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Medical Xpress / Electrotherapy using injectable nanoparticles offers hope for glioblastoma treatment
Electrotherapy using injectable nanoparticles delivered directly into the tumor could pave the way for new treatment options for glioblastoma, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden.
Medical Xpress / Why some people with HIV achieve remission after antibody treatment
Researchers led by a team from Mass General Brigham and the Ragon Institute have discovered why some people living with HIV who are given a treatment called broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies (bNAbs) can safely stop ...
Medical Xpress / More accessible urban parks linked with greater physical activity across US cities
The health benefits of nature are well-known, but its role in encouraging day-to-day physical activity across different regions and demographics has been less clear. This question carries new urgency as the world faces a ...
Medical Xpress / Why strange cures made sense in mysterious times
Feeding bread to a donkey to treat whooping cough, rubbing a black snail on a wart and impaling it on a thorn are two of the hundreds of remarkable rural Irish remedies once believed to cure ailments.
Medical Xpress / Hormone-disrupting chemicals from plastics shown to promote a chronic inflammatory skin condition
A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide evidence that hormone-disrupting ...
Medical Xpress / New technique maps genetic variants driving neurodegenerative disease risk
Disease development is often shaped by genetics, with how much or how little a gene is expressed influencing disease risk. While advances in technology and sequencing methods have led to a greater understanding of gene structure, ...
Medical Xpress / Long-term HIV control: Combination therapy points way to a possible cure
A new study from UC San Francisco shows it may be possible to control HIV without long-term antiviral treatment—an advance that points the way toward a possible cure for a disease that affects 40 million people around the ...
Medical Xpress / Landscape of KRAS mutations and targeted therapies in colorectal cancer mapped in new study
A team of researchers from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) has studied alterations in the KRAS gene in colorectal cancer by combining genomic analyses with a systematic ...
Medical Xpress / Mutant GFAP disrupts mitochondrial fission in astrocytes, offering insight into Alexander disease
Some brain disorders are straightforward, such as the direct frontal lobe assault of a concussion or traumatic brain injury. Others, like Alexander disease, are akin to guerrilla warfare. Patients suffering from this genetic ...
Medical Xpress / Unexpected pathway for IgA antibody production may help improve vaccines
Scientists led by Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, Ph.D., the Roy and Elaine Patterson Professor of Medicine and director of the Center for Human Immunobiology, have discovered how critical IgA antibodies are produced through unexpected ...
Medical Xpress / Fatty food smells during pregnancy may raise obesity risk in offspring
A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has found that the smell of fatty foods during pregnancy increases the risk of overweight and obesity in children. The researchers fed pregnant mice a healthy ...
Medical Xpress / Inflammation and metabolic stress combine to drive a new cell death pathway—mitoxyperilysis
In several disease conditions, including infections and cancers, innate immune activation and nutrient scarcity occur together. A study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, published in Cell, found that this combination ...
