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New research from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine found that intestinal organoids modeled on preclinical Alzheimer’s disease develop barrier damage, inflammation and hallmark disease proteins, suggesting the gut may play a larger role in disease progression than previously understood

For decades, anthropologists have debated whether these early peoples subsisted by taking down the massive mammals of the time or foraged on a mix of whatever they could find. A recent study published in Science Advances argues the former over the latter—that megafauna such as woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths sustained Paleoindians after their…