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Cancer Research
By treating the human body as an information system, scientists are using AI to simulate cells, visualize hidden biology, and detect disease at its earliest — and most preventable — stages.
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MIT Sloan’s Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer outline their tried-and-tested solution for stubborn workflow blockages.
By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges.
For a substantial part of human history, people thought smoking tobacco was perfectly healthy. Native American tribes, who introduced the tobacco plant to Europeans and — by extension, the rest […]
Some go gently into the night. Others die less prettily in freak accidents or deadly invasions, or after a showy display.
“Having more stem cell activity is good for regeneration, but too much of a good thing over time can have less favorable consequences.”
There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
Cancers can’t develop without genetic mutations — or can they?
A study of spinal development took a strange turn and made a surprise discovery.
Vaccines targeting some of our deadliest cancers are showing promise in early trials.
They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
The evidence that pollution causes cancer is weak. Lifestyle factors, like smoking, obesity, and alcohol, matter far more.
The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.
It could prevent sun damage and help chemical burns heal faster.
A new study provides the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal.
Cancer cells hoard iron in unusually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.
It could lead to earlier diagnoses, better treatment, and fewer deaths from pancreatic cancer, which kills 88% of patients within five years.
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
"The only options left were experimental approaches in clinical trials."
Cancer likes glucose. So take it away.
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer.
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
"Rational vaccinology" could lead to effective cancer vaccines.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Tumor cells traverse many different types of fluids as they travel through the body.
Running to catch the bus might help you live longer.