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Medical Xpress / Genetic modifier of Friedreich's ataxia points toward treatment for devastating disorder

Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder. Those with the condition are often diagnosed between 5 and 15 years of age and live only into their 30s or 40s. There is no widely approved treatment that ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Novel 'body-swap' robot provides insights into how the brain keeps us upright

Imagine driving a car with a steering that doesn't respond instantly and a GPS that always reflects where you were a second ago. To stay on course, you must constantly infer how to steer the wheel from outdated information.

Dec 11, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Pain misconceptions push 1 in 4 people toward spinal surgery

If you live with constant lower back pain, surgery can start to look like the only way out. Yet new research from the University of South Australia published in the Australian Health Review shows that it's mindset, more than ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Pulmonary fibrosis traced to key signaling pathway

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease in which healthy lung tissue is gradually replaced by scar tissue. While the early events that initiate this change are poorly understood, recent research suggests ...

Medical Xpress / In pneumonia's tug-of-war, lung microbiome could tip the balance

Northwestern University scientists have potentially uncovered a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In a new study, scientists found the lungs' own microbial community, or microbiome, appears to influence how ...

Phys.org / Genomic study reveals hidden pathways driving Minnesota's zebra mussel spread

A team of scientists at the University of Minnesota has uncovered the routes by which zebra mussels spread through Minnesota lakes, pointing to some surprising bodies of water that were the likely origins for the period of ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Preoperative radiation may improve antitumor immune response in most common form of breast cancer

Preoperative radiation improved T-cell infiltration (TCI) in patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer when administered in combination with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and chemotherapy and led ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Breast MRI may be safely omitted from diagnostic workup in certain patients with early-stage, HR-negative breast cancer

Patients with stage 1 or 2, hormone receptor (HR)-negative breast cancer had similar five-year rates of locoregional recurrence whether or not they underwent preoperative breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in addition ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Sentinel lymph node biopsy may be safely omitted in some patients with early-stage breast cancer: Phase III trial

Skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in patients with clinically node-negative, hormonal receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative early-stage breast cancer did not compromise regional control or survival after a median ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / How one Florida program reduced preterm births, and how it could serve as a model for other communities

One in 10 babies in the U.S.—nearly 374,000 infants—were born preterm in 2023, meaning before 37 weeks of pregnancy. More than 15% were very preterm, meaning they were born before 32 weeks. A full-term pregnancy lasts ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Electron-phonon interactions in crystals found to be quantized by a fundamental constant

A researcher at the Department of Physics at Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising quantum phenomenon hidden inside ordinary crystals: the strength of interactions between electrons and lattice vibrations—known as ...

Dec 9, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / 'Monster Stars' from the cosmic dawn: Astronomers find first direct evidence

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang.

Dec 9, 2025 in Astronomy & Space