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Medical Xpress / Study reveals how leukemia cells enter and damage lungs

Led by NYU Langone Health researchers, a new study shows how blood cancer cells enter the lungs, damage tissue and cause severe breathing problems.

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder show shared brain gene expression changes

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Lieber Institute for Brain Development have identified substantial similarities in brain gene activity among people with eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / How the brain's physical shape guides its internal wiring

A new study led by Monash University researchers has shed light on the factors shaping the intricate wiring of our brains. The research, published in the journal Cell, reveals that the brain's complex wiring diagram, known ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Could one shot replace weekly GLP-1 drugs? DNA approach shows months-long effects in mice

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instruction can produce weight loss and blood glucose control in murine models that lasts up to 10 times as long ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Fish-inspired sensor tracks how human heart tissue responds to disease and treatment

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ripples they create. The team has created a wireless, noninvasive sensing platform that can biomechanically ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Intestinal cells starve Salmonella of essential nutrients, revealing new tactic in infection defense

Salmonella, an infection that causes diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain, is the most common form of bacterial food poisoning in the U.S., sickening more than a million people each year. Although most healthy people recover ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Large multiple sclerosis brain cohort reveals biological differences linked to disease severity

Why does multiple sclerosis progress quickly in some people, while others remain stable for years? Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have identified biological patterns in the brain that may help ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Meaning of abstract art may be highly personal and connected to memory

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can stir something deep or nothing at all. According to research from Duke University, the difference may ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Mouse model supports long-held belief that viruses can trigger Parkinson's disease

Scientists usually use animal models when studying Parkinson's disease because these models mimic the disease well. They are limited, however, because they require either gene modifications or the injection of toxicants, ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Scalable mindfulness model can help treat chronic low back pain

Low back pain affects over 600 million people and is the single leading cause of disability worldwide. New research from Boston Medical Center (BMC), the largest essential hospital in New England, suggests that the Optimizing ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Diabetes linked to worse long COVID outcomes

People with diabetes who have had COVID-19 tend to recover more slowly, experience more long COVID complications, have a poorer quality of life, and require closer and more prolonged monitoring by medical teams. This was ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Faded letters, early warnings: A new clue for aging eyes

Struggling to read more than six lines on an eye chart with fading letters may serve as a visual "yellow light" for older adults—raising red flags that routine exams sometimes fail to detect. A new University of Michigan ...

Jun 29, 2026