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A Fatty Acid Pushed “Zombie” Cells to Self-Destruct in Mice. Don’t Reach for Supplements Yet.
Senescent cells are often nicknamed “zombie” cells: they have stopped dividing but resist dying, and they can linger in aging tissue sending out inflammatory...
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How Does Ozempic Protect Kidneys? Biopsies Point to Blood Vessels, Not Oxygen
Semaglutide is approved to reduce the risk of kidney disease worsening in adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, but the question...
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Novo’s $200 Million Triple Agonist Posted Up to 19.7% Weight Loss. The Trial Was 24 Weeks
When Novo Nordisk licensed UBT251 in March 2025, the evidence behind it was a 36-person phase 1b study in China. Novo agreed to pay...
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Metformin’s Weight-Loss Signal Needs a Gut Exit Door. Stanford Found It in Mice
Metformin weight loss has always been a slightly awkward fact.
The drug is a decades-old diabetes workhorse. It is inexpensive, widely prescribed, and often produces...
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An Antimicrobial Spray Builds Its Own Peptide Film on Wounds. The Test Was in Mice
A future wound dressing might not arrive as a sheet, a sponge or a tube of ointment. It could be sprayed into place, where...
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A Ring-Shaped Peptide Locked Coronavirus Spike in Place. The Mouse Data Are Not a Human Cure
Viruses depend on motion. A coronavirus spike protein must change shape to bring the viral membrane together with the membrane of a cell it...
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A Sleep-Linked Fruit Fly Protein Revealed a New Way to Jam Bacterial Ribosomes
One of the stranger clues in antibiotic research has come from a protein originally associated with sleep. In fruit flies, a protein called Nemuri...
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A 1967 Antibiotic Peptide Had a Hidden Assembly Partner. Researchers Finally Found Its Job
An antibiotic peptide first isolated in 1967 has returned to the scientific spotlight because researchers have uncovered an unexpected piece of its molecular assembly...
