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Medical Xpress / Data highlight progress toward personalized stem cell therapy for Parkinson's disease
Interim clinical findings from the first Phase I/IIa trial using autologous-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived dopamine neuron precursor cells, along with the novel quality-control tools developed to manufacture ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover hormone link between gut and brain in anorexia nervosa
People with anorexia nervosa have unusually high levels of a hormone called LEAP2 in their blood when they are in the acute phase of the disorder, according to research presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers expand plasmonic liquid biopsy platform to early-stage colorectal cancer
A research team led by Minyoung Lee and Sunggyu Park of The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) Bio & Health Materials Research Division has developed a plasmonic-based liquid biopsy platform capable of ultrasensitive ...
Medical Xpress / What do Sardinia's Blue Zone elders do differently that helps them age so well physically and mentally?
People are living longer than they did at the turn of the 20th century, but living well into old age depends on more than a healthy lifestyle. Scientists say it is also shaped by how we think, adapt and connect with others.
Medical Xpress / A long‑standing mystery in the deadliest breast cancer just yielded 81 new treatment targets
Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery of how abnormal chromosomes drive cancer, identifying 81 new genes involved in aggressive breast cancer. The discovery expands understanding of the cellular processes behind ...
Medical Xpress / Most obesity drugs do not improve quality of life or heart health, analysis indicates
Despite substantial weight loss, most obesity drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro do not meaningfully improve quality of life, and few show cardiovascular benefits at one year, according to an analysis of the latest evidence ...
Medical Xpress / The secret of human intelligence may lie in the power of a single brain cell
What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view was that the secret of human intelligence lay mainly in scale: the sheer number of neurons in the ...
Medical Xpress / Surgeons use teleoperated humanoid robots to perform live surgery—a world first
For the first time, two teleoperated humanoid robots have been used to complete two surgeries during a preclinical trial, researchers report in the July 8 issue of the journal Nature. The work is the result of a collaboration ...
Medical Xpress / Alcohol drives opposite brain circuit changes in amyloid and tau Alzheimer's models
Alcohol use has been associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia. But new research from Texas A&M University's Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health suggests the relationship between ...
Medical Xpress / Lung transplant dramatically improves survival for patients with terminal lung cancer, study finds
A landmark Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA suggests lung transplantation can significantly extend survival in select patients with advanced lung cancer.
Medical Xpress / Decline in work productivity found 15 years before early-onset dementia diagnosis
People diagnosed with early-onset dementia had reduced work productivity up to 15 years before diagnosis, according to a study published in Neurology. Researchers also found the number of years of lower productivity varied ...
Medical Xpress / New, improved method to find and isolate the strongest cancer-fighting immune cells
A new platform developed by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center quickly finds and isolates rare, tumor-reactive immune cells that are especially good at recognizing and attacking cancer cells, ...
