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Medical Xpress / Irradiation may help CAR-T cell therapy work better against solid tumors

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a promising new way to improve CAR-T cell therapy for solid tumors such as lung cancer and melanoma. The study, published in Nature Cancer, found ...

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Copper imbalance tied to autism's social symptoms and white matter development

Trace elements are needed only in small amounts, but they can have large effects on the developing brain. A research team led by Niigata University has now reported that copper, an essential trace element, may help connect ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / The hum that only a few can perceive: Potential sources of a low-frequency sound

Some people occasionally hear a low buzzing or humming sound that doesn't have a clear source. An estimated 2–4% of the world's population hear this. Scientists have been trying to figure out for decades where this sound ...

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Medical Xpress / Brain 'growth charts' map white matter changes across the human lifespan

Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have created one of the largest reference models ever developed for the human brain, ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Blood proteins may flag diabetic retinal degeneration before symptoms appear

An AI-assisted model based on 71 different blood proteins could help doctors better predict retinal degeneration in diabetic patients before symptoms occur, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine by Huangdong Li ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Engineered gut bacteria match fecal transplants in small C. difficile trial

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new manufacturing platform for producing targeted mixtures of beneficial gut bacteria, an approach that could help expand access to microbiome-based ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart

MIT engineers have developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design could one day provide a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Nursing home staffing declined in states that protected facilities from COVID-19 malpractice lawsuits, study finds

Nursing homes across the country had less staffing in states where legislatures granted the facilities immunity from COVID-19-related lawsuits filed by patients and their families, according to findings from a new UCLA-led ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Custom 4D-printed implants offer less painful path to tissue reconstruction

Tissue expansion is a common technique used in reconstructive surgery. Surgeons slowly stretch nearby skin to grow extra tissue that can be used to rebuild areas such as the ear, breast, or nose.

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / 'Accidental' flu virus discovery lays foundation for novel treatment strategies

Scientists investigating how influenza viruses replicate within cells "accidentally" discovered that different flu viruses use distinct strategies to infiltrate cells in the first place. They also found that it is possible ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / AI helps accelerate breast cancer diagnosis for high-risk women

Women with abnormal mammograms often have to wait for weeks to find out whether they have breast cancer. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found a way to help reduce the wait and the worry by using ...

14 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Existing drug enhances muscle repair during GLP-1 weight-loss treatment in mice

Millions of Americans are currently taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic or Wegovy for weight loss. But along with the fat, many are quietly losing something else: muscle. Unlike fat, muscle doesn't return quickly, and ...

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