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14
2017
Obesity is a combination of genetic factors and environmental factors caused by nutritional metabolic disorders. Prevention and treatment of obesity has become an important health problem in the 21st century. Animal models are an essential for the study of obesity.
08
11
2017
A new study suggests a threefold increase in the risk of death from hypertension (high blood pressure) for people who regularly smoke cannabis.
08
11
2017
Scientists have discovered that exposure to environmental levels of triclocarban (TCC) can transfer from mother to offspring and interfere with lipid metabolism.
08
10
2017
Prostate cancer researchers have mapped the impact of an acquired mutation that alters epigenetic identity, the make-up of DNA, in about 50% of patient tumor samples.
08
10
2017
The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace the use of opioids in chronic pain treatment.