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Repeated lung infections that are extremely hard to cure? Unexplained pancreatic insufficiency or infertility? These diseases may seem unrelated, but in fact they may all be linked to CFTR gene mutations. The CFTR gene is located at band 1 of region 3 on the long…

Yesterday evening, during a practical training class in rehabilitation medicine, I suddenly received a message from the teacher at our university's innovation laboratory. He told me that the pharmacological experiment I had applied to conduct at the university could now go ahead, and asked me…

(The full text is about ten thousand words; reading it requires patience.) Mental illness has always been difficult to cure, yet cases of self-healing occasionally occur. Dr. Marsha Linehan, a psychologist at the University of Washington in the United States, was just such a case.

Recently, in the course of my studies, I have become deeply fascinated by Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus and the series of diseases it induces. The reason is that this streptococcal infection is related to at least two of my relatives: one is my son, and…

Peptic ulcer is a common disease characterized by chronic ulcers forming in the mucosa of the stomach and duodenum. It often recurs and follows a chronic course, and its occurrence is related to the digestive action of gastric juice—hence the name peptic ulcer. Among peptic…

Sore throat and rheumatism are both common diseases, and their causes may both be related to infection by a bacterium called Group A Streptococcus. Group A Streptococcus is a species of the genus Streptococcus; it is a pyogenic coccus, a Gram-positive bacterium with strong pathogenicity,…

Mr. Qian Weichang, in an interview, spoke of how, when he studied at Tsinghua University, he went to the science building every morning at five o'clock to recite texts, only to find that Hua Luogeng had already finished reciting. The son of Mr. Qian Xuesen,…

On May 21, 2026, the journal Science published a research report by a team led by the neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester in the United States. The report proposed that, after years of study, the team found that sleep is essential for…

Hemorrhage refers to the escape of red blood cells from the circulating blood out of the cardiac chamber or vascular lumen into the tissue spaces, body cavities, or body surface. Hemorrhage is both physiological and pathological: physiological hemorrhage, such as menstruation in women; and pathological…

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) reported that a large survey covering 14 European countries and more than 28,500 people aged 50 and over found that people with better chewing ability and more retained natural teeth generally performed better on cognitive tests such as vocabulary memory,…