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Microplastics can alter the human gut microbiome, research shows

New research presented today at UEG Week 2025 shows that microplastics – plastic particles smaller than 5mm commonly found in the environment – can alter the human gut microbiome, with some changes resembling patterns linked to depression and colorectal cancer.

6 Oct 2025

Harnessing AI tools for better treatment of serious mental illnesses

Serious mental illnesses (SMI) take a tremendous toll on individuals, their friends and family, and society as a whole.

6 Oct 2025

New ASPIRE trial tests chemotherapy combination for advanced prostate cancer

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has launched the ASPIRE trial-a large-scale, Phase III clinical study investigating whether adding chemotherapy to current standard treatments can extend survival for men living with advanced prostate cancer.

6 Oct 2025

Advancing precision medicine to transform obesity prevention and treatment

A new report led by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center underscores the growing potential of precision medicine to transform how obesity is prevented, diagnosed and treated, while also illuminating key gaps and challenges that must be addressed.

6 Oct 2025

DKMS advances blood cancer research with groundbreaking ASAP study

The selection of patients for allo-HSCT and the best approach to bridging patients to transplantation is continuously discussed by experts.

6 Oct 2025

$3.7 million grant supports research on perimenopause and its potential impacts on mental health

For decades, women's midlife experiences have been largely overlooked by medical research. Despite previous assumptions about midlife mental health risks, relatively little research has systematically investigated the connections between hormonal fluctuations and psychological symptoms.

6 Oct 2025

Moffitt awarded $22.4 million grant to lead novel studies and clinical trials for leptomeningeal disease

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have been awarded a $22.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of War to lead groundbreaking studies and clinical trials for leptomeningeal disease, a devastating complication of breast and other cancers that spreads to the coverings of the brain and spinal cord.

6 Oct 2025

Study shows c-Kit–expressing sweet cells are central to taste bud regeneration after nerve injury

Taste is one of our most vital senses, shaping appetite, nutrition, and quality of life. Yet taste buds are fragile, relying heavily on the nerves that connect them to the brain.

6 Oct 2025

Inflammatory responses may play a role in cancer-related fatigue

New research reveals that inflammatory responses may play a role in different types of fatigue experienced by many people with cancer.

6 Oct 2025

AI-designed proteins revolutionize gene editing precision and safety

Researchers at Integra Therapeutics, in collaboration with the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) and the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), have designed and experimentally validated new synthetic proteins that can edit the human genome more efficiently than proteins provided by nature.

6 Oct 2025

New research reveals the cervix as a truly immunocompetent tissue

Cervical epithelial cells are far from passive bystanders in the body's immune system. New research shows they actually play an active and highly coordinated role in detecting and fighting infections. That's the conclusion of an international research team led by Associate Professor Cindrilla Chumduri from Aarhus University, and now published in the journal Science Advances.

6 Oct 2025

Study reveals new strategy to block TNBC metastasis and restore chromosomal stability

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive and hardest forms of breast cancer to treat, but a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine suggests a surprising way to stop it from spreading. Researchers have discovered that an enzyme called EZH2 drives TNBC cells to divide abnormally, which enables them to relocate to distant organs.

6 Oct 2025

Visceral fat activity linked to advanced endometrial cancer

High metabolic activity of visceral fat may be associated with more aggressive endometrial cancer, new research presented today at the 38th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM'25) has shown.

5 Oct 2025

Mastectomy may contribute to worse sexual health, psychosocial outcomes

While mastectomy is often a necessary and life-saving treatment option for many women with breast cancer, the surgery may contribute to worse sexual health, body image, and several other physical and emotional challenges after surgery, according to a new systematic review on the effects of mastectomy in women with breast cancer.

3 Oct 2025

Rectal bleeding increases the odds of colorectal cancer diagnosis by 8.5 times

Adults under 50 undergoing colonoscopy were found to have a dramatically higher risk of having colorectal cancer when the procedure was done for rectal bleeding.

3 Oct 2025

Depression can affect surgical outcomes and postoperative costs

Depression is known to be associated with physical health challenges, in everything from disrupting sleep to an increased cancer risk.

3 Oct 2025

Innovative topical cream relieves chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

Most patients receiving chemotherapy with taxanes or platinum salts develop pain and loss of sensitivity in their hands and feet—a severe side effect that can interfere with proper treatment.

3 Oct 2025

Newly discovered mechanism helps leukemia cells to evade the immune system

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the body's immune system.

3 Oct 2025

Experts urge vaccination during pregnancy to prevent infant whooping cough deaths

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is on the rise and incidence now exceeds pre-pandemic numbers. While in adults and older children the cough can be bothersome and last for months, pertussis in young infants can be life-threatening.

3 Oct 2025

Deadly brain cancer erodes skull bone and alters immune marrow

Scientists at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have shown for the first time that glioblastoma-the deadliest form of brain cancer-affects not just the brain but also erodes the skull, alters the makeup of skull marrow, and interferes with the body's immune response.

3 Oct 2025