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Medical Xpress / A new class of Alzheimer's biomarkers: Why protein shape may beat protein levels
Researchers have identified a new type of blood-based biomarker test for Alzheimer's disease that measures structural changes in proteins, providing more information on the underlying biology of the disease than standard ...
Medical Xpress / Report highlights dangers of red-light laser myopia therapy for children
As red-light laser therapy gains popularity in Asia for slowing myopia in children, reports of vision damage have emerged, prompting a University of Houston optometry researcher to evaluate the procedure and call for further ...
Medical Xpress / Long-living wild mouse may hold secret to healthy aging
When it comes to health, some of our animal neighbors have extraordinary advantages. Ostriches, for example, are highly resistant to viruses, while sharks rarely develop cancer. And species like naked mole rats and bowhead ...
Medical Xpress / Engineered immune cells show promise against brain metastases in preclinical study
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has identified a promising strategy to treat brain metastases, one of the most challenging and deadly complications of lung cancer. The research team ...
Medical Xpress / Smartphone tutorial can help people understand personal chemical exposure reports
Flame retardants, plasticizers, and "forever" chemicals are common in household items like cookware and cosmetics. But these materials that people are exposed to every day have also been linked to health issues like decreased ...
Medical Xpress / Immune cells retain a 'molecular memory' of their tissue location, study shows
A new AI-based method reconstructs spatial information about where immune cells were originally located in an organ, even after these cells have been removed from the tissue and analyzed individually. To accomplish this, ...
Medical Xpress / How does a developing brain self-organize? Cell lineage may guide neuron placement
Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neuroscientists ...
Medical Xpress / Rectal cancer incidence rising after decades of decline as colorectal cancer shifts toward younger generations
Colorectal cancer rates in the United States are moving in two very different directions, according to a new report released today from the American Cancer Society (ACS). While the disease continues to decline among older ...
Medical Xpress / Improve education and transitional support for autistic people to prevent death by suicide, say experts
Suicide in autistic people originates in the inequalities they face across their lives, starting in childhood, and spanning education to employment, and health and social care, a new study by a team at Cambridge and Bournemouth ...
Medical Xpress / Growth hormone receptor could serve as possible target for improving lung cancer treatment
Researchers at Ohio University have discovered what may be a new way to fight lung cancer that is resistant to other treatments. The study, published in the International Journal of Molecular Science and led by Goll-Ohio ...
Medical Xpress / AI analysis finds no clear brain-structure link to navigation in young adults
Steven Weisberg, a researcher at the University of Texas at Arlington, found that advanced artificial intelligence tools could not uncover a clear link between brain structure and navigation ability in healthy young adults—challenging ...
Medical Xpress / New drug could boost efforts to wipe out sleeping sickness
A new treatment for sleeping sickness could make it much easier to treat and possibly eliminate the deadly disease.
