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Your skin has a built-in cancer defense and sunlight turns the genetic protective mechanism off
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 2, 2025 Source:Your skin has a built-in cancer defense and sunlight turns it off Reference:YTHDF2 regulates self non-coding RNA metabolism to control inflammation and tumorigenesis
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A 25-year Crohn’s disease mystery seems to have been solved using AI to analyze a plethora of genomic data
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 19, 2025 Source:A 25-year Crohn’s disease mystery finally cracked by AI Reference:Distinct colitis-associated macrophages drive NOD2-dependent bacterial sensing and gut homeostasis.
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Epigenetic Switch to Turn Memories On and Off Created in Mice.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 14, 2025 Source:Epigenetic Switch to Turn Memories On and Off Created Reference:Cell-type and locus-specific epigenetic editing of memory expression
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Selfish sperm see older fathers pass on more disease-causing mutations
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 15, 2025 Source:Selfish sperm see older fathers pass on more disease-causing mutations Reference:Sperm sequencing reveals extensive positive selection in the male germline
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Huntington’s disease: Neurological illness treated in ‘one shot,’ researcher says. Slows progression up to 75% in phase I/II trial
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 29, 2025 Source:Huntington’s disease: Neurological illness treated in ‘one shot,’ researcher says
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Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic disease
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 17, 2025 Source:Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic disease
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Rapamycin may extend lifespan as effectively as dietary restrictions if you are a mouse, rat, turquoise killifish, or rheses macaque monkey. No studies on humans and to do so, based on side effect profile of drug, is fraught with serious adverse affects
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 27, 2025 Source:Rapamycin may extend lifespan as effectively as dietary restrictions Reference:Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction-Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis
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We May Soon Have a Blood Test to Predict Postpartum Depression
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 9, 2025 Source:We May Soon Have a Blood Test to Predict Postpartum Depression
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Popular diabetes medication significantly slows down aging in monkey study. Mechanisms are fascinating.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 2, 2025 Source:Popular diabetes medication significantly slows down aging Reference:Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys