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Imagine um futuro em que os cuidados com a saúde sejam adaptados especificamente para você, até mesmo para as moléculas no interior das suas células. Tratamentos direcionados e estratégias preventivas são personalizados para o seu genoma. Seu mapa médico pessoal descreve variantes genéticas hereditárias, fornece orientação sobre riscos ambientais e oferece estratégias para manter a saúde do seu coração e prevenir o câncer, tornando-o tão único quanto o seu DNA.

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Use spiked in 2023, especially in females

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Imagine un futuro en el que la atención a la salud se adapte específicamente a usted, incluso a las moléculas dentro de sus células. Los tratamientos específicos y las estrategias preventivas se adaptan a su genoma. Su mapa médico personal describe las variantes genéticas hereditarias, le brinda con orientación sobre los riesgos ambientales y ofrece estrategias para mantener la salud de su corazón y prevenir el cáncer, haciéndolo tan único como su ADN.

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For the first time, nuclear physicists made precision measurements of the short-lived radioactive molecule, radium monofluoride (RaF). The researchers combined ion-trapping and specialized laser systems to measure the fine details of the quantum structure of RaF. This allowed them to study the rotational energy levels of RaF and determine its laser-cooling scheme.

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Even slight cognitive changes can affect an older person’s decision to stop driving, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings suggest that routine cognitive testing — in particular, the kind of screening designed to pick up the earliest, most subtle decline — could help older adults and their physicians make decisions about driving that maximizes safety while preserving independence as long as possible.

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What factors lead older adults to stop driving? A new study followed older adults who had no memory or thinking problems to examine this question. The study is published in the May 22, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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People who eat more ultra-processed foods like soft drinks, chips and cookies may have a higher risk of having memory and thinking problems and having a stroke than those who eat fewer processed foods, according to a new study published in the May 22, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that eating ultra-processed foods causes memory and thinking problems and stroke. It only shows an association.

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A new study that investigated the presence of the smallest particles of microplastics (MPs) in ocean waters from the Caribbean to the Arctic found that the most abundant (and tiny) MPs in the ocean are not being detected by net tow surveys.

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When the Danish bulk carrier Nordic Orion set sail on Sept. 17, 2013, from Vancouver, British Columbia, on a journey to Finland, it set a course for a groundbreaking journey. Rather than turn south to pass through the Panama Canal, it headed north to traverse the Northwest Passage, a winding sea route through the archipelago off Canada’s north and east coasts.

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Off the southeastern tip of Greenland in mid-June, Hayley DeHart, a genomics and marine scientist at APL, disembarked Lindblad Expedition’s National Geographic Endurance — a 407-foot (124-meter) ice-cutting cruise ship — and stepped into a small Zodiac inflatable motorboat.