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Medical Xpress / Blood and gene tests predict Alzheimer's symptoms three to six years ahead
Columbia University researchers have identified a way to help predict when people at high risk of developing Alzheimer's are likely to develop their first symptoms, a finding that could help physicians decide when to prescribe ...
Medical Xpress / Brain aging may be detected decades before symptoms appear, with links to gut health
A new UCLA study has found a connection between how quickly the brain ages and the bacteria and chemical byproducts found in the gut, offering a clue to what drives brain aging long before symptoms appear.
Medical Xpress / New findings link obesity to loss of natural breast cancer protection
A research team at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) has found that obesity prevents a biological process that kills cancerous cells, revealing a possible reason obesity is a risk factor for breast ...
Medical Xpress / New 'smart' nanoparticles help the immune system better attack tumors
Adelaide University researchers have developed a new way to use mRNA technology to reprogram tumor-supporting immune cells and strengthen the body's anticancer immune response.
Medical Xpress / The brain's blood vessels may hold a key to Alzheimer's—and protection from it
Alzheimer's disease is one of the most feared diagnoses among older adults, particularly for those who know they carry a high-risk gene that magnifies their odds. But even many people with this gene—APOE ε4—dodge the disease ...
Medical Xpress / Carbon monoxide linked to lower Parkinson's risk, opening potential new treatment pathway
A study of more than half a million adults has found that higher levels of exhaled carbon monoxide were associated with a lower risk of Parkinson's disease. The findings, published in JAMA Neurology, uncover a possible new ...
Medical Xpress / New video game could help reveal how people with autism perceive the world
People with autism often come at life from a different angle—seeing details others miss, focusing on patterns rather than faces, experiencing heightened or dimmed physical sensations. Although researchers have tracked some ...
Medical Xpress / New brain atlas shows neurons don't inherit their identity—they build it in their first hours of life
A brain contains hundreds or thousands of different kinds of neurons, each with its own shape, connections and function. Yet all of them arise from a comparatively small pool of dividing neural stem cells. How does a newly-born ...
Medical Xpress / First-in-human study attacks inoperable pancreatic tumors with laser light
UCI Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, is conducting a first-in-human, Phase I clinical trial using laser light to target localized but inoperable pancreatic tumors to help patients become ...
Medical Xpress / Mechanism behind dangerous blood-clotting disorder uncovered
A cross-campus team of McMaster University researchers has identified why some patients develop dangerous blood clots after exposure to a common blood thinner—and a potential way to prevent them.
Medical Xpress / Chemotherapy alters 'Darwinian battleground' in our bodies
Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy, give a growth advantage to cells with particular genetic changes in healthy tissue, new research finds.
Medical Xpress / Two newly implicated genes reveal why some patients' cilia cannot clear mucus in the lungs
Hair-like appendages called motile cilia beat in synchrony on cells in many parts of the body to keep fluids and particles moving, such as clearing mucus in the lungs so it can be coughed out.
