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Bringing Depression Treatment to Texas With Lessons Learned in India

A technique pioneered to increase access to treatment for depression in the villages of India is now helping church groups, ...
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New Screening Approach Expands Search for Compounds That Destroy Disease-Causing Proteins

Harvard Medical School investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new laboratory method for ...
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3D Map of Cell Signaling Sites Could Help Improve Cancer Treatment

A Harvard Medical School team has now built an AI-enabled tool called KinoPlex that maps the three-dimensional structures and ...
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Pilots, Flight Attendants Have Greater Risk of Radiation-Related Cancer Death Than Other Professions

Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportion of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found. The results ...
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New AI Tool Predicts Risk of More Than 300 Diseases With Existing Patient Data

Researchers have developed the first known machine-learning-powered tool that can predict patient risk of hundreds of diseases based solely on patient health records and genetic profiles. The model ...
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2025 Warren Alpert Prize Honors Scientists Whose Discoveries Culminated in Novel HIV Treatment

First-in-class medication halts HIV replication by disrupting a critical piece of the viral machinery — the capsid protein shell that protects the vial genome. Twice-a-year injection removes ...