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Non-invasive blood test shows 83% sensitivity in detecting colorectal cancer, offering hope for early diagnosis

The performance of a blood-based testing method that uses cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to screen for colorectal cancer.

18 Mar 2024

Unlocking quinoa's power: Beyond nutrition to drug development

Existing data on the bioactive constituents of quinoa and their health benefits.

18 Mar 2024

How is climate change influencing the spread of vector-borne diseases?

The impact of climate change, weather, and other anthropogenic factors on vector-borne illness spread globally.

18 Mar 2024

Arrayjet’s ArrayPlex platform selected by Immunome for use in its discovery of targeted cancer therapies

Immunome signs deal to use Arrayjet platform in its in-house screening operations.

From Arrayjet Ltd 18 Mar 2024

Nanoparticles turbocharge turmeric's curcumin for enhanced health benefits

Study explores nanoparticle-enhanced curcumin formulations, promising to significantly boost its health benefits including anticancer, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory effects by improving bioavailability and bioactivity.

17 Mar 2024

Scientists aim to understand why T cells do not sustain energy in tumors

T cells are often called "assassins" or "killers" because they can orchestrate and carry out missions to hunt down bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells throughout the body.

15 Mar 2024

Researchers sound a clarion call for greater investment in bereavement care

The public health toll from bereavement is well-documented in the medical literature, with bereaved persons at greater risk for many adverse outcomes, including mental health challenges, decreased quality of life, health care neglect, cancer, heart disease, suicide, and death.

15 Mar 2024

Gut bacteria-derived serotonin promotes the development of immune cells in newborns

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators discovered that unique bacteria colonize the gut shortly after birth and make the neurotransmitter serotonin to educate gut immune cells.

15 Mar 2024

CHOP study uncovers metabolic key to faster immune response

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia identified a key metabolite in cells that helps direct immune responses and explains at a single cell level why immune cells that most efficiently recognize pathogens, vaccines, or diseased cells grow and divide faster than other cells.

15 Mar 2024

BU study reveals key to combating high-risk neuroblastoma

The MYCN oncoprotein (proteins related to the growth of cancer cells) plays a key role in starting, advancing and making it difficult to treat various human cancers.

15 Mar 2024

Soft, stretchy throat patch empowers speech in people with voice disorders

People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who are recovering from laryngeal cancer surgeries, can often find it difficult or impossible to speak. That may soon change.

15 Mar 2024

Piggybacking the glucose sensor technology to build universal drug monitoring system

Rice University synthetic biologists have found a way to piggyback on the glucose monitoring technology used in automated insulin dosing systems and make it universally applicable for the monitoring and dosing of virtually any drug.

15 Mar 2024

Research provides insight into how the brain translates motivation into goal-oriented behavior

Hunger can drive a motivational state that leads an animal to a successful pursuit of a goal -; foraging for and finding food.

15 Mar 2024

Machine learning models to predict age from brain transcriptome changes

A new research paper was published on the cover of Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 16, Issue 5, entitled, "Genome-wide transcriptome profiling and development of age prediction models in the human brain."

15 Mar 2024

Machine learning classifier reduces the time to identify personalized tumor reactive T cell receptors

Making a personalized T cell therapy for cancer patients currently takes at least six months; scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the University Medical Center Mannheim have shown that the laborious first step of identifying tumor-reactive T cell receptors for patients can be replaced with a machine learning classifier that halves this time.

15 Mar 2024

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Non-invasive blood test shows 83% sensitivity in detecting colorectal cancer, offering hope for early diagnosis

Unlocking quinoa's power: Beyond nutrition to drug development

How is climate change influencing the spread of vector-borne diseases?

Arrayjet’s ArrayPlex platform selected by Immunome for use in its discovery of targeted cancer therapies

Nanoparticles turbocharge turmeric's curcumin for enhanced health benefits

Scientists aim to understand why T cells do not sustain energy in tumors

Researchers sound a clarion call for greater investment in bereavement care

Gut bacteria-derived serotonin promotes the development of immune cells in newborns

CHOP study uncovers metabolic key to faster immune response

BU study reveals key to combating high-risk neuroblastoma

Soft, stretchy throat patch empowers speech in people with voice disorders

Piggybacking the glucose sensor technology to build universal drug monitoring system

Research provides insight into how the brain translates motivation into goal-oriented behavior

Machine learning models to predict age from brain transcriptome changes

Machine learning classifier reduces the time to identify personalized tumor reactive T cell receptors

UVA research could help identify COVID-19 survivors at risk for long-haul lung problems

Non-invasive brain stimulation can change specific brain mechanism linked to human behavior

Antimicrobial resistance prevalence tied to patient age and sex

Future drug makers can develop their skills using virtual reality at new national Centre of Excellence

DNA origami vaccine DoriVac paves way for personalized cancer immunotherapy

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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