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Medical Xpress / Cellular pathways that drive precancerous lesions to form pancreatic tumors identified

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the most common type of pancreatic cancer and has a low five-year survival rate. It begins with a reversible state called acinar-to-ductal metaplasia, where cells can heal after injury ...

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Medical Xpress / An injectable particle could make surgery safer for infants

Biomedical researchers have designed an injectable microgel to help reduce bleeding in infants who require surgical care. In an animal model, the engineered microgel reduced bleeding by at least 50%. The paper, "Hemostatic ...

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Medical Xpress / Immune-capable cervix-on-a-chip enables study of sexually transmitted infections

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) not only impact an individual's health, but also result in multibillion-dollar economic losses worldwide. To study these diseases, a team of researchers has developed the first-of-its-kind, ...

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Medical Xpress / How the human brain builds our sense of time

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how the brain constructs ...

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Medical Xpress / Scientists map how the body traps 'sleeping' tuberculosis

Scientists at James Cook University have uncovered new insights into how the body contains latent tuberculosis, using a cutting-edge technique that allows researchers to map exactly where immune cells and bacteria interact ...

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Medical Xpress / A shift away from traditional antifungal research: Study points toward immune reprogramming to treat candidiasis

Systemic candidiasis is an opportunistic fungal infection that has been difficult to treat effectively. Research published in a paper in the April edition of Cell Host & Microbe suggests that immune metabolic reprogramming ...

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Medical Xpress / Vapes replace cigarettes as the top nicotine threat to young children

While cigarette exposures are decreasing for young children, electronic nicotine products are putting toddlers at new risk of inhalation, according to Rutgers Health researchers. Their study, published in JAMA Network Open, ...

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Medical Xpress / How calcium channel mutations disrupt early brain development in childhood epilepsy

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium channel mutations disrupt early brain development and predispose children to epilepsy and related cognitive ...

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Medical Xpress / Overnight machine perfusion lets liver transplants safely shift to daytime, study shows

It is safe for patients to receive a donor liver that has been intentionally preserved overnight using machine perfusion to enable a daytime transplant. This is shown by a study performed at the University Medical Center ...

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Medical Xpress / Children living near the Salton Sea in Southern California show slower lung function growth

Children who live within 11 kilometers of the Salton Sea, a drying body of water with a high concentration of salts and contaminants in Imperial Valley, California, have slower lung function growth between ages 10 and 12 ...

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Medical Xpress / Research moves closer to 'smart' sensors in knee replacements

If you have a knee replacement, imagine pointing your phone at your knee and pulling up an app that tells you how much stress the artificial joint is experiencing. Knowing the activities that cause the biggest problems—which ...

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Medical Xpress / How an Alzheimer's risk gene disrupts brain circuits long before memory loss

For the millions of people who carry the gene APOE4, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, their brain activity may begin changing long before any memory problems appear. Now, researchers at Gladstone ...

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