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Scientists have discovered a novel therapeutic approach for targeting neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer.

New research has used artificial intelligence to study an aggressive form of cancer, which could improve patient outcomes.

A new method makes it much easier to follow the progression of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. With a single drop of blood, it is possible to very accurately show whether the number of cancerous cells in the bone marrow is increasing in a patient.

An international team of researchers has uncovered how teeth sense the cold and pinpointed the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved.

A new preprint study posted to bioRxiv suggests that the existing Oxford–AstraZeneca and Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines may still provide protection, albeit at a lower level, against emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2.

A new review examining decades of evidence into propsed differences between the brains of men and women has called for research to "dump the dimorphism", suggesting that there are hardly any differences at all.

According to new research, heightened activity in the brain, caused by stressful events, is linked to the risk of developing a rare and sometimes fatal heart condition. The greater the activity in nerve cells in the amygdala region of the brain, the sooner the condition known as Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) can develop.

Researchers have shown that electrical stimulation of the brain at higher frequencies (>100Hz) induces resonating waveforms which can successfully recalibrate dysfunctional circuits causing movement symptoms in disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

A new study has drawn a direct link between gene expression and higher brain function, by mapping genetic signatures of functions across the human brain, a tool that may provide new targets for future treatments.

Octopuses are known to sleep and to change color while they do it. Now, research finds that these color changes are characteristic of two major alternating sleep states: an "active sleep" stage and a "quiet sleep" stage