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3 days ago

Uncovering a Genetic Driver of Rare Early-Onset Dementia - News Center

A new genetic risk factor for early-onset frontotemporal dementia has been identified, significantly increasing the odds of developing the disease.
Medicine
fromNews Center
3 days ago

Uncovering a Genetic Driver of Rare Early-Onset Dementia - News Center

A new genetic risk factor for early-onset frontotemporal dementia has been identified, significantly increasing the odds of developing the disease.
#alzheimers-disease
fromNature
1 month ago
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Blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer's symptoms will start

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fromSocial Media Explorer
1 day ago

The Silent Two-Decade Build-Up of Alzheimer's - Social Media Explorer

Changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer's can begin years before symptoms appear, yet assessments often occur only after noticeable cognitive decline.
Medicine
fromInsideHook
4 weeks ago

Could This Type of Cell Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease?

Tanycytes in the hypothalamus show degradation in Alzheimer's patients, suggesting these cells may play a crucial role in tau protein removal and disease development.
fromNature
1 month ago
Medicine

Blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer's symptoms will start

from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

5 Biotechs That Big Pharma Could Snap Up as Oncology M&A Heats Up

Incyte tops this list due to its rare combination of commercial scale, cash generation, and pipeline depth. The company posted FY2025 revenue of $5.14 billion, up 21.2% YoY, anchored by Jakafi generating $828.2 million in Q4 2025 alone (+7% YoY) and Opzelura delivering $207.3 million (+28% YoY). With $3.58 billion in cash and 14 pivotal clinical trials underway, Incyte offers an acquirer immediate revenue, margin expansion potential, and a deep oncology pipeline spanning KRASG12D, CDK2 inhibition, and mutCALR.
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#genomics
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5 days ago
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The 1000 Chinese Pangenome empowers medical and population genetics - Nature

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6 days ago
Data science

Mantis Biotech is making 'digital twins' of humans to help solve medicine's data availability problem | TechCrunch

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5 days ago
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The 1000 Chinese Pangenome empowers medical and population genetics - Nature

Data science
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6 days ago

Mantis Biotech is making 'digital twins' of humans to help solve medicine's data availability problem | TechCrunch

Large language models can enhance genomics and clinical practices, but struggle with rare diseases due to data scarcity.
Health
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 day ago

A metabolism researcher shared 2 simple things he does to reduce his cancer risk

NAD is crucial for energy transformation and DNA repair, and lifestyle choices significantly impact its levels and disease risk.
#ai-in-healthcare
fromFast Company
3 days ago
Medicine

The AI drug revolution is real but the hype around it isn't

AI may revolutionize drug discovery, but it cannot simplify the complexities of human biology or guarantee successful treatments.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
Medicine

AI use in breast cancer screening cuts rate of later diagnosis by 12%, study finds

AI-supported mammography reduced subsequent-year breast cancer diagnoses by 12%, increased screening-stage detection to 81%, and reduced aggressive subtype cancers by 27%.
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fromFast Company
3 days ago

The AI drug revolution is real but the hype around it isn't

AI may revolutionize drug discovery, but it cannot simplify the complexities of human biology or guarantee successful treatments.
fromNature
1 week ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction is ultimately unsustainable for mice, and potentially other mammals, too. The clones looked normal and lived as long as normal mice. But large mutations - including the loss of an entire chromosome - accumulated in the cloned lineage at an unusually high rate.
OMG science
Cancer
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Stop ignoring subtle signs of cancer. A doctor explains when to get medical help.

Early cancer symptoms are often subtle and easily missed, including unexplained fatigue, persistent pain, and digestive changes; persistent symptoms lasting over a week warrant medical evaluation.
Healthcare
fromHarvard Business Review
3 weeks ago

Healthcare Uses Specialized Language. It Needs Specialized AI, Too.

Healthcare professionals across specialties use inconsistent terminology and communication styles, creating significant translation barriers that impede care coordination and data interoperability.
#multivitamins
Alternative medicine
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 weeks ago

Taking a multivitamin could slow some signs of aging, new study suggests

A two-year multivitamin-multimineral study found modest slowing of biological aging markers by 1.5 to two months per year, though effects varied across different epigenetic clocks measured.
Health
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Taking multivitamin daily could help to slow biological ageing, study suggests

Daily multivitamin use for two years slightly slows biological aging markers, though clinical health significance remains unclear.
London startup
fromBusiness Matters
3 weeks ago

BIOCAPTIVA raises 1.58m to transform liquid biopsy sample preparation

BIOCAPTIVA secured £1.58 million funding to commercialize msX technology, which simplifies blood sample preparation for cancer diagnostics by using magnetic bead extraction to isolate cell-free DNA directly from whole blood.
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

From cancer to Alzheimer's: could a renewed focus on energy transform biomedicine?

