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New insights into the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s using mouse model and lab-grown organoids.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 28, 2026 Source:Crohn’s breakthrough? Your gut may never forget inflammation, Israeli scientists find
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Newer understanding of new blood vessel growth after heart attack may lead to treatments to promote better bypass circulation.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 24, 2026 Source:Your Heart Can Actually Build Its Own Bypass After a Heart Attack Reference:Tracing the origins of de novo coronary collateral formation in cardiac repair
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Genetic/molecular mechanism discovered to explain why heart muscle does not develop cancer or at least rarely does so.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 29, 2026 Source:Why Does the Heart Rarely Develop Cancer?
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Researchers are working on blood tests that may provide early detection of potential Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 22, 2026 Source:Blood Tests Could Reveal Alzheimer’s Risk Years Before Symptoms Appear Reference:Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 and longitudinal trajectories of Aβ, tau, and cognition in cognitively unimpaired older adults
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Scientists finally crack mystery of rare COVID adenovirus vaccine blood clots
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 15, 2026 Source:Scientists finally crack mystery of rare COVID vaccine blood clots Reference:Adenoviral Inciting Antigen and Somatic Hypermutation in VITT
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A new mouse model approach to treating osteoarthritis by encouraging cartilage regeneration.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 17, 2026 Source:A hopeful future for Arthritis Treatment
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Scientists Develop IV Therapy That Repairs the Brain After Stroke
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 3, 2026 Source:Scientists Develop IV Therapy That Repairs the Brain After Stroke Reference:Toward development of a dynamic supramolecular peptide therapy for acute ischemic stroke
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New agent blocks the degradation pathway in cartilage and restores cartilage in mice and in vitro human cartilage. If it is shown to work in humans, it will have great potential to mitigate osteoarthritic age-related changes.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 13, 2026 Source:Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis Reference:Inhibition of 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase promotes cartilage regeneration