A new KIR-CAR approach is trying to bring the engineered-cell revolution to solid tumours — but for now it looks more like a translational promise than a proven treatment In recent years, CAR-based cell therapies have helped reshape treatment for som...
Read moreA long-term study is revealing how some blood cancers evolve — and why certain diseases come back more aggressive One of the hardest questions in blood-cancer care has also been one of the most frightening for patients: why do some diseases seem quie...
Read moreKRAS G12D, once treated as an untouchable target, is finally starting to give way in lung cancer — but the breakthrough is still in progress Few stories in modern oncology have been shaped as much by frustration and persistence as the story of KRAS....
Read moreCannabis legalization may drive innovation, but commercialization does not always work in public health’s favour Cannabis legalization is often presented as a binary choice: either it represents a rational alternative to prohibition, or it opens the...
Read moreExercise and ibuprofen are emerging as hypotheses for easing cancer-related ‘brain fog’ — but the evidence provided does not confirm the claim Among the less visible — and often more frustrating — effects of cancer and its treatment is what clinician...
Read moreAntibiotic resistance genes may appear in newborns very early — and birth, antibiotics, and feeding seem to shape what that first microbial burden looks like Antimicrobial resistance is usually discussed as a problem of hospitals, overused antibiotic...
Read moreHIV treatment may improve some signs of biological aging — but claims of becoming ‘nearly four years younger’ still need caution For decades, the biggest success in HIV care was turning a potentially fatal infection into a chronic, treatable conditio...
Read moreMath and statistics are becoming a core language of neuroscience — but elegant models still have to answer to the brain’s messy biology For a long time, thinking about the brain was almost the same thing as thinking about anatomy: neurons, synapses,...
Read moreA new mouse model may help explain why chronic muscle inflammation resists standard drugs — but the evidence provided does not yet confirm that mechanism Chronic muscle inflammation sits in a particularly frustrating corner of medicine. It is biologi...
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