It is plain to see that the world moves pretty fast—but the human brain moves even faster to see. A
Read more
Home »
Two-in-one drug combining Herceptin with chemotherapy keeps women’s breast cancers at bay
Guiding chemotherapy to a tumour by attaching it to the antibody-based target drug Herceptin (trastuzumab) is effective at treating women
Read more
Functional hair follicles grown from stem cells
Scientists from Sanford Burnham Prebys have created natural-looking hair that grows through the skin using human induced pluripotent stem cells
Read more
One simple change cut unnecessary imaging for cancer patients in half
Simply introducing a default physician order—a “nudge”—into electronic health records (EHRs) cut the use of unnecessary daily imaging in half
Read more
Age itself appears to increase the spread of Alzheimer’s-associated tau in the brain
A study by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds evidence that spread through the brain of the Alzheimer’s-disease-associated protein
Read more
Making sense of mammography guidelines
Experts agree that detecting breast cancer early offers a better outlook, but when to start screenings and how often to
Read more
Nuclear medicine PSMA-targeted study offers new options for cancer theranostics worldwide
Research presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) describes a new
Read more
Stem cells and more: How dentists of the future may fix your teeth
The next time you lose a tooth, could your dentist just grow you a new one? Not yet, but research
Read more
Babies can learn link between language and ethnicity, study suggests
Eleven-month-old infants can learn to associate the language they hear with ethnicity, recent research from the University of British Columbia
Read more
Interim scan during prostate cancer therapy helps guide treatment
New prostate cancer research shows that adding an interim scan during therapy can help guide a patient’s treatment. Prostate-specific membrane
Read more