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Why Do Only Certain Brain Tumors Respond to Immunotherapy?

A new study has shown why tumors that have spread to the brain respond to immunotherapy while cancers that originate in the brain, like glioblastoma, do not.
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Statins May Lower Cancer Risk for Ulcerative Colitis Patients

Cholesterol-lowering statins might protect patients with ulcerative colitis from developing and dying from colorectal cancer. Statin treatment was also associated with a lower risk of death regardless of cause in patients with ulcerative colitis.
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Better Cybersecurity With New Material

A new technology, that encrypts data using the crystal-like material perovskite, could pave the way for a new type of quantum communication.
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Health Burden of Air Pollution Differs Across Racial Groups

Health benefits that have resulted from reductions in fine particulate air pollution aren’t distributed equally among populations. Racial and ethnic minorities still experience disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease-related deaths.
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Immune Cells Shown To Generate Their Own Guidance System

Immune cells generate their own guidance system to navigate complex environments, reveals a new study that challenges earlier notions about how immune cells move.
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First Emission Estimates Made for Danish Fertilizer-Related N2O

Researchers have measured nitrous oxide emissions across Denmark to identify the impact of crop rotations.
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What Initiates Chemical Intolerance?

In a newly released survey of thousands of U.S. adults, respondents most frequently cited exposures to biological sources, such as mold and algae “blooms,” and/or fossil fuels, their combustion products and synthetic chemical derivatives.
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Journey Through the Genetic Evolution of Stone Age Europe

The genetic analysis of 46 ancient specimens from Stone Age Europe further enhance our understanding of population dynamics during this time. While some groups clearly intermingled, others appear to have been isolated from one another.
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Brain Tumor Gene Therapy Shows Early Promise in First-in-Human Trial

Combination drug and immunotherapy treatment can extend survival in patients with gliomas, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer, suggests a new Phase 1, first-in-human trial.
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Alzheimer’s Blood Biomarker Shows High Potential in Predicting Disease

Neuroscience researchers published a review article that confirms the usefulness of neurofilament light (NfL) blood levels to predict the likelihood and rate of progression of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease
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