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Advancement in cancer treatment at ASTRO 2024
Lung cancer, pediatric cancer, survivorship, and healthcare equity, highlighting the latest advancements in radiation oncology.
A new approach to overcoming skin cancer resistance
A topical treatment, like a gel or lotion, to directly target skin cancer, which could be safer than oral treatments.
Using patient organoids for customized sarcoma treatment
UCLA have created the most extensive collection of patient-derived sarcoma organoids which are miniature versions of a patient's tumor.
After-meal snack cravings? It’s the work of food-seeking neurons, not hunger
Feeding control via midbrain-subthalamic pathway.
HIV prevention medication doubles with digital health interventions
HIV prevention among young people at risk for HIV acquisition.
The keto diet helps prevent seizures; scientists are figuring out how
Keto diet alters gut microbiome, boosts seizure resistance in mice.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria offer lessons in behavior modifications
Learning from biology for strategic resistance management modification.
Anti-immigrant sentiment and immigrant mental distress
Serious psychological distress doubles for new U.S. immigrants.
Keto diet shields against seizures, scientists exploring mechanism
Pediatric epilepsy: Keto diet changes gut microbiome, imparts mouse seizure resistance.
UCLA investigates maternal diabetes’s impact on fetal development
Atlas explores fetal metabolism in mid-to-late gestation and diabetic pregnancy.
UCLA unravels aggressive growth in prostate cancers, eluding treatment
Temporal evolution reveals dual lineages in prostate cancer transformation.
UCLA researcher discovers menopause in wild chimpanzees
Menopause supported by demographics and hormonal data in wild chimpanzees.
Can cannabis medicines ease oral cancer pain?
UCLA dentistry team gets $5 million for non-addictive synthetic cannabinoid.
UCLA team discovers heart regeneration pathway in stem cells
RBFox1 regulates postnatal cardiomyocyte maturation.
Mother mice’s placental health and the gut microbiome’s role
Maternal microbiome enhances placental development in mice.
Restoring walking in paralyzed mice with regenerated neurons
Walking recovery after paralysis through neuron regeneration.
The impact of neighborhood disadvantage on food, weight, and brain
Body mass index as a mediator between disadvantaged neighborhoods and cortical microstructure.
Exploring why some brain tumors don’t react to immunotherapy
Blocking immune checkpoints changes how brain tumors grow.
Immunotherapy combo extends lives in metastatic melanoma
A new hope: Ipilimumab and Nivolumab for resistant melanoma.
Cancer immunotherapy: Personalized treatment for the future
CXCL13 could be a biomarker for immunotherapy response.