Medicine

A newly discovered enzyme called IDOL could be the key to stopping Alzheimer’s disease. When researchers removed it from neurons, amyloid plaques — the toxic clumps that define Alzheimer’s — dramatically decreased. The discovery adds a crucial missing piece to the Alzheimer’s puzzle. For years, scientists have focused on clearing amyloid plaques after they form. […]

Your gut lining renews itself every few days. But when that process breaks down, diseases like inflammatory bowel syndrome take hold. MIT researchers have just found an unexpected ally: cysteine, a common amino acid. The humble amino acid — found in meat, dairy, beans, and nuts — turns out to be a powerful trigger for

Your morning coffee might be doing more than waking you up. A massive long-term study found that drinking two to three cups a day was linked to a dramatically lower risk of dementia — especially before age 75. Researchers tracked thousands of older adults over more than a decade, monitoring their coffee consumption and cognitive

A casual conversation between graduate students at the Mayo Clinic sparked a breakthrough: tiny synthetic DNA molecules that hunt down and tag «zombie cells» — one of the main drivers of aging. Senescent cells, nicknamed «zombie cells», are old cells that have stopped dividing but refuse to die. Instead, they sit in your tissues leaking