Contraceptive Hormones Improve Cognitive Function
- Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain
- November 9, 2012
In 1931, a Japanese team found what was believed to be the burial site of Miura Anjin, the first Samurai from England. The skeletal was then reburied, and it was only almost nine decades later that scientists excavated the site again and analysed the remains with modern techniques.
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READ MOREThe benefits of exercise are not a surprise, and most of us have a fair sense of individual fitness. A recent article published in the Cell Journal1 went a step further and investigated what happens to the body at a molecular level after physical activity. Researchers at Stanford School of Medicine examined the molecular responses
READ MOREMost of the patients who recover from Covid-19 have antibodies against SARS-CoV2, the coronavirus that causes the disease, shows a study published in the pre-print server medXriv (yet to be peer-reviewed). Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine recruited 1,343 patients who had tested positive or had symptoms for Covid-19 in New York City
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