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Medical Xpress / Targeted maternal screening could prevent rare, deadly leukemia in the US

A deadly form of leukemia may be stopped before it ever develops by introducing targeted maternal screening in the United States, according to new research. The national study, led by physician-scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive ...

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Medical Xpress / A gene that keeps intestinal stem cells stable offers insight into how tissues repair themselves

Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, Ph.D., was a postdoctoral scientist at Gladstone Institutes, studying genes. There, he helped discover ...

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Medical Xpress / Two people, same weight, vastly different futures: New tool exposes obesity danger before disease strikes

The study, published in Nature Medicine, shows that future risk of 18 obesity-related diseases can be predicted using 20 commonly collected health measures, such as blood test results and demographic information. The tool ...

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Medical Xpress / A study in 1.4 million women expands knowledge on endometriosis and its biological complexity

Endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects approximately one in ten women of reproductive age—around 190 million worldwide—remains poorly understood from a biological perspective, which has historically hindered ...

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Medical Xpress / Scientists discover new way to make drug-resistant cancer treatable again

Cancer cells survive by repairing damage to their DNA—even damage that would normally be fatal. One of their most important defense systems is homologous recombination, a high-precision repair pathway that fixes broken DNA ...

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Medical Xpress / Silencing stress signals could pave the way to a longer life

Silencing a major cellular stress signal could be the key to a longer life, according to new University of Sheffield research. While previous studies suggested that mild stress might help organisms live longer, new research ...

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Medical Xpress / How the brain rapidly switches between internal and external processing

A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain processes information through large-scale network changes. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, ...

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Medical Xpress / New AI-powered robotic system performs heart ultrasounds without guidance

A Concordia-led team of researchers has developed a new AI-driven robotic system that can perform cardiac ultrasound scans autonomously. The researchers say this approach could expand access to cardiac imaging in remote or ...

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Medical Xpress / Novel theranostic approach for radioimmunotherapy achieves curative responses in colorectal cancer tumors

A new pretargeted radioimmunotherapy (PRIT) technique has been shown to be safe and effective in eradicating tumors from a preclinical colorectal cancer model. The multi-step theranostic approach delivers alpha-emitting radiation ...

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Medical Xpress / Task switching raises risk in transplant surgeries, study finds

When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8%, according to new Virginia Tech research. The findings suggest that scheduling ...

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Medical Xpress / Rare myocarditis after mRNA vaccination: Mitochondrial stress identified as a key factor

Myocarditis is recognized as a rare but serious adverse reaction to messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination against COVID-19. Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that mRNA vaccination induces the generation of ...

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Medical Xpress / Caregivers of ovarian cancer patients face high stress and major gaps in support

A new scoping review from the University of Toronto reveals that caregivers of loved ones with ovarian cancer face significant emotional strain, heavy caregiving responsibilities, and limited support throughout the disease ...

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