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Medical Xpress / RNA blood markers may reveal illness trajectory and treatment success within days
Scientists are developing a test which could one day be used to predict how a patient's illness will progress, and even how well they will respond to treatment. The international team, led by researchers at Imperial College ...
Medical Xpress / How HIV hijacks a cellular 'gateway' to infect resting immune cells
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 can infect resting immune cells. The discovery challenges a decades-old assumption in HIV biology, and opens new ...
Medical Xpress / To combat the youth vaping epidemic, AI can help determine which cessation strategies work best
Nationwide, young people ages 18–24 are the heaviest users of e-cigarettes, with 38.4% of youth reporting habitual use. E-cigarettes are also very popular in Western New York, with significantly higher use than in New York ...
Medical Xpress / Blood protein study of 78,000 people uncovers disease mechanisms and drug repurposing leads
Involving a collaboration with 118 investigators contributing from 89 institutions, scientists from Queen Mary University of London's Precision Healthcare University Research Institute and Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) ...
Medical Xpress / Fish reveal four distinct sleep states, including three with eye movements
Humans and other mammals cycle through distinct sleep phases. One of them is easily recognized by the darting motion of the eyes behind closed lids, giving it its name: REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. This is the state in ...
Medical Xpress / AI screening tool gives pathologists 'spatial super vision' to detect hidden cancer
QIMR Berghofer scientists have developed an AI screening tool that harnesses the power of cutting-edge spatial biology analysis to give pathologists "super vision" to detect hidden genetic markers of cancer in standard patient ...
Medical Xpress / Can AI forecast immune responses? New benchmark shows where predictions hold up and fail
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help scientists accelerate drug discovery and search for new treatments. But for AI tools to work effectively, researchers need to know whether they can be validated and ...
Medical Xpress / Hidden reservoir may drive brain cancer relapse in 65% of patients
All types of brain cancers collectively have a five-year survival rate of just 33%, according to the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. For a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, ...
Medical Xpress / New GlyT2 blocker relieves chronic neuropathic pain without major side effects
Chronic neuropathic pain remains one of the most challenging conditions to treat, with current therapies offering limited benefit and being over-reliant on opioids. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), along ...
Medical Xpress / Oral small-molecule GLP-1 drugs penetrate deep into the brain to suppress cravings
A study has found that an emerging class of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs suppresses eating for pleasure, or hedonic feeding, in mice by modulating a reward circuit deep within the brain. This newly charted pathway—separate from ...
Medical Xpress / Large study finds a strong link between depression and cannabis use
A new meta-analysis of 55 studies involving more than 3 million people has found that 31% of individuals with cannabis use disorder (CUD) also struggle with major depressive disorder (MDD). While a link between these two ...
Medical Xpress / While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next
Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in Nature, challenge what ...
