1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (678+ words) Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, remains the second most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide and has become a central figure in the escalating global antimicrobial resistance crisis....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (431+ words) Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, has long been regarded as a precisely local cancer treatment: a photosensitizing drug is delivered to a tumor, light of a specific wavelength activates it, and the resulting reactive oxygen species destroy the illuminated cells....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (55+ words) Immune checkpoint inhibitors have rewritten the outlook for some patients with gastrointestinal cancers, turning once uniformly fatal diagnoses into manageable chronic conditions for a fortunate minority. Yet for every dramatic response there are many more patients whose tumours barely flinch,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (75+ words) Gastric cancer continues to rank among the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and a new study published in Medical Oncology has identified a molecular culprit that may explain how tumors in the stomach not only grow aggressively but also dismantle the…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (583+ words) Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment landscape for many patients with solid tumors, delivering durable responses in diseases that once resisted nearly every therapeutic approach....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (89+ words) People with Down syndrome face a markedly elevated risk of obesity and its metabolic complications compared with the general population, yet the biological reasons behind this vulnerability have remained frustratingly opaque. Now, a team of French researchers has traced part…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (711+ words) Carbapenems are supposed to be the final line of defense, the antibiotics clinicians reach for when nearly everything else has failed against a dangerous bacterial infection....

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (644+ words) A sweeping new review published in Molecular Cancer argues that one of oncology’s most tantalizing curiosities, the abscopal effect, has been muddled by decades of loose terminology, and that only a rigorous redefinition of the phenomenon can turn it into…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (714+ words) Every night, while most of the body appears to be resting, a quiet regulatory drama unfolds inside the circulatory system. Blood pressure falls, sometimes by ten to twenty percent compared with daytime values, and this nocturnal dipping pattern has long…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (77+ words) Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, and at the center of most heart attacks and strokes lies a deceptively simple biological event: the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque. These fatty deposits build up silently inside artery walls…...