Energy flow, governed by universal physics principles, provides a more fundamental understanding of biological processes and disease than molecular mechanisms alone.
Health
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers - Nature

Diabetes affects 537 million adults globally with type 2 diabetes comprising 90% of cases, driven by lifestyle factors and characterized by insulin resistance or deficiency leading to long-term organ damage.
Cancer
fromHarvard Gazette
3 weeks ago

Unlocking hidden pocket on a billiondollar drug target - Harvard Gazette

Researchers discovered a hidden binding pocket on cereblon protein that enables more selective and safer cancer drug design through targeted protein degradation.
Health
fromInsideHook
3 weeks ago

Medical Experts Recommend a Genetic Test for Heart Disease Risk

The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology now recommend genetic testing for lipoprotein(a) to identify heart disease risk factors unaffected by diet and lifestyle changes.
Medicine
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

New early-warning alerts have doctors thinking it may be possible to repair a damaged kidney

Drug-induced acute kidney injury is common in hospitalized patients but often goes unrecognized because it causes no symptoms and damage occurs before creatinine levels rise enough to alert clinicians.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

A Genetic Map Redrawing the Borders of Mental Illness

Five broad genetic families underlie 14 psychiatric disorders, suggesting diagnostic categories reflect shared biological landscapes rather than distinct diseases.
Cancer
fromNature
1 month ago

Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work?

Multi-cancer early detection blood tests show promise but lack regulatory approval and rigorous trial evidence, with initial results indicating limited effectiveness in improving cancer outcomes.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Mysterious brain cells clear proteins that contribute to Alzheimer's disease

Tanycytes, specialized brain cells, transport toxic tau proteins from cerebrospinal fluid into the bloodstream, but malfunction in Alzheimer's disease, causing tau accumulation in the brain.
Cancer
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

'Game-changing' urine tests could detect breast cancer, endometriosis and PCOS

Home-based urine tests are being developed to detect breast cancer, endometriosis, and PCOS with high accuracy, potentially reducing diagnostic waiting times.
Cancer
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

Researchers engineered Clostridium sporogenes bacteria to consume tumor cells from inside, offering a potential alternative to traditional cancer treatments.
Public health
fromScary Mommy
1 month ago

When To Get Cancer Screenings & Whether At-Home Tests Are Legit

Regular, guideline-based cancer screenings enable early detection and improved outcomes amid rising cancer incidence and widespread at-home test misinformation.
Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Researchers praise stunning' results of new prostate cancer treatment

VIR-5500, a new immunotherapy drug, shrinks tumors in advanced prostate cancer patients with minimal side effects in early trials.
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

Tracking mysteries of loss of Y chromosome, cancer - Harvard Gazette

The Y chromosome primarily carries genes that provide instructions for male sex differentiation and fertility. But it also carries some known to suppress tumor growth - a protective ability that is lost if those genes are damaged or destroyed.
Health
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

Martschenko's argument is largely that genetic research and data have almost always been used thus far as a justification to further entrench extant social inequalities. But we know the solutions to many of the injustices in our world-trying to lift people out of poverty, for example-and we certainly don't need more genetic research to implement them. Trejo's point is largely that more information is generally better than less.
Science
#ai-drug-discovery
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
2 months ago

NVIDIA Just Made a Bigger Push Into AI Drug Discovery

Nvidia's stock has traded sideways for six months despite strong AI demand and strategic deals that may enable an eventual breakout.
#alzheimers
OMG science
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Why did that cancer cell become drug-resistant? - Harvard Gazette

TimeVault records and stores cellular gene-expression history inside living cells, enabling retrieval of past gene-activity information to study differentiation, stress responses, adaptation, and drug resistance.
Medicine
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

A living drug manages to eliminate tumors in mice with pancreatic, ovarian and kidney cancer

An ultrasensitive CAR-T cell therapy successfully eliminated solid tumors in laboratory mice by targeting the CD70 protein at previously undetectable levels.
#genetic-screening
fromNature
2 months ago
Public health

Nationwide genetic screening proves effective at catching disease risk early

fromNature
2 months ago
Public health

Nationwide genetic screening proves effective at catching disease risk early

#microbiome-testing
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

A brain-based AI test could point to the best antidepressant for you - Silicon Canals

