Scientists have created miniature brains from stem cells that developed functional neural networks. Despite being a million times smaller than
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New drug target for glioblastoma
A new international study co-led by Cleveland Clinic has identified a new drug target for treating glioblastoma. This target is
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More than just jaundice: Mouse study shows bilirubin may protect the brain: Researchers have found bilirubin plays a unique role in protecting the brain
In studies in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have found that bilirubin, a bile pigment most commonly known
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New ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test improves breast cancer diagnostics: Test could help avoid unnecessary surgeries; enable physicians to continuously monitor cancer
A new type of blood test for breast cancer could help avoid thousands of unnecessary surgeries and otherwise precisely monitor
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Lymph nodes can predict survival in patients with esophageal cancer
Optimal methods for predicting treatment efficacy in patients with esophageal cancer are seriously lacking. But now, researchers from Japan have
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Natural antioxidant helps improve immune-based therapies by modulating T-cells
Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D. and Xue-Zhong Yu, M.D., National Institutes of Health-funded researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC),
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Cancer cell’s ‘self eating’ tactic may be its weakness
Cancer cells use a bizarre strategy to reproduce in a tumor’s low-energy environment; they mutilate their own mitochondria! Researchers at
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Immunity: Redundancies in T cells
Oncologists have had great success with cancer immunotherapy in recent years, especially with the approach known as immune checkpoint inhibition,
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How electrical stimulation reorganizes the brain: Approach could inform efforts to improve brain stimulation treatments for depression, other psychiatric disorders
Recordings of neural activity during therapeutic stimulation can be used to predict subsequent changes in brain connectivity, according to a
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Scientists identify a novel strategy to fight viral infections and cancer in animal model
A potential therapeutic strategy to treat viral infection and boost immunity against cancer is reported in the May 30 online
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