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The Dead Could Outnumber the Living on Facebook by 2070

The number of dead users could increase to 4.9 billion before the end of the century Academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a section of the University of Oxford, have made a recent analysis that predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a drift that will have severe consequences on how we handle our digital heritage in the future.

Smelling Begins On the Tongue, Not the Brain, Study Says

The human taste cells contain many vital molecules known to be present in olfactory receptors The functional olfactory receptors, the sensors that detect odors in the nose, are also present in human taste cells found on the tongue, according to a report by scientists from the Monell Center.

Gasdermin E: Useful Target for Improving Cancer Therapy

Cells with gasdermin E grow less and are more susceptible to death and don’t form tumors Cells need to die, sometimes. The process of cell death is encoded within the genome of all higher organisms to kill off cancerous cells, and as a regular part of the development to shape a mass of embryonic cells into the organism it will become.

Increasing Death Rates For Older Adults Starting Dialysis

New evidence will help patients and families cope with what lies ahead Harvard Medical School researchers have found out in a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that, older adults with end-stage kidney disease who start dialysis, a treatment that keeps their blood free of toxin, seem to die at higher rates than previously thought.

Reasons Bisexual People Experience Higher Rates of Psychological Distress

The challenging life experience of bisexual people and how it impacts on their mental health La Trobe University carried out the most extensive study of bisexual people in the world to date and examined why bisexual people experience higher rates of psychological distress than heterosexual and homosexual people.

Scientists Discovered How Obesity and Insulin Break Down Blood Brain-Barrier in Humans

Scientists have reported that in humans, obesity can break down the protective blood barrier resulting in problems with learning and memory. Also, scientists know that chronic activation of the receptor Adora2a on the endothelial cells that line this essential barrier in the human brain can let factors from the blood enter the brain and disturb the performance of human neurons.
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