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Medical Xpress / How schizophrenia risk may begin: Gene changes reshape signaling in developing neurons

Researchers at King's College London have identified the biological nature and timing of changes in human cortical neurons caused by altering activity of a schizophrenia-associated gene in developing human neurons. This discovery ...

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Medical Xpress / One in four doctors believe human preservation and future revival could work, but not without challenges

A new survey of U.S. physicians focuses on human preservation procedures and the feasibility of future revival. Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston of Monash University, Australia, and colleagues present their findings in the study, ...

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Medical Xpress / New technique discovers previously unknown population of immune cells in the Alzheimer's brain

A newly developed microscopy technique allows, for the first time, the visualization of more than 30 protein markers simultaneously in the human brain and uses bioinformatics to analyze their spatial relationships. In the ...

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Medical Xpress / Spatial transcriptomics guides inflammatory bowel disease research

A novel spatial transcriptomics atlas developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists may improve the understanding of niche cellular interactions in the gastrointestinal tract that promote the development of inflammatory bowel ...

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Medical Xpress / Scientists make surprising discovery and find a possible new ally in the opioid crisis

Scientists at Bowling Green State University recently made a series of discoveries that could have wide-ranging implications for the future of the national opioid crisis. Through a partnership with the Toledo Lucas County ...

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Medical Xpress / Tumor microenvironment features may predict immunotherapy response in rare cancers

A new study in Cell Reports Medicine from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center identified key features that may help predict which types of rare cancers are likely to respond to immunotherapy.

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Medical Xpress / How medical education can revive the physician–scientist pipeline

The physician–scientist has long occupied a unique place in medicine—bridging the laboratory and the clinic, translating scientific discoveries into innovative patient care. But that role is becoming increasingly rare. The ...

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Medical Xpress / The neural basis of thought symbols identified for the first time

If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn't exist, they'll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the body of a seal with an elephant's trunk, four octopus arms, and one lizard eye.

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Medical Xpress / New clarity on a little‑understood stage of childhood development

Adrenarche—an early, puzzling transition between childhood and adolescence—has long been clouded by inconsistent terminology across pediatrics, endocrinology, and puberty research. A new call for precision aims to change ...

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Medical Xpress / Autism social differences emerge early but can change considerably by adulthood, research suggests

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in behavior, social interactions, communication, and sensory perceptions. Some autistic individuals find communicating and connecting ...

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Medical Xpress / Human health appears unaffected by living near wind turbines

High-resolution data collected across the United States show negligible evidence of adverse health outcomes tied to wind turbine exposure, a study finds. Despite helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, wind turbine installations ...

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Medical Xpress / Saliva could flag one of the deadliest and most baffling cancers sooner

Scientists at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB) at Wits University are exploring whether bacteria in saliva could offer a low-cost warning signal for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, where late ...

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