Before treatment began, participants underwent neuroimaging. Instead of relying on a single modality, the researchers fused structural connectivity (how regions are physically wired) with functional connectivity (how regions co-activate at rest). The goal was not to throw every possible feature at a black box, but to learn a constrained pattern-what the authors call structure-function "covariation"-that carries the most predictive signal for outcome. In other words, the model tries to find the smallest set of connections that meaningfully forecasts symptom change.
Mental health
fromNature
2 months ago

This AI has chemical expertise - and helps synthesize 35 new drugs and materials

Now, researchers have created an artificial-intelligence system that vastly simplifies and accelerates the process of chemical synthesis. The system, which is called MOSAIC and is described in a study published in Nature on 19 January, recommended conditions that researchers were able to use to generate 35 compounds with the potential to become products like pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals or cosmetics without needing to do any further trawling or tweaking.
Artificial intelligence
Cancer
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Douglas Hanahan, biologist: We don't necessarily need a cure, what we really need is cancer without disease'

Cancer cells acquire hallmarks: uncontrolled proliferation, evasion of growth barriers, resistance to programmed death, and relative immortality, driving tumor diversity and treatment variability.
Science
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

'Remarkable' new cat cancer genome could benefit humans

Cats and humans develop similar cancers due to shared tumor-causing genetic mutations, suggesting cats could improve cancer research and treatments for both species.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Trial launched to 'help spot health risks early'

Public health consultant Dr Ross Keat said supporting people earlier to make small preventative changes would make "a big difference later on". Some 3,500 people in the north of the island within that age bracket are eligible for the checks. The checks will be carried out by two pre-existing nurses that support GP staff and would not replace GP appointments, Keat explained, adding that the cost would be minimal and absorbed by Ramsey Group Practice.
Public health
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Global Study Identifies Genetic Links to Depression

Genetic analyses have identified hundreds of variants linked to depression and revealed existing non-psychiatric drugs as potential treatment candidates.
Medicine
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The very long road from a cancer cure' in mice to one in humans

Promising mouse cancer cures often fail to become safe, effective human drugs; premature media claims can create false patient expectations and hinder responsible research progress.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Multi-cancer blood test missed key goal in NHS trial

Galleri blood test failed to meet the primary endpoint in an NHS trial, though stage-four cancer diagnoses fell by about one-fifth.
Public health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

A Medical Treatment to Lower Your Alzheimer's Disease Risk

Vaccination against several infections reduces long-term dementia risk; vaccine hesitancy may therefore increase dementia rates.
Public health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The early dementia sign that appears 10 years before diagnosis that most people explain away - Silicon Canals

Declining financial management often precedes memory symptoms and can appear up to a decade before a dementia diagnosis.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Alzheimer's blood tests may predict when a person will develop symptoms

But questions remain about the accuracy and uncertainty of these tests, and experts caution that the assays aren't ready for prime time. While the results here are encouraging, they are not yet at the level of having significant clinical benefit for individual patients, says Corey Bolton, a clinical neuropsychologist and an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was not involved in the new study.
Medicine
#pancreatic-cancer
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

How long you live may depend much more on your genes than scientists thought

Heritability of human lifespan roughly doubles to about 50% when extrinsic mortality is removed, showing a stronger genetic influence on intrinsic aging.
Medicine
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Using saliva to detect disease holds promise, but it's not perfected yet

Saliva-based tests can detect infections and genetic risks, enable earlier preventive diagnoses, but widespread use is limited by cost, insurance coverage, and FDA approval gaps.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Neurologists reveal the everyday habit that doubles your dementia risk - Silicon Canals

A groundbreaking study found that adults who sit for 10 or more hours daily face a significantly higher risk of dementia compared to those who sit less. The research, which tracked over 50,000 adults using wearable devices, revealed that the risk increases dramatically after crossing that 10-hour threshold.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Simple blood test can predict which breast cancer treatment will work best, study finds

A blood test measuring circulating tumour DNA predicts breast cancer treatment response before or within four weeks, enabling alternative therapies and avoiding ineffective drugs.
Science
fromNews Center
2 months ago

New Underlying Mechanisms May Support Proper Transcriptional Regulation and Improve Targeted Therapies - News Center

BET proteins, particularly BRD4, regulate transcription initiation and elongation independently of bromodomains, with implications for targeted therapeutic development.
Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Longevity Medicine Is Being Oversold

Modern longevity medicine is booming due to social-media-driven marketing despite limited placebo-controlled evidence and risks of patient harm.
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Author Correction: The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer

