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Medical Xpress / 3D-printed ATLAS platform helps model cancer cell clusters behind metastasis

Metastasis, the spread of cancer from a primary tumor to other parts of the body, is difficult to study in the lab, in part because researchers lack reliable ways to recreate the conditions cancer cells encounter as they ...

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Medical Xpress / Food fortification already prevents 7 billion nutrient gaps annually, but we could triple its impact

Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is a cheap and effective way to ensure that people have access to nutrients that may be lacking in their normal diets. These efforts have countered debilitating ...

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Medical Xpress / A new immunotherapy target? How SRC-3 in Tregs may reshape solid-tumor treatment

In 2023, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine led by the late Dr. Bert O'Malley discovered that the steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-3) in immune cells called regulatory T cells (Tregs) plays a decisive role in shaping ...

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Medical Xpress / Are heart failure and atrial fibrillation the same disease? Study reveals shared genetic and molecular mechanics

New research from a multi-institutional team, published in Nature Cardiovascular Research, reveals that heart failure and atrial fibrillation share underlying genetic and molecular mechanisms, suggesting that the two cardiovascular ...

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Medical Xpress / Why some cancer therapies don't work for all patients: A tumor backup survival pathway

Drugs that block enzymes called tyrosine kinases are among the most effective targeted therapies for cancer. However, they typically work for only 40% to 80% of the patients who would be expected to respond to them. In a ...

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Medical Xpress / Severe strokes may 'rejuvenate' undamaged brain regions

In a new study published in The Lancet Digital Health, scientists at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) have discovered that the brains of people who experience severe physical ...

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Medical Xpress / Study of 11,000 tumors maps 134 DNA damage signatures across 16 cancers

A team of cancer genomics scientists from The University of Manchester and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, forensically examined the genetic make-up of tumors in 16 different cancers. Their findings, which have ...

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Medical Xpress / Breakdown products from 'eco-friendly' plastics impede fetal development in mice, study shows

When the "eco-friendly" bioplastic, polylactic acid (PLA), biodegrades, the resulting nanoplastics can accumulate in the fetuses of pregnant mice and interfere with fetal growth. Yichao Huang and De-Xiang Xu of Anhui Medical ...

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Medical Xpress / Staying active throughout middle age can cut women's risk of premature death in half

Women who consistently met physical activity guidelines throughout middle age had half the risk of dying from any cause compared to women who remained inactive, according to a paper published in PLOS Medicine by Binh Nguyen ...

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Medical Xpress / Largest genomic study of kidney function in Africa reveals new genetic risk factors

An international research collaboration led by Queen Mary University of London and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa has published the most comprehensive genomic investigation of kidney function ever ...

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Medical Xpress / Astrocytes in the amygdala may play a key role in anxiety

In a study published in Neuron, Ciaran Murphy-Royal, researcher at the Center de recherche du Center hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), and his team show that astrocyte activity in the brain's fear center, ...

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Medical Xpress / Over the past decade, early-stage drug innovation has shifted toward China, researchers find

Early-stage drug development worldwide has nearly doubled over the past decade and shifted from a U.S.-dominated model to a dual hub centered in the United States and China, according to new research described by Georgetown ...

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