One of the major challenges in glioma surgery is that tumor boundaries are often difficult to define. Diffuse gliomas can infiltrate surrounding brain tissue beyond what surgeons can see directly or what conventional imaging ...
Aug 17, 2026
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Artificial intelligence has designed viruses that can infect bacteria and reproduce—a first that shows AI is beginning to do more than analyze the genetic code of living things. It can write new versions of it, too.
Aug 16, 2026
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Nian Sun, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, has spent years perfecting a device that he believes could change the way diseases are detected.
Aug 14, 2026
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Blood biomarkers may make it possible to detect changes seen in Alzheimer's disease without advanced brain imaging or cerebrospinal fluid tests. At the same time, much of the research behind today's biomarkers has been conducted ...
Aug 13, 2026
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Researchers have developed a novel AI model that can analyze a routine whole-slide histopathology image and simultaneously predict cancer subtype, specific genetic mutations and survival outcomes across 32 different solid ...
Aug 13, 2026
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If you see a doctor regularly, chances are you have had a lipid panel ordered and your blood drawn at a lab. The results told your physician your levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, factors that play a role in diagnosing ...
Aug 12, 2026
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As cases of the potentially deadly drug-resistant fungal infection Candida auris have spread to 27 states, including Texas, which has the second-highest number, a scientist at UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center ...
Aug 12, 2026
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A cancerous tumor is not a single enemy. It is made up of many different cell populations that can behave in very different ways. Among them, even at the time of diagnosis, there may already be cells that months or years ...
Aug 12, 2026
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In Alzheimer's disease, amyloid plaques form in the brain, followed by threadlike structures made of the protein tau. Both changes have toxic effects on the brain's nerve cells years before dementia symptoms appear. Historically, ...
Aug 11, 2026
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A single blood test could in the future provide a more comprehensive picture of cancer than current methods. In a review article published in the journal Genome Medicine, researchers at Karolinska Institutet describe how ...
Aug 11, 2026
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