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Medical Xpress / Lab-grown heart tissue beats on its own as sensors track force in real time

Scientists at Université de Montréal and its affiliated Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine have made a major advance in their research into cardiovascular disease: They've created functional, three-dimensional ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / How a tiny cellular signal helps shape the human heart

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to serious congenital heart ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / New tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease

More than 100 million people in the United States suffer from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), characterized by a buildup of fat in the liver. This condition can lead to the development of ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / 'Personal lives' of lung cancer cells help predict response to treatment

University of Queensland researchers who mapped cancer cell "neighborhoods" in the most common type of lung cancer have found cell metabolism plays a critical role in determining how lung cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy. ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Computational models predict neural activity for re-establishing connectivity after stroke or injury

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) School of Engineering have developed a novel reinforcement learning–based generative model to predict neural signals, creating an artificial information ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Duplicate medical records linked to 5-fold heightened risk of inpatient death

Patients with duplicate medical records are five times more likely to die after being admitted to hospital and three times more likely to require intensive care than those with a single medical record, reveals US research ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Medical economics
Medical Xpress / Physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women is comparable, current evidence suggests

Transgender women might have more muscle mass than cisgender women one to three years after hormone therapy, but their physical fitness is comparable, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online ...

Medical Xpress / Sleep medication linked to safer outcomes than antipsychotics for older adults with delirium

A large U.S. study suggests that older adults hospitalized with delirium may experience better outcomes when treated with trazodone, commonly used to treat depression and sleep problems, rather than commonly used antipsychotic ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Grief best managed through talk therapy, evidence shows

Talk therapy is the best way to ease grief and depression following the death of a loved one, a new evidence review has concluded.

Feb 3, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Backward walking study results may help to improve mobility and decrease falls in multiple sclerosis patients

A collaborative team of researchers and students from Wayne State University's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Institute of Gerontology ...

Medical Xpress / Babies are born to learn—and they learn by moving

In her 35 years as a psychologist, NTNU researcher Audrey van der Meer has studied everything from baby swimming to what infants learn before they are born. At the core of her work is the idea that babies are born to learn—and ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Novel antibody targets fat cell protein, offering new approach to treating metabolism-related liver cancer

Liver cancer is one of the three deadliest cancers worldwide, and metabolic dysfunction-related cases have become increasingly common in recent years. A research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer