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How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer

CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how this revolutionary treatment works, which cancers it...

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What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why It's So Common Health

What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why It's So Common

Fatty liver disease — now officially called MASLD — affects nearly 40% of the global population, yet most people don't know they have it. Here's how i...

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What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision Health

What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults worldwide. Here is how high blood sugar silently destroys the eye's light...

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What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health Science

What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health

The exposome captures every environmental exposure a person encounters from conception to death — and scientists now believe it explains far more abou...

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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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