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Medical Xpress / A key protein helps liver cancer resist heat-based treatment

A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center may help explain why certain liver tumors return quickly after thermal ablation, a widely used minimally-invasive, image-guided technique ...

Jul 10, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Father-daughter bonding may help female baboons live longer

Besides humans, very few mammals receive care from their fathers. But when species do, it may benefit their children. New research from the University of Notre Dame found that the strength of early-life father-daughter relationships ...

Jul 5, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Common autoimmune drug may help reverse immunotherapy-induced diabetes

A team of researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a potential new strategy to prevent, and even reverse, immune checkpoint inhibitor–induced type 1 diabetes, a rare but life-threatening ...

Jul 8, 2025 in Diabetes
Phys.org / Daily mismatch between temperature and humidity helps shield cloud forests from dryness

A daily mismatch between temperature and humidity, observed in certain mountain and waterside regions, helps regulate atmospheric dryness. According to a new study published in Science Advances, this protective effect may ...

Jul 8, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Beyond the alpha male: Primate studies challenge male-dominance norms

New findings by researchers at the University of Montpellier, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and the German Primate Center in Göttingen resolve why male-female power asymmetries vary across ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / New research uncovers link between cancer pathway and blood-retina barrier function

A University of Minnesota Medical School-led research team has discovered that a cancer signaling pathway has previously unrecognized roles in retina and brain blood vessels. The findings were recently published in Science ...

Jul 10, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Study links COVID-19 and bacterial infection to Alzheimer's disease

A recent review by researchers at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) shows Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) and SARS-CoV-2 infections may play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

Tech Xplore / Microsoft Outlook users experience hourslong outage impacting email access

After Outlook users ran into issues accessing their email accounts late Wednesday and into Thursday, Microsoft says that affected systems are back online.

Jul 10, 2025 in Internet
Medical Xpress / AI tool more effective for predicting risk of heart attack

Researchers from The University of Western Australia, working with medtech industry partners Artrya, have developed a new, fully automated AI algorithm that is more effective than current methods at predicting the risk of ...

Jul 10, 2025 in Cardiology
Tech Xplore / Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think

It's hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the years, heating and cooling cycles stress the materials. Small cracks develop, precipitation corrodes ...

Jul 10, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Melting ice will strengthen the monsoon in northern Australia—but cause drier conditions north of the equator

Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and south of the Equator. These drenching rains tend to arrive during each hemisphere's summer.

Jul 10, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Molecular biologists identify multifunctional virus-sensing protein

As part of a person's first line of defense against viruses and other microbes that cause illness and disease, a whole network of proteins and other molecules detect and respond to intruders, which they do in part by sensing ...

Jul 10, 2025 in Biology