Blood tests—simple, noninvasive and economically feasible—promise to become the next major milestone in cancer diagnosis. However, most of these tests, dubbed liquid biopsies, are currently not reliable enough for widespread ...
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Blood tests—simple, noninvasive and economically feasible—promise to become the next major milestone in cancer diagnosis. However, most of these tests, dubbed liquid biopsies, are currently not reliable enough for widespread ...
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Desperate times call for desperate measures, says an ancient proverb, but whoever coined it surely could not have imagined that it would hold so true on such small scales. About half a century ago, scientists found that when ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Even during such routine tasks as a daily stroll, our brain sometimes needs to shift gears, switching from navigating the city to jumping out of the way of a bike or to crossing the street to greet a friend. These switches ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Of all the fungi that live in the human body, the most infamous is probably the yeast Candida. This distant cousin of baker's yeast is notorious for causing various types of thrush that can be a major nuisance, but it can ...
Jul 13, 2022
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Ketamine, a well-known anesthetic used in smaller doses as a party drug, was hailed as a "new hope for depression" in a Time magazine cover story in 2017. Two years later, the arrival of the first ketamine-based antidepressant—the ...
May 31, 2022
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Supporting actors sometimes steal the show. In a new study published today in Cell, researchers headed by Prof. Ido Amit at the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown that supporting cells called fibroblasts, long viewed ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Genetic mutations linked to a disease often spell bad news. Mutations in over 25 genes, for example, are associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and they all increase the risk of developing this incurable disorder. ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Immunotherapies for cancer rely on recruiting the patient's immune system, but they still fall far short of tapping into the entire arsenal of the body's natural defenses. In fact, most such therapies draw on one type of ...
Mar 23, 2022
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December 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of the first vaccine shots against SARS-CoV-2 administered outside of clinical trials. "When the vaccines were introduced, it was a game changer for our research efforts as well," ...
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