Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which infect the digestive system. Credit: Ronald Taylor, Tom Kirn, Louisa Howard/Wikipedia Angola’s cholera outbreak has now claimed 329 lives, the World…
Category: Health & Medicine
What makes the human brain unique? We compared it with monkeys and apes to find out
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different…
The Colorado psychedelic mushroom experiment has arrived
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under…
Researchers identify mutations that can lead to resistance to some chemotherapies
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Investigators at Mass General Brigham have uncovered how resistance to chemotherapies may occur in some cancers. Researchers focused on a pathway that harnesses reactive oxygen species…
Study suggests exercise could reduce breast cancer recurrence
Credit: Klaus Nielsen from Pexels Exercise could potentially reduce the recurrence rate of breast cancer, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found. ECU Ph.D. student Mr. Francesco Bettariga…
Oral contraceptives and smoking shown to impact steroid hormone levels in healthy adults
Steroid hormones and donors clustered by group and sex. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu6094 Steroid hormone levels in healthy adults are influenced by oral contraceptives and smoking, as well…
Q&A with professor of pharmacology
This schematic summarizes the screen that the authors used to find drugs that could potentiate CD8+ T-cells to kill tumor cells and the ensuing testing those drugs underwent. Briefly, breast…
Digital PCR identifies leukemia patients who can stop drug treatment
Sample inclusion and performed real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) and digital PCR (dPCR) runs. Credit: The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2024.11.003 Researchers have found that the clinical application of…
Gene editing with adeno-associated virus vector offers hope for hereditary deafness
Credit: JCI Insight (2025). DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.185193 An R75W mutation in the gap junction β2 (GJB2) gene causes severe fragmentation of gap junction plaques, connecting adjacent cells and leading to syndromic…
A protective immune system cell disappears from a key form of fat, but only in those who are obese
Loss of Srebf2 alters VAT Treg subset composition. Credit: Science Immunology (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adl4909 The mammalian immune system is an evolutionary wonder. It’s capable of recognizing and destroying cancer cells,…
