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A 25-year Crohn’s disease mystery seems to have been solved using AI to analyze a plethora of genomic data
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 19, 2025 Source:A 25-year Crohn’s disease mystery finally cracked by AI Reference:Distinct colitis-associated macrophages drive NOD2-dependent bacterial sensing and gut homeostasis.
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Epigenetic Switch to Turn Memories On and Off Created in Mice.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 14, 2025 Source:Epigenetic Switch to Turn Memories On and Off Created Reference:Cell-type and locus-specific epigenetic editing of memory expression
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Clinical test may predict best rheumatoid arthritis biologic for each individual
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 22, 2025 Source:Clinical test may predict best rheumatoid arthritis biologic for each individual
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Study looks at organ-specific blood plasma proteins to track organ age and disease risks.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 9, 2024 Source:Scientists can now predict which of your organs will fail first Reference:Organ aging signatures in the plasma proteome track health and disease
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For the first time in years, researchers have identified a new susceptibility gene for breast cancer: study
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 29, 2023 Source:For the first time in years, researchers have identified a new susceptibility gene for breast cancer: study Reference:Variants in ATRIP are associated with breast cancer susceptibility in the Polish population and UK Biobank
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Epigenetic processes seem to be intimately involved in the cellular aging process. Research uncovering the mechanisms of these processes may help reverse the harm from degenerative disease among other conditions.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 10, 2023 Source:Researchers May Have Found a Way to Slow Human Aging Reference:Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian agingReprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision
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Genetic screening study offers first glimpse of how many suffer from previously unknown illness
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 26, 2023 Source:Study offers first glimpse of how many suffer from previously unknown illness
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New insights into how prostate cancer protects itself from latest therapies after researchers uncover the gene responsible for this resistance while investigating new drug that circumvents these protective mechanisms.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 28, 2022 Source:Drug triggers immune cells to attack prostate cancer Reference:Inhibiting ACK1-mediated phosphorylation of C-terminal Src kinase counteracts prostate cancer immune checkpoint blockade resistance.
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Tweaking CAR-T activity with on/off switches may reduce cytokine release syndrome.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 12, 2022 Source:Immune cells engineered to battle cancer can be turned ‘on’ or ‘off’ Reference:High-performance multiplex drug-gated CAR circuits