Singapore Health News API

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            "title": "Mirror Life’s Doomsday Potential",
            "description": "Scientists working on synthetic “mirror life” have come to realize that, if created, it could pose an existential threat to life on Earth.",
            "content": "Seasoned bioethicist Laurie Zoloth has a trick she likes to play in her seminars at the University of Chicago. She tells each student to pick up a pencil, then she gives them a series of instructions about how to maneuver it in their hands. At some p... [44517 chars]",
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            "title": "Hantavirus risk to US public remains low, says national health agency",
            "description": "The passengers are currently being monitored for hantavirus at US medical facilities. Read more at straitstimes.com.",
            "content": "WASHINGTON – The risk from hantavirus to the general public remains very low, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has more than 100 staff members actively working on the outbreak, an official with the government health agency ... [1208 chars]",
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            "title": "Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life",
            "description": "Optimal sleep has a vital role in promoting healthy ageing and enhancing longevity. Here we propose Sleep Chart to assess the relationship between self-reported sleep duration and 23 biological ageing clocks derived from in vivo imaging1, plasma proteomics2 and metabolomics3. First, a systemic, U-shaped pattern emerges between sleep duration and biological age gaps across nine brain and body systems and three omics technologies. The sample-specific lowest biological age gaps are achieved between 6.4 and 7.8 h of sleep duration, varying by organ and sex in the UK Biobank (aged 37–84 years). Furthermore, short (<6 h) and long (>8 h) sleep duration, compared with a normal sleep duration (6–8 h), are associated with increased risk of systemic diseases beyond the brain and all-cause mortality, with evidence from genetic correlations and time-to-incident survival predictions, such as depression and diabetes. Finally, the pathways by which long and short sleep duration are associated with late-life depression differ: ageing clocks may partially mediate the pathway for long sleep duration, while short sleep duration shows a more direct link. Although Mendelian randomization does not provide strong evidence that disease causally affects sleep, it cannot completely exclude such reverse causality. Our findings suggest a cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks, highlighting the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and extend longevity. A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and extend longevity.",
            "content": "In the UKBB, our genome-wide association study (GWAS; Methods) identified 8 genetic loci (P < 5 × 10−8) associated with abnormal sleep duration patterns (Fig. 2a). A locus at 3q29 (top lead single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP): rs34382732) was associ... [53545 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10524-5?error=cookies_not_supported&code=a62f9518-2df5-41f9-8fe9-96a83058a25c",
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                "name": "Nature",
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