Treatment for breast cancer commonly includes radiation therapy, which offers good chances of success but comes with a serious long-term side effect: toxicity due to radiation that reaches the heart, causing DNA damage in healthy heart cells. Over time, this can lead to heart disease and eventually heart failure. A new study conducted by researchers […]
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Researchers find molecular mechanisms behind women’s biological clock
Researchers have mapped out some of the mechanisms that may affect women’s fertility from the teenage years to menopause. These mechanisms largely depend on naturally occurring chromosome errors—errors that vary depending on age group. This is the conclusion by an international research group in a new study, led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen. […]
Scientists identify key to slowing the clock for people with abnormally fast heart beats
Scientists in Japan have found a potential marker to identify which people with abnormally fast heartbeats are at high risk of developing heart failure. The results were published in June in Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, a journal from the American Heart Association. Atrial fibrillation, or chronically, abnormally fast heartbeat, can be a symptom of […]