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Scientists Turned A Probiotic Into A Tiny Chemotherapy Factory
A bacterium commonly used as a probiotic has been genetically redesigned to manufacture chemotherapy inside tumors instead of sending the drug throughout the body. In experiments involving mice with colorectal cancer, the engineered bacteria helped three of seven treated tumors completely regress, while also triggering an immune response that affected cancer beyond the original treatment…
Parkinson’s Patient’s Tremors Vanish Minutes After Non-Surgical Brain Treatment
For years, Bud Leavell watched a simple hand tremor slowly take away parts of his daily life. The Parkinson’s symptoms that once seemed manageable eventually made it difficult to complete tasks requiring precision, including one activity he loved most: repairing antique radios in his garage. Then, in a matter of minutes, everything changed. After undergoing…
New NHS Injection Cuts Cancer Treatment Time From An Hour To Minutes
A cancer treatment that can keep patients in hospital for up to an hour is being converted into an injection that takes just a few minutes to administer. The NHS is now rolling out injectable nivolumab across England, giving eligible patients a much quicker way to receive an immunotherapy treatment already used against a wide…
Man Lives 271 Days With a Pig Kidney Before Receiving a Human Organ
A 68-year-old New Hampshire man has spent months living with an organ that came from a genetically modified pig, and his case has now set a record that could change how doctors think about the kidney shortage. Tim Andrews survived 271 days without dialysis after receiving the experimental pig kidney, eventually becoming the first person…
Belgian Boy Becomes First Known Child Cured Of Aggressive Brain Tumor
When Lucas was diagnosed with one of the most aggressive forms of childhood brain cancer at just 6 years old, his parents were told what no family ever wants to hear. Doctors expected the disease to take his life, and there was no established drug treatment capable of curing it. Seven years later, Lucas’s tumor…
Scientists May Have Found A Way To Make More Kidneys Compatible With Patients
A kidney transplant can come down to a microscopic detail that patients have no control over: blood type. Now, researchers have successfully transplanted a human kidney after changing its blood-type markers, potentially opening a much larger pool of organs to people who have spent years waiting. The experimental kidney was converted from blood type A…
Scientists Asked AI To Create New Viruses. It Invented 16 That Never Existed Before
For decades, scientists have searched nature for viruses that could help tackle some of medicine’s toughest problems. This time, they tried something completely different. Instead of hunting for naturally occurring viruses, researchers asked artificial intelligence to design entirely new ones from scratch. What happened next surprised even the experts. Out of thousands of AI-generated genetic…
Scientists Discover a Cellular Switch That Stops Fat Storage and Could Change Obesity Treatment
What would it take to make a body stop building fat in the first place? Not shrink it. Not punish it off in some grim January. Stop it at the source, before a single fat cell ever exists. That is the question Sabita Chourasia carried into a lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in…
Doctors Delivered Devastating News About Their Baby. Months Later, He Achieved What Seemed Impossible
Seven days after bringing home her newborn son, Lupita Vasquez was still adjusting to life as a mother of two. Like many parents, she was soaking up every quiet moment with her baby, imagining the milestones that lay ahead. Then a phone call from her pediatrician changed everything. Jesse’s routine newborn screening had come back…
Nonverbal Boy Found His Voice After Years Of Silence
For years, Nathaniel Schumann seemed trapped behind a wall that nobody else could see. He understood far more than he could express, but without the ability to speak in full sentences, much of his world remained hidden from everyone around him. Then, at the age of eight, something remarkable happened. After joining a clinical trial…