As femtosecond lasers find new medical uses, Lithuanian manufacturer bets on scale to meet demand
A recent study, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, found femtosecond laser imaging assesses lung tumor margins six…
UCLA researcher wins the 2026 Albany Prize for revolutionary cancer therapy discoveries
Dr. Dennis Slamon, a pioneering oncologist and researcher at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been…
Simple urine test can accurately diagnose and track bladder cancer
A simple urine test devised by researchers at Stanford Medicine and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System…
MIT biologists discover cellular pathway that triggers colon cancer spread
Most colon cancer deaths are caused by the spread of tumor cells beyond the colon, usually to the…
New Cancer Vaccine Boosts Oxygen to Help Fight Off Tumors
When it comes to priorities in life, oxygen tops the list. Humans can go weeks without food and…
Inhibitory neurons act as a brake on brain tumor growth
Brain tumors do not grow in isolation. They develop within the highly active environment of the brain, where…
Probiotics for mental health? A new review finds promising signals and major gaps
Researchers map the probiotic strains and gut-brain pathways being investigated across anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, revealing…
Study shows how cancer can act as a systemic disease
In their quest to understand how cancers take root, grow and spread, scientists have for the past half-century…
Targeting cyclin-dependent kinases offers new pathways for cancer therapy
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Germany. In the search for new therapeutic approaches that…
Thinning cancer cells’ sugar coating could expose tumors to immune attack
Like spies evading detection through being masters of disguise, many cancer cells are adorned with a copious coat…
Engineered probiotic bacteria boost immune attack against pancreatic cancer
Cancer immunotherapies have transformed treatment for many cancers, but pancreatic cancer remains especially difficult to treat. One major…
Missing ancestry data in single-cell atlases threatens fair medicine
The single-cell “atlases” that are increasingly used to map the human body and as training data for artificial…