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Medical Xpress / An allergy-free future? mRNA vaccine prevents dangerous reactions in mice exposed to allergens
A new mRNA vaccine stopped allergens from causing dangerous immune reactions and life-threatening inflammation in mice, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Cincinnati ...
Medical Xpress / How gene mutations drive dementia in Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease causes both movement and cognitive deficits, and for a long time both were thought to be caused by the accumulation of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. But a new Nature Communications study ...
Medical Xpress / Study shows HPV vaccine protects vaccinated and even unvaccinated women
A large, long-term study led by an Albert Einstein College of Medicine researcher has found that the introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in community settings is highly effective in protecting young women ...
Medical Xpress / Novel immunotherapy targets common cancer mutation, offering hope for lung and prostate cancer patients
Researchers at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital have developed a promising new immunotherapy targeting the CTNNB1 gene mutation associated with various aggressive cancers such as lung and prostate cancer. ...
Medical Xpress / Smart blood: How AI reads your body's aging signals
Could a simple blood test reveal how well someone is aging? A team of researchers led by Wolfram Weckwerth from the University of Vienna, Austria, and Nankai University, China, has combined advanced metabolomics with cutting-edge ...
Medical Xpress / Fiber-optic method allows real-time monitoring of Alzheimer's plaques in freely behaving mice
Alzheimer's disease is marked by the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain, but most ways of studying these deposits in mouse models require sacrificing the animals. That limits researchers' ability to follow how the disease ...
Medical Xpress / Enlarged cancer cell nuclei may limit spread rather than signal severity
In tissue biopsies, cancer cells are frequently observed to have nuclei (the cell's genetic information storage) that are larger than normal. Until now, this was considered a sign that the cancer was worsening, but the exact ...
Medical Xpress / AI distinguishes glioblastoma from look-alike cancers during surgery
A Harvard Medical School–led research team has developed an AI tool that can reliably tell apart two look-alike cancers found in the brain but with different origins, behaviors, and treatments.
Medical Xpress / Permethrin-treated baby wraps cut malaria cases in Ugandan children
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Ugandan and international collaborators, report that permethrin-treated baby wraps reduced clinical malaria cases in young children compared with sham-treated ...
Medical Xpress / 'Alarming' rise in newborn babies with antibiotic-resistant infections, researchers find
Researchers are calling for an urgent overhaul of diagnostic and treatment guidelines for infections in newborn babies, after a University of Sydney-led study revealed frontline treatments for sepsis are no longer effective ...
Medical Xpress / Blood-brain barrier remains resilient in widely used Alzheimer's disease model, challenging previous assumptions
A team of scientists at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) has published new evidence suggesting that the brain's protective shield—known as the blood-brain barrier (BBB)—remains largely intact in a ...
Medical Xpress / One-hour, low-cost HPV test could transform cervical cancer screening in Africa and beyond
A team of researchers led by Rice University, in collaboration with colleagues in Mozambique and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has developed a simple, affordable human papillomavirus (HPV) test that delivers ...
