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Alex Muller
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Cell Therapy Takes Aim At Deadly Brain Tumours In Two Clinical Trials
The deadliest form of brain cancer, it rapidly spreads through the brain with limited treatment options. Rounds of chemotherapy temporarily kept the aggressive tumors at...
AI Now Surpasses Humans In Almost All Performance Benchmarks
Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence has released the seventh annual issue of its comprehensive AI Index report, written by an interdisciplinary team of...
Cell Therapies Now Beat Back Once Untreatable Blood Cancers. Scientists Are Making Them Even Deadlier.
Dubbed “Living drugs,” CAR T cells are bioengineered from a patient’s own immune cells to make them better able to hunt and destroy cancer. Once...
Your Brain Breaks Its Own DNA To Form Memories That Can Last A Lifetime
A new study in mice suggests that breaking and repairing DNA in neurons paves the way for long-lasting memories. We form memories when electrical signals...
Elon Musk Doubles Down On Mars Dreams And Details What’s Next For SpaceX’s Starship
Elon Musk has long been open about his dreams of using SpaceX to spread humanity’s presence further into the solar system. Following the successful launch...
Exploding Stars Are Rare-But If One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life On Earth
The Fusion process will keep the sun shining steadily for about 5 billion more years, but when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, their deaths can...
A Universal Vaccine Against Any Viral Variant? A New Study Suggest It’s Possible
A Universal Vaccine Against Any Viral Variant? A New Study Suggest It’s Possible An alternative strategy is to break the cycle with a universal vaccine...
AI Links Gut Microbiome to Alzheimer’s
Summary: Researchers are pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to explore how the gut microbiome influences Alzheimer’s disease. Their latest study employs AI to analyze...
Alzheimer’s risk associated with stressful life events during childhood and midlife, study finds
Alzheimer’s disease, a major cause of dementia, currently affects approximately 50 million people worldwide, a number expected to triple by 2050. A recent study published...
NIH researchers develop AI tool with potential to more precisely match cancer drugs to patients
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that uses data from individual cells...