Cart is empty The number of specialized immune cells available for fighting skin cancer doubled when a new treatment blocked their escape from melanoma tumors, experiments in mice and human cells show.
Study finds common artificial sweetener linked to higher rates of heart attack and stroke
New Cleveland Clinic research showed that erythritol, a popular artificial sweetener, is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Findings were published today in Nature Medicine.
For-profit hospices deliver lower quality care than nonprofit hospices, finds study
Patients receiving care from for-profit hospices have substantially worse care experiences than patients who receive care from not-for-profit hospices, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Benefit of baricitinib for treatment of patients with moderately to severely active SLE is unclear
The work of a clinician-scientist often feels like two steps forward, one step back. Just ask Professor Eric Morand, Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University.
How the brain creates your taste in art
It has been said that there is no accounting for taste. But what if taste can actually be accounted for, and what if the things doing the accounting are the neural networks inside your brain?
Scientists reveal how different cancer cells ‘team up’ to help incurable childhood brain tumor spread
Scientists have shed light on how different types of cancer cells in an aggressive childhood brain cancer interact and work together to spread.
Commonly used self-test for age-related macular degeneration found to be inaccurate
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one the most prevalent eye diseases. In the late stage of the disease, newly formed vessels in the retina alter its structure, which leads to blurry and distorted vision. This condition is called wet AMD and if left untreated, it can lead to severe and irreversible vision loss. Among the elderly, wet AMD is a leading cause of vision loss.
New link between fatal muscle wasting disease gene and cancer discovered
Mutations of the gene encoding dystrophins have long been known to cause the debilitating muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which affects one in every 5,000 children born, mostly boys. People with the condition will usually only live into their 20s or 30s.
How highly mobile populations can skew local COVID-19 wastewater trends
If you thought the waters of data-driven research couldn’t get any murkier, you haven’t met the team of scientists studying our sewage.
Reproductive factors in women contribute to risk of cardiovascular disease
An earlier first birth, a higher number of live births, and starting periods at a younger age are all linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular problems in women, according to new research.