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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 90% of patients within five years of diagnosis. Here is why this disease is so uniquely difficult to detect, fight,...

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How Remote Robotic Surgery Works and Why It Matters Health

How Remote Robotic Surgery Works and Why It Matters

Telesurgery lets a surgeon operate on a patient thousands of kilometres away using robotic arms, fibre-optic links, and haptic feedback. Here is how t...

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How Telesurgery Works: Operating From Miles Away Health

How Telesurgery Works: Operating From Miles Away

Telesurgery lets surgeons operate on patients thousands of miles away using robotic arms and fiber-optic connections. Here's the science and technolog...

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Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Yet Science

Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Yet

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at a distance of 8.5 billion light-years — the most distant "jellyfish galaxy...

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Zorevunersen Reduces Seizures in Dravet Syndrome by 91% Health

Zorevunersen Reduces Seizures in Dravet Syndrome by 91%

The experimental drug zorevunersen has reduced seizure frequency by up to 91% in children with Dravet syndrome. The results of a clinical trial publis...

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Scientists Find Malaria's Fatal Weakness in ARK1 Protein Health

Scientists Find Malaria's Fatal Weakness in ARK1 Protein

An international research team has identified ARK1, a protein kinase essential for malaria parasite replication, as a promising drug target — offering...

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AI Therapy Chatbots Fail Ethics Standards, Study Finds Technology

AI Therapy Chatbots Fail Ethics Standards, Study Finds

A Brown University study found that popular AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics — even when explicitly prompted to act as trained...

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Hidden DNA Enzymes Reveal a Mini-Metabolism in Cells Science

Hidden DNA Enzymes Reveal a Mini-Metabolism in Cells

A landmark study published in Nature Communications has discovered more than 200 metabolic enzymes sitting directly on human DNA, revealing a hidden '...

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How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Test Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Test

Liquid biopsies scan a simple blood draw for tiny fragments of tumor DNA, offering a less invasive way to detect, monitor, and guide treatment of canc...

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How Alzheimer's Disease Develops in the Brain Health

How Alzheimer's Disease Develops in the Brain

Alzheimer's disease begins silently decades before any symptoms appear. Here is what actually happens inside the brain — from rogue proteins to dying...

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What Is a Liquid Biopsy and How Does It Detect Cancer? Health

What Is a Liquid Biopsy and How Does It Detect Cancer?

A liquid biopsy is a simple blood test that hunts for fragments of cancer DNA circulating in your bloodstream — no surgery, no tissue sample. Here's t...

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How Malaria Parasites Work—and Why They're Hard to Kill Health

How Malaria Parasites Work—and Why They're Hard to Kill

Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, yet the parasite behind it remains one of the most elusive targets in medicine. Here's how P...

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