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AI-Powered Method Provides Safe, Effective, and Painless Alternative for Breast Imaging

Scienmag

Scanning involves the patient lying prone on a cushioned table with a recessed area containing warm water and the sensor array, where one breast at a time is immersed. In practical terms, the PACT system is designed with patient comfort at the forefront.

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Births of eight healthy children show promise of mitochondrial replacement therapy

STAT News

  On Wednesday, the team in England that has been performing the technique reported that eight healthy babies have been born so far, highlighting that the approach reduced the risk of children inheriting disease-causing mutations in the pieces of DNA contained in our mitochondria.

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St. Jude Algorithm Harnesses Water Dynamics to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Scienmag

By quantitatively assessing the likelihood that specific water molecules remain present at binding sites under native conditions, ColdBrew provides medicinal chemists with actionable insights. One of the remarkable achievements of this project is the creation of a comprehensive, publicly accessible database containing ColdBrew predictions.

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Evaluating the Risk of NAION in Patients Using Semaglutide Medications

The Pharma Data

The alert follows a detailed safety review and recommendation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) , which concluded that non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) —a rare but serious eye condition resulting in permanent vision loss—should now be officially recognized as a very rare side effect of semaglutide therapy.

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Grand Rounds April 25, 2025: Automated Response Technology Integrated into EMR and Physician-Patient Communication (Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The emotional timbre of messages from patients plays a role, as well; in an analysis of EHR inbasket messages, the research team found messages from patients that contained expletives, vitriol and personal attacks.

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TCF3 Drives Bladder Cancer via TMBIM6-Ca2+ Ferroptosis

Scienmag

The study demonstrates that upregulation of TCF3 in bladder cancer cells leads to enhanced expression of TMBIM6 (Transmembrane Bax Inhibitor Motif-containing 6), a critical modulator of intracellular calcium flux and apoptotic resistance.

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Innovative Gene Therapy Delivery Device Enables Hospitals to Produce Personalized Nanomedicines On-Demand

Scienmag

In a groundbreaking advance poised to disrupt the landscape of precision medicine, a European research collaboration has developed an innovative gene therapy delivery system that empowers hospital pharmacies to manufacture personalized nanomedicines on demand. Ethical and economic considerations also emerge as critical discourse points.