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Medical Xpress / Glucose drives STAT3 activation in colorectal cancer cells, leading to tumor growth

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States. Although screening has led to a decrease in incidence over the past 20 years, early-onset colorectal cancer has been rising. Despite advances in surgery ...

Mar 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / One-hour saliva test spots biomarker linked to several cancers

QUT researchers have developed a simple one-hour saliva test for a protein biomarker that has been linked with oral, colon and pancreatic cancers. The findings are published in the journal Talanta.

Mar 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Q&A: How the Dobbs decision and abortion restrictions have changed where medical students apply to residency programs

In the three-and-a-half years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the fragmented state of abortion access has put medical professionals ...

Mar 4, 2026
Phys.org / Mars Express orbiter captures craters on planet's Arabia Terra

Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as the last.

Mar 4, 2026
Phys.org / Physicists discover long-predicted 'clock magnetism' in an atomically thin crystal

Strange things happen to materials when you peel them down, layer by layer, from thick chunks all the way to sheets just an atom thick. Reporting in the journal Nature Materials, a team led by physicists at The University ...

Mar 2, 2026
Phys.org / First 3D reconstruction of the face of 'Little Foot' completed

Identified as the most complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date, "Little Foot" was buried in sediments whose movement and weight caused fractures and deformations, making analysis of its skull—and more particularly ...

Mar 2, 2026
Tech Xplore / Self-cleaning fuel cells? Researchers reveal steam-powered fix for 'sulfur poisoning'

Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that directly convert chemical energy from a fuel into electrical energy. Unlike batteries, which only store electricity, fuel cells can continuously generate electricity as long as ...

Mar 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Open source cancer database created for easier disease study

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and The Johns Hopkins University have created a novel database structure that allows investigators anywhere to more easily study multiple types of cancer data—including ...

Mar 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / CAR T-cell therapy improves survival in relapsed or refractory lymphoma

CAR T-cell immunotherapy improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma, according to a recent clinical trial published in The Lancet. Marginal zone lymphoma ...

Mar 4, 2026
Phys.org / Job listings with wide pay ranges may deter female applicants

Pay range transparency laws that are intended to promote pay equity can inadvertently deter women from applying for those positions, thus perpetuating gender gaps in the workforce, according to research from the Cornell ILR ...

Mar 4, 2026
Phys.org / Stale bread and bacteria could power a new era in green chemicals

Scientists have found a way to use common bacteria as tiny, green chemical factories to replace a process that currently relies on fossil fuels. In industrial hydrogenation, the hydrogen added to molecules to create products ...

Feb 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / No more weekly injections? How lettuce cells could deliver GLP-1 pills

Research led by Penn Dental's Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.

Mar 4, 2026