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Medical Xpress / Machine learning identifies statin and phenothiazine combo for neuroblastoma treatment

Using machine learning and a large volume of data on genes and existing drugs, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a combination of statins and phenothiazines that is particularly promising in the treatment ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / AI-powered knowledge graph links heart images to genes and drug predictions

Knowledge graphs are a powerful tool for bringing together information from biological databases and linking what is already known about genes, diseases, treatments, molecular pathways and symptoms in a structured network. ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / Everyday conversations can delay eye movements, essential for safe driving

Talking while driving is widely recognized as a major source of distraction, but the specific ways conversation interferes with the earliest stages of visual processing have remained largely unclear. While previous research ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / 'Attentional bias' reveals deep connection between numbers and space in the brain

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied the relationship between numerical information in our vision, and how it affects our perception of space.

Dec 29, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Inhibiting PGAM-Chk1 binding in the senescent cells of mice appears to slow aging

Aged and frail people often suffer a decline in tissue reserve capacity during aging. This reserve, called resilience, helps the body maintain homeostasis through various defense, compensation, modulation, and repair responses. ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Medical Xpress / Blocking a key gene regulator may restore immune response in cancer therapy

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized cancer therapy by harnessing the body's immune system to target tumors. Despite their initial clinical success, many patients eventually experience diminished therapeutic ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Candida auris spreads globally as drug resistance and virulence increase, review finds

The fungal species Candida auris is spreading across the globe, and gaining in virulence, according to a new review by a Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) scientist and colleagues.

Medical Xpress / AI model forecasts speech development in deaf children after cochlear implants

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes with 92% accuracy from one to three years after patients received cochlear implants (implanted ...

Medical Xpress / How stroke influences speech comprehension

Following a stroke, some people experience a language disorder that hinders their ability to process speech sounds. How do their brains change from stroke?

Dec 29, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / AI-designed protein shows 50% greater anti-inflammatory effect in animal studies

A research team has developed a next-generation anti-inflammatory protein using AI and supercomputing.

Dec 29, 2025 in Inflammatory disorders
Medical Xpress / Low-dose peanut therapy shown to protect children with peanut allergies

Children with peanut allergies may not need large doses of peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) to build protection against peanuts, finds a new study led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Montreal Children's Hospital.

Dec 29, 2025 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / How doubting your doubts may increase your commitment to goals

When it comes to our most important long-term goals in life, it is not uncommon to face obstacles that may lead us to doubt whether we can achieve our ambitions.

Dec 29, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry