Rapidly dividing cancer cells can develop DNA mutations that produce abnormal proteins called antigens, which are unique to each patient's cancer. Scientists are now testing personalized cancer vaccines that target these ...
One in three individuals with major depressive disorder does not get relief from standard daily antidepressant medications. The up-and-coming psychedelic therapeutics like psilocybin or LSD do show promise of quick relief, ...
A combination cancer therapy that relies on the reactivation of a tumor suppressor protein to kill leukemic and other blood cancer cells has shown promise in a small pilot trial.
Psychedelics are a class of compounds that alter people's perceptions, mood and mental processes. Recent clinical studies suggest that some of these compounds, such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin, could ...
New research in The Journal of Immunology uncovers how high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) and type 1 diabetes (T1D) may protect against certain cancers like melanoma, breast and colon cancer. T1D has been associated with a ...
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It's a question that surgeons often face: How much surrounding healthy tissue should they take out when removing a patient's cancer to be sure it is fully eliminated? Removing more can sacrifice nearby nerves, blood vessels, ...
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Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and the University of Washington (UW) have discovered that patients with lupus have unusual mutations that may turn their bodies into battlegrounds.
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Scientists at UC San Francisco have engineered CAR-T cells that stay dormant until they reach the brain, where they switch on and destroy tumor cells. In mice, these CAR-T cells were able to clear diffuse midline glioma (DMG), ...
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A large-scale international study offers new insights for understanding Alzheimer's disease and developing future treatments. The University of Exeter–led PROTECT study was part of the research, led by Vrije Universiteit ...
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In 2025, a team of scientists revealed some unexpected findings about how the inherited DNA repeat associated with Huntington's disease causes the illness—by slowly expanding throughout a person's life, then becoming toxic ...
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