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Medical Xpress / Million-cell map of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy could pave the way for precision treatments

An international team led by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany has created a detailed map of the molecular activity underlying ...

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Ultrasound may offer a noninvasive way to manage deep muscle stiffness

Muscle strain injuries are a common problem in sports, and injuries to the triceps surae, the calf muscle group that includes the gastrocnemius and soleus, can significantly affect athletic performance and return to play. ...

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain circuit linked to food cravings during pregnancy identified

Why do food cravings become so strong during pregnancy? Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in collaboration with colleagues, have identified a brain mechanism that may help explain how pregnancy changes ...

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Screening method identifies leukemia drug candidates from more than 4 million compounds

A cancer cell behaves differently from a healthy cell, with unique features that enable rapid growth and bypass quality controls. Rice University's Natasha Kirienko is interested in finding these unique features and exploiting ...

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Restored thyroid receptor makes aggressive tumors more vulnerable to CAR-T cell therapy

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a strategy that could help chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, overcome a major barrier to treating solid tumors: Cancer cells can change in ways that allow ...

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / B cells may help predict risk of colitis from immunotherapy

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown role for B cells, adaptive immune cells, in triggering and sustaining colitis as a side effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors, ...

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / A single protein may help aggressive breast cancer spread to the brain and evade immune defenses

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have identified a protein that may help an aggressive form of breast cancer spread to the brain and escape the body's immune defenses.

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Large study finds no added risk of rare artery tear following chiropractic neck care

Getting your neck adjusted by a chiropractor does not appear to raise the risk of a rare but serious artery injury, according to a large observational study from a multidisciplinary collaboration including researchers at ...

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Seven ways coffee affects your body beyond caffeine, from gut microbes to iron

Coffee is best known, and perhaps most valued, for its caffeine and its ability to make us feel more awake and alert. But coffee is much more than caffeine dissolved in hot water.

Sep 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Children's pupils may reveal shifting attention in ADHD, especially when off medication

The eyes are more than lenses to the outside world; they can also be windows that offer a glimpse into what's happening inside our bodies. What if the eyes could help us understand how attention shifts from one moment to ...

Sep 17, 2026
Medical Xpress / Plasticizer exposure during pregnancy linked to increased autism- and ADHD-related symptoms in children

The foundations of brain development are laid during a crucial period of pregnancy, and a common household plasticizer called DEHP may be quietly interfering with this process. Scientists have now found that prenatal exposure ...

Sep 17, 2026
Medical Xpress / Smooth-gradient fMRI technique could improve brain mapping during behavior

Neuroscientists and medical researchers now have a wide range of imaging techniques to study the brain and its activity. One of the most widely used is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a noninvasive technique ...

Sep 17, 2026