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Cancer cells get power boost by stealing mitochondria from nerves. This may help cancer cells to spread around the body, and preventing it could provide a path to treatment, researchers say.
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US to stop financial support of global vaccine alliance Gavi, health secretary says
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A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe form of type 1 diabetes. One year later, these 10 patients no longer need insulin. The other two patients need much lower doses.
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Anne Wojcicki's nonprofit wins bid for genetic testing company 23andMe
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Boom in Chinese biotech industry leaves US playing catch-up
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Second patient death after treatment with Duchenne gene therapy medicine
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Endometriosis affects nearly 10% of reproductive aged women, yet surprisingly little is known about what causes this disease or how to treat it.
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Researchers have identified missing components in a 17-gene pathway that yew trees use to make baccatin III, a critical component for synthesizing the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel. This work may enable cheaper production of this important medicine.
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Tiny human hearts grown in pig embryos for the first time. The hearts started to beat in the pig–human hybrids, which survived for 21 days.
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A major new law has just been signed in Oregon that blocks private-equity firms from controlling healthcare practices. It's the strictest ban on corporate influence in medicine in the country.
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There is an ongoing global loss of confidence in vaccines. Major study finds pervasive shift in attitudes affecting 52 of 55 countries studied, comparing perceived importance of childhood vaccines pre-COVID vs. during the pandemic.
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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
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New research from Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.
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It's been known since at least the 1960s that blood cells tend to lose Y chromosomes as men age. New research shows cancer cells can also lose the Y chromosome and it is linked to worse outcomes. Y-less cancer cells can even cause immune cells to lose their Y somehow.
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After a decade of increase, obesity and severe obesity rates in the US have trended back down. Data from more than 100 million Americans.
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An international group of gene editing leaders call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome editing
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A 3-year structured exercise program after chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, compared to health education alone.
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US physicians seeking Canadian licensure up 750% in 7 months
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About a quarter of the approximately 13,600 drug-target pairs in the current preclinical and clinical R&D pipeline are concentrated around just 38 unique biological targets.
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The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia used to carry a dismal prognosis, with 50% of patients dying in a year. New therapies have transformed it to a cancer that most people are cured of. An incredible progress story.
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RFK Jr. rolls back Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant people. Experts call unilateral decision by HHS secretary unprecedented.
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83% of radiologists missed the gorilla hidden in this scan
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