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Research indicates that combining CRP and MHR levels in a blood test offers a more precise way to predict type 2 diabetes risk, with findings emphasizing chronic inflammation’s impact and the potential for early, personalized preventive measures.A new study by Edith Cowan University (ECU) suggests that a blood test may be able to evaluate a patient’s likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes.The most commonly used inflammatory biomarker currently used to predict the risk of type 2 diabetes is high-sensitivity C-reactive…

Small dogs with long noses, such as whippets and miniature dachshunds, live for years longer than large flat-faced breeds such as English bulldogs, new research said on Thursday.The study, which is based on data from more than half a million dogs across the UK, aims to help people planning to get a dog ensure they choose a breed that will have a long and healthy life.Lead author Kirsten McMillan, data manager at UK charity Dogs Trust, said it was the first study to look at how life expectancy varies across such a broad…

Almost 25 years since scientists first identified the difference in anesthetic sensitivity between males and females, new research suggests that sex hormones make men more responsive to this state of unconsciousness – and women far less so.Earlier studies have shown that women take longer to be 'put under', to emerge from anesthetic faster than men, and are more likely to experience rare occurrences of awareness while on the operating table. But why this is has been largely theory-based and understudied, which should not…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vocal fry has a bad reputation in American English. A subtype of creaky voice, a feature of speech that sounds gravelly and pulse-like, this manner of speech is sometimes used to form judgment about the speaker. In many languages, the creaky tone changes the meaning of words, as exhibited in Lango spoken in South Sudan or Jalapa Mazatec spoken in Mexico. …

Burying sample containers with minerals in the soil. Credit: Ingo Schöning, MPI-BGC Carbon sequestration in soils can contribute to mitigate climate change, and soil organic matter associated with minerals has the highest capacity to store carbon. A team of researchers, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, assessed the factors controlling…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Numerous research studies have suggested that children from a single-parent family are worse off than those who have two parents at home. These findings chime with decades of stigma that have painted coming from a single-parent home as undesirable. Understandably, you may find this worrying if you…

Biologists have long labored at understanding how our body develops. Centuries of embryology and morphology laid the groundwork for the discipline of developmental biology. Then came the discovery of DNA. And by the late 1970s, the heyday of molecular biology and developmental genetics had arrived: fruit fly geneticists discovered Hox and other major genes that set up the fruit fly body plan. These genes are connected in intricate gene regulatory networks in which they turn one another on and off like switches.…

Egyptian fruit bat. Credit: Tel Aviv University In a creative collaborative effort between zoologists and geographers from Tel Aviv University, a new study utilizing bats to map Urban Heat Islands in Gush Dan reveals that during the winter months, the air over the Ayalon Highway can be up to five degrees Celsius warmer than the air in Yarkon Park. …

Doctor Apple is coming in with another fastball pitch that could potentially reposition its AirPods as more than just a pair of premium earbuds. Apple is reportedly trying to enable USB-C on AirPods, make them connect to the upcoming Vision Pro headset, and engineer ways the buds could read users’ internal temperature through the ear like a hometown doctor’s oversized ear thermometer.That last bit is one of the most interesting use cases for Apple’s premiere earbud technology. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the…

A study from Duke University has found that warmer temperatures not only cause more turtle eggs to hatch as females, but these females also have a higher capacity for egg production. The research showed that higher incubation temperatures increase the number of “germ cells” in an embryo, pre-eggs that also play a role in determining sex, potentially providing an evolutionary reason for temperature-dependent sex determination and presenting new implications for these species in a changing climate.A recent discovery sheds…