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Medical Xpress / Engineered bacteria deliver cancer drug directly inside tumors in mice

Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer globally; however, current treatments are limited by disease complexity. A study published in the open-access journal in PLOS Biology by Tianyu Jiang at Shandong University, ...

15 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Heart disease risk tied to certain molecules made by gut microbes

In a study involving data from thousands of people, the risk of a new coronary heart disease diagnosis was statistically associated with bloodstream levels of nine specific molecules that are produced by gut microbes. Danxia ...

15 hours ago
Phys.org / Endangered smalltooth sawfish make a comeback in a historical Florida nursery

During the winters of 2024 and 2025, widespread "spinning fish" events swept through the Florida Keys, impacting more than 80 marine fish species and likely killing hundreds of endangered large juvenile and adult smalltooth ...

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Thoughts don't kill people, but study suggests options for keeping guns from doing so

Millions of Americans have thought about shooting someone, a new University of Michigan study finds. And if they didn't already own a firearm, some of them have thought about getting one to make their thoughts a reality. ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Decline in Japanese chum salmon linked to climate change

Today, most of the salmon consumed in Japan is imported from countries like Chile and Norway, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. But just two decades ago, Japanese chum salmon made up a much ...

10 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Osteoporosis drugs may cut dementia risk by 16%, study of 120,000 finds

A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has found that nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates (NBPs), a medication widely used in the ...

10 hours ago
Phys.org / How Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream' might look in 300 years' time

If your great-grandparents ever saw "The Scream," they probably experienced a slightly different painting than the one we see today. Edvard Munch used materials that make his paintings vulnerable to the ravages of time. A ...

9 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Top AI coding tools make mistakes one in four times, study shows

New research from the University of Waterloo shows that artificial intelligence (AI) still struggles with some basic software development tasks, raising questions about how reliably AI systems can assist developers. As Large ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Computational bio tool automates and standardizes genome sequencing analysis

In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models, or cultured cells. To fully realize the potential to study biology at this unprecedented scale, researchers must be ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Warmer, wetter cyclone weather made Peru's dengue outbreak 10 times larger, study finds

Diseases historically absent from the United States have been showing up in Florida, Texas, California and other U.S. states in recent years. To understand why, look to Peru. That's where researchers from Stanford and other ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, researchers find

When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the brain's balance between ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / GLP-1 drugs and pregnancy: Who may face higher preterm birth risk

Weight loss drugs have been linked to an increased risk of premature births among women who took them inadvertently just before or during early pregnancy to treat pre-existing diabetes. However, a large study of over 750,000 ...

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