Resistance to HER2-targeted therapies can be a problem when treating patients with HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer. Therefore, the identification of new therapies for this patient group is important. Researchers at the ...
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Cherenkov imaging is a valuable cancer treatment tool that can help doctors track and monitor radiation doses received by tissues during cancer therapy in real time. This imaging technique works by detecting Cherenkov radiation, ...
Mar 13, 2023
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The enzyme TBK1 is an important component of the innate immune system that plays a critical role in the defense against viruses. Upon mutation-induced loss of TBK1 function, patients show an increased susceptibility to viral ...
Mar 10, 2023
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Cholesterol tremendously increases the toxicity of a peptide implicated in Alzheimer's progression, according to research by scientists in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in Texas A&M's College of Agriculture ...
Mar 1, 2023
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A team of medical scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics has found structural differences in white matter in the human brain that can be linked to genetic variants that may be responsible for some behavioral ...
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60% to 80% of dementia cases, according to the Alzheimer's Association. While current research suggests alcohol use disorder is a risk factor in Alzheimer's ...
Feb 17, 2023
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The human immune system is arguably the most complex system in the human body. But scientists have made a lot of progress in understanding how it functions.
Feb 9, 2023
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Anyone who has ever had a night of poor sleep or no sleep at all knows how much the lack of sleep can affect concentration the next day. Researchers at the Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Women's sexuality is vastly understudied in science and is still considered a "taboo" subject. Often, the experiences of men have been taken as the norm in scientific research, yet there are important differences in the sexuality ...
Feb 2, 2023
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The UK National Health Service is being brought to its knees by a perfect storm of difficulties: poor flow through hospitals resulting in crowded emergency departments and long ambulance waits, and increases in respiratory ...
Jan 11, 2023
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