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Medical Xpress / Team targets the spinal cord to solve paralysis' most overlooked problem

Approximately 308,000 people in the United States live with spinal cord injury. Nearly all lose bladder control. And yet the vast majority of research and engineering attention in neurotech has poured into motor restoration—making ...

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Medical Xpress / Gentler blood cancer treatment could boost survival and quality of life

A gentler treatment for children whose leukemia has come back could boost survival and quality of life, a study led by a UCL academic has found. The new regime significantly reduces the need for intensive chemotherapy and ...

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Medical Xpress / Still moments reveal how the brain links distant places during learning

When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and at different times. The neural processes that contribute to linking different meaningful experiences, ...

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Medical Xpress / For 30 years, doctors chased the wrong immune culprit behind this rare inflammatory disease

Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have uncovered a critical mechanism driving inflammation in mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD), a rare but devastating autoinflammatory disorder. The study, published ...

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Medical Xpress / Disease-causing pathogen rewires gut metabolism to secure nutrients for growth, research shows

An intestinal pathogen reshapes the gut environment to fuel its own colonization and cause diseases, a multi-institutional team including researchers at Vanderbilt Health has discovered. The investigators show that enterotoxigenic ...

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Medical Xpress / Years before pregnancy, routine bloodwork may already signal which women will face one of its riskiest complications

Small abnormalities in blood sugar, blood lipids and inflammation several years before pregnancy are linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure during pregnancy and preeclampsia, according to a study from Karolinska ...

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Medical Xpress / Why this CAR T advance matters: Complete remissions without chemotherapy at doses as low as 250,000 cells/kg

Stem-cell memory T (TSCM) cells are a rare subset of immune cells with the ability to self-renew, persist long term, and mount potent anti-tumor responses. These properties make them an attractive candidate for next-generation ...

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Medical Xpress / Targeted maternal screening could prevent rare, deadly leukemia in the US

A deadly form of leukemia may be stopped before it ever develops by introducing targeted maternal screening in the United States, according to new research. The national study, led by physician-scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive ...

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Medical Xpress / A gene that keeps intestinal stem cells stable offers insight into how tissues repair themselves

Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, Ph.D., was a postdoctoral scientist at Gladstone Institutes, studying genes. There, he helped discover ...

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Medical Xpress / How the brain rapidly switches between internal and external processing

A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain processes information through large-scale network changes. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, ...

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Medical Xpress / Predicting genetic risk for type 1 diabetes just got more accurate thanks to machine learning study

In people with type 1 diabetes (T1D), the immune system shuts down the body's ability to make the hormone insulin, responsible for regulating blood sugar and providing cells with glucose to produce energy. As a result, they ...

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Medical Xpress / Glucose levels appear to guide when brain cells divide or form myelin

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have uncovered a surprising link between low brain sugar levels and the development of myelin—the protective coating that allows ...

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