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Medical Xpress / Looking back to protect the future: New insights into influenza immunity

A new study from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity shows that seasonal influenza vaccination does more than protect against viruses circulating that year; it can also prime the immune system to respond ...

21 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Global study finds combined pollution and inequality can accelerate brain aging

An international study published across 34 countries shows that the biological age of the brain can be accelerated or delayed by environmental risk (air pollution, public housing conditions) and protective factors (socioeconomic ...

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Easter eggs can be dyed and still eaten. Just follow these tips to make sure it's safe

Easter is around the corner, and it's time to start thinking about how to decorate your eggs.

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Could one protein play both sides? How Stard7 shifts colon cancer in different models

Alain Chariot's team has just published a study in EMBO Molecular Medicine shedding light on the unexpected role of the Stard7 protein in the development of intestinal cancers. Long regarded as a simple lipid transporter, ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Small molecule drug candidate offers hope for rare kidney stone disease with no current treatment

Scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have shown that an orally administered small molecule, N-propargylglycine (N-PPG), can completely prevent the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones, protect against ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Biomarker test may improve risk assessment for HPV-related throat cancer

Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James) are advancing the understanding of a promising blood test that could ...

Apr 2, 2026
Tech Xplore / Microsoft to invest $10 bn for Japan AI data centers

Microsoft said Friday it will invest $10 billion in Japan over the next four years to build artificial intelligence data centers and related infrastructure.

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Using augmented reality to motivate prosthesis training

Artificial limbs look and function more like real limbs than ever before—but that's only helpful if they are used as intended. One of the main reasons amputees give for not using their body-powered prosthesis is a lack of ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Reprogramming 'gatekeeper' immune cell may boost cancer immunotherapy

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer—and how restoring their energy production can ...

23 hours ago
Phys.org / Map shows scale of ecosystem disturbance across Australia

University of Queensland researchers are urging governments to use newly created national data to protect the country's last remaining ecosystems free of human pressures. The two new datasets map the extent of ecosystem disturbance ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Earth from space: Eyes on our moon

In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the moon, Earth's only natural satellite. The Sentinel-2 mission acquired this lunar image by rolling one ...

5 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Pediatric ICU study finds communication time doubles when families initiate access to interpreters

Language barriers may be particularly harmful in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where families encounter challenging, often life-changing medical decisions. In many hospitals, a member of the health care team, ...

16 hours ago