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Each additional day of exposure to wildfire smoke and other extreme forms of dirty air boosts risk of mental illness in youth a little more, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study of 10,000 9 to 11 year olds.

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Landmark new research shows Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescents.

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Researchers found an increase in surgical sterilization among women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

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A team has uncovered clues to the mechanism behind vitiligo, a skin pigmentation disorder said to have a worldwide incidence of 1-2%.

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Scientists have identified key changes to both chromosome structure and gene expression that affect stem cell function during aging. Using fruit flies, they found that these changes led to stem cell exhaustion, which prevents stem cells from multiplying. The findings provide the first evidence of an independent exhaustion signal and enhance our understanding of how the delicate balance between stem cell exhaustion and proliferation is disrupted in normal aging.

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Around 300,000 people die from hepatitis C every year. A new study has mapped the protein complex that enables the virus to infect our cells, potentially paving the way for an effective vaccine.

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A research team has developed an analysis pipeline to identify unexploited genes for a given disease against five databases that provide gene-disease associations. They used their pipeline to study oxidative stress and its related disease, Parkinson's disease, as a case study.

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