen and major organs Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers. The world’s biggest human imaging …

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Mysterious New Structure Discovered Hiding Inside Human Cells : ScienceAlert

Mysterious New Structure Discovered Hiding Inside Human Cells : ScienceAlert

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our health has just been added to the anatomy books. The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It’s …

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Ancient DNA reveals 37,000 years of hidden human infections

Ancient DNA reveals 37,000 years of hidden human infections

Using ancient DNA recovered from prehistoric bones and teeth, scientists have built a 37,000‑year timeline of human infections, stretching from the icy mammoth camps of Siberia to medieval graveyards in Denmark. The new genetic map shows how early microbes began shaping human history. The scientists sequenced remains from 1,313 individuals and found genetic traces of 214 different pathogens. These range …

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Stem Cell Treatment to Reverse Hearing Loss Kicking Off in Human Patients

Stem Cell Treatment to Reverse Hearing Loss Kicking Off in Human Patients

Image by Getty / Futurism The first-ever human trial exploring the use of stem cell therapy to reverse hearing loss is about to be under way, after getting the go-ahead from the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Conducted by researchers from the University of Sheffield who formed their own spin-out company, the treatment targets sensorineural hearing loss, which …

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New type of Earth rock is created by human industrial waste

New type of Earth rock is created by human industrial waste

A discarded can tab, locked inside a new type of rock on England’s Cumbrian coast, tells a startling story about what happens when industry and nature collide. Geologists have confirmed that steel slag from old furnaces has fused into solid rock in only 35 years, overturning information from textbooks that marks rock formation in spans of geologic ages. How waste becomes …

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140,000-year-old child’s skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced

140,000-year-old child’s skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced

The child’s skull has a mix of features that appear to align with both modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. (Image credit: Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University) One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found …

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