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Treating advanced breast cancer with three drugs instead of one could boost the effectiveness of treatment and stop tumours developing resistance, a new study reports.

Researchers have successfully used human stem cells to restore heart function in monkeys with heart failure. The findings suggest that the technique will be effective in patients with heart failure, the leading cause of death in the world.

Lifelong cytomegalovirus infection may be beneficial, boosting the immune system in old age, when we need it most, according to a recent study.

Two research reports have looked at the use of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the Netherlands, among humans and animals. To allow antibiotics to continue to be used in the future, we must keep working on tackling antibiotic resistance.

Emerging CAR-T immunotherapies leverage modified versions of patient’s T-cells to target and kill cancer cells. In a new study researchers report that similarly modified natural killer cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells also displayed heightened activity against a mouse model of ovarian cancer.

New research provides insights into an underlying mechanism that could explain why new cancer therapies to help treat metastatic melanoma do not always work on patients, paving the way for predicting which patients will benefit from certain drugs.

Intestinal infection from parasites has been recognized as a global health problem that can be particularly harmful to children under 5 years of age, with a greater prevalence of infection in developing countries. New research is showing that some bioactives, including oregano oil, may offer help.

A small-molecule drug is the first to preserve hearing in a mouse model of an inherited form of progressive human deafness. The study sheds light on the molecular mechanism that underlies a form of deafness (DFNA27), and suggests a new treatment strategy.

Scientists have directly visualized in real-time structural changes in the surface protein of the influenza virus that may help the virus to fuse with and enter target cells before hijacking their functions. The discovery shows the flu virus to be more dynamic than previously thought and may help efforts to develop more effective vaccines and better understand other viruses such as Ebola, HIV, and SARS.

An artificial intelligence radar system is being developed to detect changes in blood glucose concentration