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21+ hour, 23+ min ago   (678+ words) Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, remains the second most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide and has become a central figure in the escalating global antimicrobial resistance crisis....

21+ hour, 40+ min ago   (69+ words) A centuries-old plant alkaloid best known for lowering blood sugar may have another, far more ambitious role: slowing the aging of the immune system itself. In a comprehensive review published in the journal Biogerontology, researchers from the Russian Clinical Research…...

23+ hour, 6+ min ago   (72+ words) Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha, or HIF1α, has long been celebrated as the master switch that allows cells to sense and survive low-oxygen conditions, a discovery that earned the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the intestine, this transcription factor is far…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (668+ words) Influenza has long been one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries, not because the virus cannot be countered, but because it refuses to stand still. Through continual antigenic drift, the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins on the viral surface accumulate mutations that…...

23+ hour, 30+ min ago   (687+ words) A persistent, itchy lump that appears after a trip to the countryside is usually blamed on an insect bite, a boil, or a small abscess that will resolve on its own....

23+ hour, 30+ min ago   (69+ words) Small-cell lung cancer has long been one of oncology’s most punishing adversaries. It grows with astonishing speed, spreads early, and presents a treatment paradox that has frustrated clinicians for decades: at diagnosis, tumors melt away under platinum-based chemotherapy, yet relapse…...

23+ hour, 36+ min ago   (611+ words) One of the most detailed long-term portraits of children’s aerobic fitness ever assembled suggests a troubling pattern in the final years of primary school. Researchers tracking hundreds of Norwegian children from first through sixth grade found that peak oxygen uptake,…...

23+ hour, 45+ min ago   (559+ words) Tissue microarrays have quietly become one of the workhorses of modern cancer research, allowing hundreds of tissue cores from different patients to be packed onto a single microscope slide and scanned in one pass....

23+ hour, 52+ min ago   (55+ words) Gene editing has long promised a revolution in cancer medicine, yet the promise has remained stubbornly out of reach for one deceptively simple reason: getting the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into tumor cells, and only tumor cells, is extraordinarily difficult. A new…...