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Risk factors for shunt conversion and brain bleeding after ventriculosubgaleal shunts
Infants who develop progressive brain ventricle enlargement after bleeding into the brain around the time of birth often face a…
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Glutamine pathway helps dormant prostate cancer cells survive and recur
A quiet biochemical switch may explain why prostate cancer can return years after treatment appears to have succeeded. New research…
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Later Morning Swim Training Improves Sleep, Recovery and Performance in Swimmers
Pushing a morning swim practice from 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning gives elite adolescent swimmers a full extra hour…
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Rhine floodplains trap microplastics during major flood event
In the summer of 2021, catastrophic rainfall over western Germany pushed the Rhine to heights not seen in generations, submerging…
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Schrödinger births new immunology and inflammation biotech, Tectora Therapeutics
Schrödinger announced the launch of new immune disease-focused Tectora Therapeutics, which comes online with a $55 million series A financing…
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Mutant TP53 traps FOXP3, disrupting PD-L1 control and fueling immune evasion in lung cancer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma, yet they fail in nearly half of the patients who…
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Meprin β enzyme selectively blocked by its own synthetic propeptide
Meprin β is specifically inhibited by its cognate synthetic propeptide In a development that could reshape how scientists approach diseases…
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Deep learning framework predicts vaccine immunogenicity through personalized reverse vaccinology
Personalized cancer vaccines promise to teach a patient’s immune system to attack their tumor and nothing else, but the field…
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Tracking non-tuberculous mycobacteria in Ukrainian patients from 2022 to 2024
Scientists working under wartime conditions have produced the first systematic genomic map of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in Ukraine, revealing a…
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Mixed food additives linked to higher hypertension and heart disease risk
One of the largest investigations into the health effects of food additives ever conducted suggests that the real risk may…