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Women Can Tell You're Insecure if You Do These Things

As we continue to have more complex conversations about what it means to be a man today, the more our old-fashioned ideas of masculinity come into question. In a recent thread on Reddit, women started sharing some of the things that they’ve noticed straight guys do that are meant to show how manly they are… […]

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Saliromanie (Salirophilie) – The Lust for dirt

Saliromanie or better Salirophilie derives from the French word for „beschmutzen“ from. Salirophiler referred to a people, the sexual arousal at the Spot of other people, self or objects felt. Among the substances with which such people daub, mud, food, semen, blood, urine, or feces. Table of contents Risks koprophiler practices Risks urophiler practices Exkrementophilie […]

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Researchers explore the epigenetics of daytime sleepiness

Everyone feels tired at times, but up to 20 percent of U.S. adults report feeling so sleepy during the day that it interferes with daily activities, including working, having meals or carrying on conversations. Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) can lead to car accidents and work-related injuries and may increase risk of stroke and heart disease. […]

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Gene therapy for gamma-sarcoglycanopathy moves toward a clinical trial

Isabelle Richard’s team, a CNRS researcher in an Inserm unit at Genethon, the AFM-Telethon laboratory, has demonstrated the efficacy of gene therapy and determined the effective dose for treating a rare muscle disease, gamma-sarcoglycanopathy, in mouse models of the disease. Based on these encouraging results, published in Molecular Therapy: Methods and Clinical Development, the researchers […]