31+ min ago   (707+ words) Detecting dangerous bacteria in a patient’s sample can take hours or even days, and the fastest molecular tests demand expensive laboratory infrastructure and highly trained staff....

31+ min ago   (55+ words) Immune checkpoint inhibitors have rewritten the outlook for some patients with gastrointestinal cancers, turning once uniformly fatal diagnoses into manageable chronic conditions for a fortunate minority. Yet for every dramatic response there are many more patients whose tumours barely flinch,…...

40+ min ago   (75+ words) Gastric cancer continues to rank among the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and a new study published in Medical Oncology has identified a molecular culprit that may explain how tumors in the stomach not only grow aggressively but also dismantle the…...

5+ hour, 31+ min ago   (1683+ words) By JO MACFARLANE, HEALTH REPORTER For people with Parkinson’s disease and their families, there is rarely much good news. The neurological condition slowly robs sufferers of their ability to move freely and live independently, causing worsening tremors and muscle stiffness…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago   (583+ words) Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment landscape for many patients with solid tumors, delivering durable responses in diseases that once resisted nearly every therapeutic approach....

2+ hour, 59+ min ago   (92+ words) This June, ten of the life sciences industry’s most respected board members came to New York for Accenture’s second annual Life Sciences Board Forum for something this industr... Ten life sciences board directors on AI's three hardest questions: developing the…...

3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (69+ words) The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has long been prized by microbiologists for its remarkable versatility: it survives refrigeration, persists on stainless steel surfaces in food-processing plants, and invades host cells with a precision that few bacteria can match. A new…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago   (89+ words) People with Down syndrome face a markedly elevated risk of obesity and its metabolic complications compared with the general population, yet the biological reasons behind this vulnerability have remained frustratingly opaque. Now, a team of French researchers has traced part…...

4+ hour, 49+ min ago   (711+ words) Carbapenems are supposed to be the final line of defense, the antibiotics clinicians reach for when nearly everything else has failed against a dangerous bacterial infection....

5+ hour, 35+ min ago   (644+ words) A sweeping new review published in Molecular Cancer argues that one of oncology’s most tantalizing curiosities, the abscopal effect, has been muddled by decades of loose terminology, and that only a rigorous redefinition of the phenomenon can turn it into…...