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Medical Xpress / Netrin-1 disrupts hepatitis B virus attachment and internalization, offering new treatment path

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects more than 250 million people worldwide and can lead to chronic liver disease and liver cancer. Current antiviral therapies suppress viral replication but do not eliminate the virus, highlighting ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Medical research
Medical Xpress / TIGIT protein inhibition could help immune system target cancer cells

Researchers at the University of Sharjah are exploring a promising approach that could enhance the immune system's ability to fight cancer, potentially paving the way for new treatments.

Dec 23, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Monoclonal antibody shows promising results for rare liver disease

A multicenter study led by UC Davis Health has tested a new treatment designed to improve care for people with a rare liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis. Researchers learned that an anti-inflammatory and ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Inflammatory disorders
Phys.org / Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks

Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also ...

Dec 20, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Over one-quarter of adults in the U.S. experience burdensome health costs

Overall, 17.4% of adults experienced cost burdens and 9.9% experienced catastrophic cost burdens (CCBs) over a four-year period from 2018–2022, according to a study published online Dec. 22 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Dec 23, 2025 in Medical economics
Tech Xplore / Robotic arm successfully learns 1,000 manipulation tasks in one day

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world problems. Most of these robots, however, often perform poorly on tasks that they were not trained on, ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Robotics
Phys.org / Physicists push superconducting diodes to high temperatures

For the first time, researchers in China have demonstrated a high-temperature superconducting diode effect, which allows a supercurrent to flow in both directions. Published in Nature Physics, the team's result could help ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Hidden clay intensified 2011 Japan megaquake, study confirms

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of Japan behaved so unusually as it lifted the seafloor and produced a tsunami that devastated coastal ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Modifying chirality with electricity: Voltage-driven method enables reversible, tunable states

A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto inorganic surfaces, has been demonstrated by researchers at Science Tokyo. By using an electric double-layer ...

Dec 21, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / Surge in serotonin points to new treatment target for schizophrenia

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has provided the first direct evidence that schizophrenia is associated with a greater release of serotonin in the ...

Dec 21, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Intractable intestinal disease treatment: Xenogeneic-free polymer platform shows promise

Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) derived from a patient's own cells have garnered significant attention as a new alternative for treating intractable intestinal diseases due to their low risk of rejection. However, clinical application ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Gastroenterology
Medical Xpress / Patient education can reduce preference for antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria

Receipt of a patient-centered educational leaflet decreases the desire to take antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), according to a study published in the December issue of Open Forum Infectious Diseases.