Despite the development of numerous cancer treatment technologies, the common goal of current cancer therapies is to eliminate cancer cells. This approach, however, faces fundamental limitations, including cancer cells developing ...
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Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that UC San Francisco researchers suspect may be causing respiratory and other illnesses.
Dec 18, 2024
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Microbes living in our guts help us digest food by reshaping the bile acids that our livers produce for breaking down fats. It turns out that two of these microbially-modified bile acids may affect our risk—in opposite ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Among the most widely used tools today to measure the deterioration of the organism over time are the so-called "epigenetic clocks." Epigenetics refers to the chemical modifications that accumulate in the DNA of cells throughout ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Before 2024 ends, Congress will decide whether to keep or change rules about telehealth, or let them expire. And even though the decision will focus on Medicare's payment for virtual patient care, it will likely impact telehealth ...
Nov 7, 2024
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Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and releasing a DNA-damaging toxin. The study, published in Nature, sheds light on a new approach to potentially ...
Nov 6, 2024
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A technological breakthrough by medical researchers at Tel Aviv University enabled the discovery of a cancer mechanism that prevents the immune system from attacking tumors. The researchers were surprised to find that reversing ...
Oct 30, 2024
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Since the 1950s, a chemotherapy drug known as 5-fluorouracil has been used to treat many types of cancer, including blood cancers and cancers of the digestive tract.
Oct 7, 2024
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The genetic confirmation of a suspected diagnosis of hereditary colorectal cancer is of great importance for the medical care of affected families. However, many of the variants identified in the known genes cannot yet be ...
Oct 1, 2024
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A team of epidemiologists at the First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, in China, has shown experimental evidence of an inverse relationship between incidences of Alzheimer's disease and colorectal cancer.
