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Researchers Test a New Way To Find Pancreatic Cancer Before It’s Too Late

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By Ilima Loomis Verified
| SciTechDaily
A new blood test showed promise for spotting early pancreatic abnormalities that are often difficult to detect. Credit: Shutterstock An experimental blood test could help detect early pancreatic cancer and precancerous changes, guiding decisions about further testing. People at high risk of pancreatic cancer are often monitored with imaging and other tests that can be invasive, expensive, and limited in their ability to catch the disease early.
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Researchers teach AI to spot cancer risk by squeezing individual breast cells

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By Ilima Loomis Verified
| Berkeley Engineering
Researchers at UC Berkeley and City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment organization, have created a novel microfluidic platform that can assess women’s breast cancer risk at the cellular level. The first-of-its-kind platform squeezes individual breast epithelial cells, creating a taxing environment to measure how they deform, recover and behave under stress, according to a new study published today in Lancet’s eBioMedicine.
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Yong-Hui Jiang: Unlocking Genetic Mysteries to Treat Brain Disorders

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By Ilima Loomis Verified
| Yale University
As a young doctor at a pediatric hospital in Shanghai, Yong-Hui Jiang, MD, PhD, looked into the faces of parents and saw desperation. Working in a clinic for children born with Down syndrome and significant cognitive delay, Jiang could do little more than tell parents what they already knew. Family after family asked him the same questions: Why couldn’t their child speak? What had caused the cognitive delay of their child’s Down syndrome? How could they be cured?
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