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Diabetes
Combining popular diabetes drugs offers complementary heart and kidney benefits, research finds
New research shows combined use of sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP1-RAs) is likely to offer additional protection against heart and kidney disease in ...
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A research team may have discovered the neurological mechanism underlying a common eating disorder
A McGill University-led research team working in collaboration with a French team (CNRS, INSERM and Sorbonne university) believes it has identified both the neurological mechanism underlying anorexia nervosa as well as a ...
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Medical research news
Small molecules induce trained immunity, opening a new approach to fighting disease
Vaccines provide a front-line defense against dangerous viruses, training adaptive immune cells to identify and fight specific pathogens.
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Researchers find a common immune system mechanism between pregnancy and cancer
To understand why some cancers successfully circumvent the immune system to grow unchecked, researchers turned to pregnancy.
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Erasing 'bad memories' to improve long term Parkinson's disease treatment
Common treatments for Parkinson's disease can address short-term symptoms, but can also cause extensive problems for patients in the long run. Namely, treatments can cause dyskinesia, a form of uncontrollable movements and ...
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New research supports 'social good' as a cognitive approach to dealing with highly stressful events
Some people, especially those in public service, perform admirable feats: Think of health-care workers fighting to keep patients alive or first responders arriving at the scene of a car crash. But the emotional weight can ...
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Gut microbe could hold key to help people benefit from healthy foods
In an analysis of more than 50,000 individuals from around the world, carriers of gut Blastocystis, a single-celled organism that has been labeled either a parasite or harmless organism but is commonly found in the digestive ...
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Brain-imaging study reveals curiosity as it emerges
You look up into the clear blue sky and see something you can't quite identify. Is it a balloon? A plane? A UFO? You're curious, right? A research team based at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute has for the first time witnessed ...
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Novel liquid biopsy methodology enables monitoring of disease evolution in patients with metastatic prostate cancer
Published today in Cancer Cell, results of a study directed by Joaquin Mateo, Head of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology's (VHIO) Prostate Cancer Translational Research Group, show that DNA/RNA material contained in ...
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Team discovers potential drug target for the lethal wasting disease known as cancer cachexia
Cancer is insidious. Throughout tumor progression, the disease hijacks otherwise healthy biological processes—like the body's immune response—to grow and spread. When tumors elevate levels of an immune system molecule ...
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Highly accurate AI model can estimate lung function just by using chest X-rays
If there is one medical exam that everyone in the world has taken, it's a chest X-ray. Clinicians can use radiographs to tell if someone has tuberculosis, lung cancer, or other diseases, but they can't use them to tell if ...
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Diagnosing different forms of dementia now possible using AI, study finds
Ten million new cases of dementia are diagnosed each year but the presence of different dementia forms and overlapping symptoms can complicate diagnosis and delivery of effective treatments. Now researchers from Boston University ...
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World's first CAR-T cell therapy for a child with lupus
In June 2023, Uresa A. (who was 15 years old at the time) received CAR-T cells at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. The treatment was the last resort to slow down systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which is a serious autoimmune ...
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Blood test measuring protein levels could provide snapshot of overall health
Circulating protein levels may serve as a biomarker for cardiorespiratory fitness, an important but previously hard-to-measure component of overall health, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.
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Active plant substance found to reduce pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension is a very serious disease that leads to heart failure and death in many patients. Searching for new treatment options, a team headed by Professor Daniela Wenzel and Dr. Alexander Seidinger from the ...
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Promising new target discovered in pancreatic cancer could boost chemotherapy and reduce spread
A molecule called nidogen-2 may be a key driver of pancreatic cancer progression and metastasis, offering a promising new treatment approach for this aggressive cancer, according to a Garvan Institute study.
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Long COVID uncharacteristic immune cell activity and SARS-CoV-2 RNA found in the gut two years after infection
A large team of medical researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and CellSight Technologies has found that some patients who develop long COVID show signs of uncharacteristic immune cell activity in many ...
Bio-based tool quickly detects concerning coronavirus variants
Cornell researchers have developed a bioelectric device that can detect and classify new variants of coronavirus, and potentially other viruses, such as measles and influenza, to identify those that are most harmful.
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Combining genomics and metabolism identifies long-sought mitochondrial choline transporter
A multidisciplinary research team has developed a discovery platform to probe the function of genes involved in metabolism—the sum of all life-sustaining chemical reactions.
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Researchers reveal a master controller of development and aging
University of Queensland researchers have unlocked crucial molecular secrets of aging in cells, potentially paving the way to improve quality of life as people age.
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