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Paralysis Treatment Heals Lab-Grown Human Spinal Cord Organoids
Using lab-grown human spinal cord organoids — miniature organs derived from stem cells — Northwestern scientists have modeled different types of spinal cord injuries and tested a promising new regenerative therapy.
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Combination Treatment May Slow Disease Progression in Advanced Sarcoma
An oral combination treatment may prevent disease progression in patients with advanced leiomyosarcoma, one of the most common subtypes of soft tissue sarcoma, according to a recent study published in The Lancet Oncology.
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AI Model May Improve RNA Sequencing Research
Scientists in the laboratory of Rendong Yang, PhD, have developed a new large language model that can interpret transcriptomic data in cancer cell lines more accurately than conventional approaches, as detailed in a recent study published in Nature Communications.
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Study Finds Widespread Screening for Rare Cholesterol Disorder Not Cost-Effective
Screening all young people for a genetic form of dangerously high cholesterol could prevent heart attacks and strokes later in life, but would not be cost-effective under the current healthcare system, according to a new modelling study published in JAMA.
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New Computational Biology Track Added to PhD Graduate Program
A new PhD track is being added to the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences (DGP) for the 2026 application cycle, to enhance student learning and build community around computational biology and bioinformatics at Feinberg.
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Cells’ Systems Cooperate to Form ‘Scaffolding’ During Egg Development
A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on one of the most intricate construction projects in biology: how cells build and coordinate the internal scaffolding needed to create a healthy egg, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Cell Biology.
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New York Times
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Are Garlic Supplements Good for Your Heart?
Studying dietary supplements can be challenging because their composition varies across products. It’s also tricky to tease out whether the supplement was responsible for a participant’s improved health, or if it was another factor like their diet, lifestyle or genetics, said Dr. Linda Van Horn, a professor emeritus of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School…
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New York Times
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A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?
Dr. John Erik Pandolfino, a specialist in gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, created an A.I. solution he calls GERDBot. It triages patients, steering those who don’t really need to see him to other providers. The goal is to expedite care for those with more worrisome symptoms.…
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CBS News
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A police officer thought he had a muscle cramp. He ended up fighting for his life.
Dr. Christopher K. Mehta, the cardiac surgeon who treated Johnson, said that Johnson only survived “because everything happened with extraordinary speed and teamwork.” Aortic dissections resemble other heart conditions, and aren’t always recognized right away, even though they need rapid treatment. Once in the operating room, aortic dissection repairs “are among the most complex emergency…
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TIME
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What’s the Easiest Way to Start Strength Training?
Strength training offers “a multitude of benefits,” says Craig Hensley, associate professor of physical therapy and human movement sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Research keeps revealing them: One study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine linked strength training to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, lung cancer, and…
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Chicago Sun-Times
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U.S. life expectancy hit an all-time high in 2024, CDC says
In 2024, about 3.07 million U.S. residents died, about 18,000 fewer than the year before. Death rates declined across all racial and ethnic groups, and in both men and women. Heart disease remained the nation’s leading cause of death, but the death rate due to it dropped by about 3% for the second year in…
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CNN
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Why the mid-30s are a major turning point for men’s heart health
The report, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, followed more than 5,000 adults from young adulthood and found that men reached clinically significant levels of cardiovascular disease about seven years earlier than women. “Heart disease doesn’t happen overnight; it develops over years. One of the things I think oftentimes people aren’t…
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