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Engineered Gel Cells Carry Artificial DNA Receptors to Detect and Treat Aflatoxin
Aflatoxin, one of the most dangerous families of foodborne toxins, may soon face an unusual opponent: living cells transformed into...
Air pollution linked to distinct changes in Alzheimer’s-vulnerable brain regions
Air Pollution May Reshape Alzheimer’s-Vulnerable Brain Regions—But the Pattern Changes With Age Common outdoor air pollutants may be associated with...
Anti-CD320 Autoantibodies Linked to CNS Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Myelopathy
A new study has identified autoantibodies targeting CD320, the cellular receptor responsible for transporting vitamin B12 into cells, in a...
Mizzou Study Finds Minor Schedule Change Dramatically Improves Night-Shift Physicians’ Health
University of Missouri researchers have found that moving the start and end of an overnight hospital shift forward by two...
Personalized neoantigen vaccine shows promise after surgery for head and neck cancer
Head and neck cancer research is entering a phase in which viral technology, tumor genomics and personalized immunology are being...
Researchers Call for Benzodiazepines in Airline Emergency Medical Kits
A seizure in the confined environment of an aircraft can transform an otherwise routine flight into a rapidly evolving medical...
Alliance Marks World Breast Cancer Research Day
On World Breast Cancer Research Day, the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is drawing attention to the clinical research...
Study Measures Time to Inpatient Care for Patients Boarding in Emergency Departments
A new study in JAMA is examining an overlooked interval in hospital care: the time between a patient’s admission to...
Implantable Device May Restore Function After Spinal Cord Injury
Researchers at Houston Methodist and the University of Cambridge have developed a flexible neural interface that could change how scientists...
Three-Decade Study Reveals New Insights Into Lyme Disease Ecology
Lyme disease risk in the United States is governed by a far more complicated ecological network than researchers once understood,...
Next-Generation Sequencing Detects Residual Disease in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
A new study published in Nature Communications is drawing attention to a sensitive molecular approach for tracking measurable residual disease...
NSF CAREER Award Funds UVA Engineering Research on Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data
Personal data are becoming the raw material of modern science. Every smartphone interaction, electronic health record, financial transaction and medical...
Targeting Purine Metabolism Emerges as a Next-Generation Cancer Treatment Strategy
Cancer cells do not merely consume more nutrients than healthy cells; they redesign the systems that process those nutrients to...
From Glass Interfaces to 3D Flow Networks: Engineering Catalysts Across Scales
Water splitting is often described as a simple recipe: apply electricity to water, and hydrogen and oxygen emerge. In practice,...
CREW Web Program Feasible for Women’s Cardiac Rehabilitation in Rural, Remote Communities
A web-based cardiac rehabilitation program designed specifically for women has shown promising results among patients living in rural and remote...
One in 20 Australian women now receive intravenous iron infusions
Australian women are turning to intravenous iron at a rate that has increased dramatically over the past decade, according to...
Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities Linked in New Study
A new cross-sectional study of traffic fatalities in the United States has identified a striking association between major music album...
Integrated data and machine learning transform lung cancer diagnosis and treatment
Lung cancer care is entering a new phase in which medical images, molecular profiles, blood tests, pathology slides, and electronic...
Long-range magnetism controls ferrimagnets’ approach to phase transitions
Kyoto, Japan — A new study has identified a rare magnetic transition in which the familiar rules of mean-field theory...
Laser Therapy Shows Promise Against Deadly Brain Tumors
A Tiny Laser Probe May Help Extend Survival for Patients With Difficult Brain Tumors For people diagnosed with glioblastoma, one...