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Medical Xpress / Gentle implant can illuminate, listen and deliver medication to the brain

A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such as epilepsy. Researchers from DTU, the University of Copenhagen, University College London, and ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Immune cells linked to Epstein-Barr virus may play a role in multiple sclerosis

Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a new clue to how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) could contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects nearly one million Americans. The work found ...

Medical Xpress / Trojan horse delivery system uses gold nanoparticles to drive mRNA into tumors

University of Oklahoma researchers have created a new drug delivery system that helps cancer cells take in much more of a treatment, improving its ability to kill tumors. The findings are published in Science Advances.

Feb 5, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / AI tool predicts brain age, cancer survival and other disease signals from unlabeled brain MRIs

Mass General Brigham investigators have developed a robust new artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model that is capable of analyzing brain MRI datasets to perform numerous medical tasks, including identifying brain age, ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Health informatics
Medical Xpress / Family dinners may reduce substance-use risk for many adolescents

A new study by researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine finds that regular family dinners may help prevent substance use for a majority of U.S. adolescents, but suggests that the strategy is not effective for youth ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Health
Medical Xpress / High ultra-processed food diets linked to 47% higher cardiovascular disease risk

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially modified products loaded with added fats, sugars, starches, salts and chemical additives like emulsifiers. From sodas to snacks and processed meats, these foods are stripped of ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Health
Medical Xpress / Powerful AI can help diagnose substance use disorder, could speed treatment

Diagnosing substance-use disorder can be difficult because of patient denial related to the stigma attached to addiction. Now a study by the University of Cincinnati has used a novel artificial intelligence to predict substance-use-defining ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Health informatics
Medical Xpress / 4D-printed vascular stent deploys at body temperature, eliminating external heating

Next-generation vascular stents can make cardiovascular therapies minimally invasive and vascular treatments safe and less burdensome. In a new advancement, researchers from Japan and China have successfully proposed a novel ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Surgery
Medical Xpress / How shift work and irregular eating impact your liver body clock

Shift work and irregular eating patterns could affect liver function and disrupt its delicate circadian rhythm, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Meltem Weger from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience ...

Medical Xpress / Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests

During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right.

Feb 5, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / 'Missing link' protein key to restoring disorganized blood vessels

Blood flows around the body through a complex network of vessels, which must constantly adapt to changing needs. The balance between growing new vessels and stabilizing existing vessels, so they aren't leaky, must be finely ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Medical research
Medical Xpress / Targeting HIV's hidden reservoirs: Lab-enhanced natural killer cells show promise

More than 30 million people with HIV must take antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications daily to keep the virus under control, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The drugs are effective ...

Feb 5, 2026 in HIV & AIDS