In Extended Data Fig. 8 of this article, a micrograph shown in the left column (panel AZD) was inadvertently duplicated during figure preparation. The intended image was meant to show phospho-ERK (P-ERK) levels in a MAP2K1-mutant patient-derived xenograft (PDX) exposed to the MEK inhibitor AZD6244 (AZD). However, this image was accidentally overlaid with a micrograph from Extended Data Fig. 10 (left column, panel PAN), which displays P-ERK levels in an EGFR-mutant PDX exposed to panitumumab (PAN).
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Daily briefing: Cancer cells stay hidden using stolen mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire immune-cell mitochondria that activate a mitochondrial pathway enabling immune evasion and lymph-node invasion.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire mitochondria from immune cells to weaken those immune cells and activate type I interferon signaling that promotes lymph-node invasion.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

A 'time capsule for cells' stores the secret experiences of their past

Engineered TimeVaults capture and store cellular mRNA to continuously record past transcriptional activity, enabling retrospective study of cellular history and responses.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Lung cancer hijacks the brain to trick the immune system

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. But a new study suggests that, in certain organs, tumors actively communicate with the brain to trick it into protecting them. Scientists have long known that nerves grow into some tumors and that tumors containing lots of nerves usually lead to a worse prognosis.
Science
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

A vaccine to prevent colon cancer shows promising results

Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez has spent more than 10 years pursuing a goal that seemed very distant, but which he now sees as a little closer: to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer. The physician and researcher is leading a study that presented the first promising results of a colon cancer vaccine in a small group of patients suffering from a rare disease that makes them 17 times more likely to develop colon cancer than the general population.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

A $700 blood test promises to detect 50 different kinds of cancer. The results come with major caveats.

Access to advanced blood-based cancer screening and proactive biological testing remains costly, creating a health-access gap despite direct-to-consumer telehealth offerings.
fromNature
2 months ago

Why cancer can come back years later - and how to stop it

When Lisa Dutton was declared free of breast cancer in 2017, she took a moment to celebrate with family and friends, even though she knew her cancer journey might not be over. As many as one-third of people whose breast tumours are cleared see the disease come back, sometimes decades later. Many other cancers are known to recur in the years following an initial treatment, some at much higher rates.
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Medicine
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

An Alzheimer's breakthrough 10 years in the making - Harvard Gazette

Lithium is a natural brain element whose depletion contributes to Alzheimer's and lithium orotate prevented and reversed Alzheimer's pathology and memory loss in mice.
Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Gut check: are at-home microbiome tests a way to hack your health' or simply a waste? | Antiviral

At-home gut microbiome tests can detect microbial markers but often lack consistent interpretation, limiting usefulness for most people unless clinically ordered and properly interpreted.
Medicine
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Europe Oncology Genomics Tracker Captures Oncologist Perspectives Across Major European Markets - Data Report by DeciBio Consulting LLC - Silicon Canals

Genomic testing adoption for solid tumor oncology is growing across EU-5 with varied country-specific drivers and infrastructure tracked via a survey of 100+ oncologists.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Alzheimer's therapies should target a particular gene, researchers say

New therapies for Alzheimer's disease should target a particular gene linked to the condition, according to researchers who said most cases would never arise if its harmful effects were neutralised. The call to action follows the arrival of the first wave of drugs that aim to treat Alzheimer's patients by removing toxic proteins from the brain. While the drugs slow the disease down, the benefits are minor,
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Medicine
fromWIRED
1 month ago

AI Digital Twins Are Helping People Manage Diabetes and Obesity

An app predicts individualized blood sugar responses, provides AI-driven daily recommendations and coaching, and supported a user in weight loss and improved biometrics.
Medicine
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

New AI tool predicts brain age, dementia risk, cancer survival - Harvard Gazette

BrainIAC, a brain imaging adaptive core, accurately extracts multiple disease risk signals from routine brain MRIs using self-supervised learning and limited training data.
Medicine
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

Why Early Diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma Can Save Lives

Early diagnosis of multiple myeloma significantly improves treatment outcomes and prevents irreversible organ damage, increasing survival and quality of life.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Menopause linked to Alzheimer's-like brain changes

Menopause is linked to loss of grey matter in memory- and emotion-related brain regions, resembling changes seen in Alzheimer's disease.
Medicine
fromNews Center
2 months ago

Non-invasive Approach Predicts Chemotherapy Response in Glioblastoma - News Center

A new non-invasive method may better identify glioblastoma patients responding to chemotherapy, enabling timelier treatment decisions.
Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless

People who carry single-gene mutations for disorders like thalassemia can experience real health effects, including lethargy and fainting, despite being labeled asymptomatic.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

'Weight-loss jab helped me find my cancer'

The cancer was fastacting, and if I'd left it even six months, the outcome could have been much worse,
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