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Muscle repair: Making a good system better, faster; implications for aging, disease

...at "the inflammatory process can be a double-edged sword for muscle repair. Inflammatory cells can exacerbate an injury, but they also can produce substances that may be required for repair. We would speculate that anti-inflammatory drugs may not be such a good idea if they're inhibiting repair-promoting m...

Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex

...n; however, bacterial adaptation is a double-edged sword for the environment. While the genetic exchange among bacteria can lead to positive environmental outcomes, such as improved bioremediation qualities, bacterial adaptation can also create potentially harmful bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics...

ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration

...for example, has been thought of as a double-edged sword as it relates to sexual signals, because it enhances trait production but comes at a health price to the animal.” “This study shows that testosterone may not be as costly as previously thought, so long as animals can nutritionally offset the immun...

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