As a pathologist, Dr. Christopher Owens has spent his career trying to improve his methods of catching precancerous colorectal polyps in patients. If he could catch cases earlier, fewer people would develop colorectal cancer, ...
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Blood-based biomarkers (BBMs) are blood tests that can detect Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain changes earlier, more cheaply and more easily than traditional methods such as Aβ-PET scans, which are expensive and have limited ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Despite advances in early-stage lung cancer treatment, a significant number of patients experience disease recurrence after surgery or initial therapy. A study has now demonstrated that a blood test (liquid biopsy) can reliably ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a machine learning tool that can detect and estimate past radiation exposure using the information in a standard complete blood count, or CBC, ...
Oct 19, 2026
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While a mutant fungus in the real world might not be making humans violent and turning them against each other as in the fictional world of "The Last of Us," it is raising alarm bells for public health.
Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, in collaboration with the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine and St. Anna Children's Cancer Research, have developed a new analytical method that reveals ...
Oct 14, 2026
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Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered how a common genetic mutation disrupts the positioning of a key protein during cell division, revealing a new mechanism behind acute myeloid leukemia and a potential ...
Oct 14, 2026
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A large global study provides new evidence supporting the use of blood biomarkers in an Alzheimer's clinical trial to screen for elevated brain amyloid levels among potential participants who are cognitively unimpaired. The ...
Oct 13, 2026
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The reported death of 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute in Shelekhov, Siberia, Russia, has raised questions about a possible exposure to pneumonic plague and prompted ...
Oct 13, 2026
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V felt tightness across his chest. His deepest breaths felt shallow. He sought help at an emergency department, where a resident physician found several worrying signs, including swelling of his hands and legs as well as ...
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