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Medical Xpress / Billions lack access to healthy diets, but solutions are within reach, says new report
Food systems are key drivers of the world's most urgent challenges, from chronic diseases and rising inequality to accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss, according to the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy, ...
Medical Xpress / Algae-based gel offers new tool for breast cancer research
In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of her experiment—the gel needed to grow and test mammary epithelial cells—wouldn't be available ...
Medical Xpress / Herpes viruses cultivated from different cell lines display distinct biological properties, research reveals
Matthew Taylor likened his recently published work alongside doctoral student Gary Dunn to kicking over a rock. Once the discovery was made, it was time to see what lay beneath.
Medical Xpress / Protein engineering toolset boosts efficacy of CAR-T cells targeting blood and solid cancers
Cancer researchers focused on improving the success of cancer immunotherapies introduced a new tool in a Yale study published in Nature Chemical Biology.
Medical Xpress / Findings on a toxic HIV molecule pave way for clinical drug trial
What if the presence of a well-known but misunderstood viral protein explains why some people living with HIV (PLWH) never recover their health, even with antiretroviral treatment?
Medical Xpress / Kids are not getting as much sleep as their parents think, study reveals
While many parents assume that putting a child to bed means they will quickly be asleep, a new study from researchers at Brown University found that's often not the case.
Medical Xpress / Introducing the 'human repairome,' a catalog of DNA 'scars' that may help define personalized cancer treatments
You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical research published in the journal Science by the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO). It is ...
Medical Xpress / Garbage-collecting immune cells can protect insulin production in pancreas
Approximately 9.5 million people globally live with type 1 diabetes, a chronic autoimmune disease where T cells from the body's immune system destroy insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, which are needed to control blood-sugar ...
Medical Xpress / Molecular mapping method enables researchers to investigate the cause of heart diseases
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a method that allows for the analysis of thousands of proteins in heart tissue. This provides entirely new insights into the characteristics of heart diseases and ...
Medical Xpress / Newly recognized pathway could protect diabetics from hypoglycemia
A new study by the University of California, Davis, shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar. Understanding these feedback loops could improve the lives of people with diabetes and help them avoid ...
Medical Xpress / Model reveals mental health gains outweigh physical health in predicting life satisfaction
In the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health, Steve Haake from Sheffield Hallam University and colleagues present a model for evaluating life satisfaction. They demonstrate their model using participants in a weekly ...
Medical Xpress / Air pollution particles discovered hitching a ride around the body on red blood cells
Researchers have found the first direct evidence that tiny particles of air pollution stick to red blood cells, meaning they can travel freely around the body.
