1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (520+ words) A new study is challenging one of the most common assumptions in the fast-growing field of biological aging research: that the different blood tests used to measure how fast a person is aging are, at some level, measuring the same…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (617+ words) A landmark multi-institution study has revealed that the neighborhood a patient with metastatic breast cancer lives in may be written into the biology of the tumor itself....

1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (671+ words) Pediatric radiology is, by almost any measure, deeply meaningful work. Radiologists, technologists, nurses, and child life specialists spend their careers peering inside the bodies of sick children, catching diseases early, guiding treatment decisions, and supporting families through some of the…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (625+ words) Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most formidable diagnoses in modern medicine, and a new case report is drawing attention for a strikingly inventive solution to one of its most stubborn clinical problems....

1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (431+ words) Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, has long been regarded as a precisely local cancer treatment: a photosensitizing drug is delivered to a tumor, light of a specific wavelength activates it, and the resulting reactive oxygen species destroy the illuminated cells....

2+ hour ago   (625+ words) A team of researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center has unveiled a new computational framework that captures how tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells change their functional identities across many types of cancer....

2+ hour, 1+ min ago   (81+ words) Bladder cancer remains one of the most challenging malignancies in modern urology, and a newly published comprehensive review in the Journal of Translational Medicine argues that the field is standing at the threshold of a diagnostic revolution. The review, led…...

3+ hour, 21+ min ago   (707+ words) Prostate cancer remains one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies in the world, and a new large-scale analysis from Brazil is shedding fresh light on which patients are most at risk of dying from the disease....

3+ hour, 29+ min ago   (55+ words) Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its treatment options have changed surprisingly little over the past two decades. Now, a review published in Medical Oncology argues that…...