The human body has sophisticated defenses against the deposition of calcium minerals that stiffen heart tissues, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at UCLA Health and the University of Texas at Austin found in a new study that provides the first detailed, step-by-step documentation of how calcification progresses.
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As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances[1], with nearly the entire population experiencing high levels of food insecurity[2], including malnutrition, hunger and starvation[3]. A famine review analysis[4] from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification[5] reported on June 25, 2024, that “a high risk of Famine persists across the whole...

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