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The Potential Of PD-L2 Inhibitors For Cancer Treatment

An international team of scientists have elucidated how cancer cells that have become senescent following chemotherapy activate the PD-L2 protein to protect themselves from the immune system while recruiting immune suppressor cells.

Why Don’t Cancer Immunotherapies Work For Everyone?

A multi-institutional study co-authored by University of Texas at Arlington scientists uncovered a mechanism by which cancer cells prevent the immune system from activating and attacking the cancerous invaders.

Imperial Research Breakthrough Could Spare Brain Cancer Patients Risky Surgery

A simple blood test could help diagnose patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, sparing them from undergoing invasive, highly-risky surgery.

NHS Offers First Drug Targeting Advanced Breast Cancers Driven By BRCA Gene Mutations

Talazoparib (Talzenna) will become the NHS’s first targeted treatment for advanced breast cancers caused by mutations to BRCA genes

Researchers Achieve Fusion Energy Record 

Researchers have exceeded the current record for generating energy from a nuclear fusion reaction.

Breakthrough Research Links Deformed Proteins With Schizophrenia.

The study’s discovery of deformed proteins is consistent with a theory of schizophrenia that says the illness is related to abnormal brain development.

US Space Force's Not-So-Secret X-37B Spaceplane Roars Into Orbit

According to the Space Force, OTV-7 will carry, in addition to its secret payload, experiments for future space domain awareness technologies and determining the long-term effects of space radiation, including a NASA experiment that will expose plant seeds to hard radiation for a prolonged period of time.

2023'S Top Anti-Aging Stories

Helping humans to live longer and healthier were two things that featured in research during 2023.

Mindfulness Program Proves A Secret Weapon Against Post-traumatic Stress

The study's findings demonstrate that the CoMET program has potential as an intervention to alleviate PTSS by enhancing emotion regulation.

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Set A New Flight Distance Record On Mars

Although intended to only last 5 trips, Ingenuity just completed its 69th trip above the Martian surface.

A New Brain-Like Supercomputer Aims To Match The Scale Of The Human Brain

Because the computations performed by individual neurons and synapses are very simple compared with traditional computers, the energy consumption is orders of magnitude smaller.

Google's Gemini AI Hints At The Next Great Leap For AI Technology

Google has launched Gemini, a new artificial intelligence system that can seemingly understand and speak intelligently about almost any kind of prompt-pictures, text, speech, music, computer code, and much more.