Finding a Food Pathogen Doesn’t Always Mean You’ll Fall Ill When a food test comes back positive for a pathogen, it sounds alarmingly straightforward. A harmful bacterium has been found. Therefore the food is dangerous. Therefore illness is likely. T...
Continue readingProtein Shape Could Become the Next Frontier in Alzheimer’s Biomarkers In Alzheimer’s research, the search for better biomarkers is really a search for time. Time to identify disease earlier. Time to distinguish meaningful brain change from normal ag...
Continue readingLiquid Biopsy Is Getting Closer to Diagnosing Disease from a Tiny Blood Sample Few ideas in modern medicine sound as immediately attractive as this one: detecting disease from a tiny amount of blood. No invasive biopsy. No need to remove a piece of t...
Continue readingHepatoblastoma Is Still One of Childhood Cancer’s Biggest Biological Mysteries When a cancer appears in very early childhood, one question hangs over everything else: how did it begin? In hepatoblastoma, the most common liver tumour in children, that...
Continue readingA New Genetic Risk Score for Diabetes and Obesity Sounds Powerful — but the Evidence Here Falls Short Precision medicine has made one idea especially appealing: if disease risk is partly written into our biology, then perhaps we should be able to rea...
Continue readingMore Radiotherapy in Liver Cancer May Improve Control Without a Clear Rise in Severe Toxicity In liver cancer care, every treatment decision is a balancing act. Doctors are not only trying to control a tumour. They are often working around an organ t...
Continue readingEngineered Bacteria Could Become the Next Drug Delivery Tool in Bowel Cancer At first glance, it sounds like the sort of idea that belongs more in speculative fiction than in a medical journal: use bacteria to treat cancer. And yet that is exactly wh...
Continue readingPregnancy Changes the Brain — and the Science Is Finally Catching Up For decades, the idea of “baby brain” has hovered somewhere between stereotype and stand-up material. Forgetfulness, emotional swings, feeling not quite yourself — all of it was oft...
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