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Medical Xpress / Cats are opening a powerful new front in the fight to understand virus-caused cancer

Cats are not just beloved companions; they are emerging as key "research partners" in unraveling viral cancer mechanisms. A team led by Professor Julia Beatty, Chair Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Chemotherapy followed by letrozole sets standard for advanced, low-grade serous gynecologic carcinoma

Late-breaking results from the Phase III NRG GY019 trial indicate that letrozole monotherapy (L) did not demonstrate noninferiority to paclitaxel/carboplatin followed by letrozole (PC/L) for progression-free survival (PFS) ...

15 hours ago
Phys.org / What is the chance of a message in a bottle being found?

Recently, a cheerful 100-year-old message in a bottle was found on the south-west coast of Australia. In it, a World War One soldier proclaimed to be "as happy as Larry."

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Smart OLED patch uses light to automate drug delivery, doubling healing speed

Instead of applying ointment and attaching a bandage, a "smart patch that regulates treatment intensity on its own just by being attached" has appeared. A research team has developed a "self-regulating OLED wound healing ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Feeling distracted? How hobbies can help you find 'flow state' and save your brain

We live in what has been called the "distraction economy": an environment full of triggers that are engineered to demand our attention at every turn. The result is often fragmented attention, loss of focus, and sometimes ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Teaching critical thinking may help teens resist fake news, AI slop and online harm

Social media is where teenagers spend most of their time, either scrolling and sharing, or sometimes falling into the traps of fake news, toxic content and online drama. But what if we could equip our young people to challenge ...

16 hours ago
Phys.org / A counterintuitive molecular behavior opens new possibilities for cancer radiotherapy

A new study led by researchers at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) reveals why a particular boron-rich molecule, called o-FESAN, behaves in an unusually helpful way, remaining intercalated into ...

21 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Newly identified RPN1 disease helps explain how protein damage can disrupt early brain development

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators have used a genetic sequencing technique called whole exome sequencing to discover a new rare genetic disease. In ...

16 hours ago
Tech Xplore / AIs have 'personalities': Here's how they affect you more deeply than you may realize

Many people are interacting with AI large language models, and most of them would say the models have different "personalities." Some models come across as calm and useful. Others feel eager, flattering or strangely cold. ...

19 hours ago
Phys.org / The moon just got a new scar

Look up at a full moon on a clear night and you are staring at a face that has been punched, gouged, and battered for 4 billion years. Those dark patches are vast basins blasted open by impacts so colossal they reshaped a ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / A child's headache, dizziness and mental fog now stand out as the clearest concussion red flags

Knowing whether a child has sustained a concussion is an important matter to clinicians, parents and bystanders alike. However, the signs and symptoms that are most meaningful to look for are not as well defined. A study ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Long-term childhood poverty rose sharply after austerity reforms in UK, study finds

New research from the University of Oxford finds that more than one in five children born after 2013 experience poverty for at least half of their childhood (from birth to age ten). The study provides the first comprehensive ...

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