Working to stop the spread of Breast Cancer
Michigan State researchers are revealing the molecular workings of how a certain form of metastatic Breast Cancer spreads to other parts of the body. In doing so, they're creating new opportunities to spot and contain what is called triple negative Breast Cancer. ARTICLE
Healthy Habits May Improve Longevity and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
A study recently published in the British Medical Journal found that people ages 65 and older who had a healthy lifestyle lived longer—3.1 years longer for women, 5.7 years longer for men—than their peers who didn’t have the same healthy lifestyle. They also spent more of their remaining years without Alzheimer’s disease. ARTICLE
Magnets made by soil bacteria offer hope for breast and prostate cancer
Scientists are developing magnetically guided microscopic projectiles that can be injected into patients’ blood to attack breast, prostate and other tumours. The project – led by researchers at Sheffield University – builds on progress in two key medical fields. The first involves viruses that specifically attack tumours. The second focuses on soil bacteria that manufacture magnets which they use to align themselves in the Earth’s magnetic field. ARTICLE
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New Blood Biomarker for Predicting Dementia Before Symptoms Develop
Measuring blood levels of P-tau181 may allow doctors to diagnose Alzheimer’s before the onset of symptoms. Elevated levels of P-tau181 in the blood were associated with greater amyloid-beta accumulation in the brain and outperformed two other biomarkers in predicting signs of amyloid-beta in brain scans. ARTICLE
