The recommendations published in Nature Reviews Cancer are the result of a concerted focus by the Appendix Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (ACPMP) Research Foundation to better understand the disease that afflicts an estimated 3,000 new patients across all age groups each year. The incidence could be higher because of the challenges accurately diagnosing the disease and identifying the tumor type, the researchers noted.

A new program leveraging the phone to increase treatment access for college students experiencing eating disorders is expanding after a pilot program’s positive results at the University of Kansas where most participants saw recovery.

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Weill Cornell Medicine, and The Rockefeller University identified a vulnerability that opens the door to new treatments.

A new MIT study in Cell Reports shows that enhancing activity of a specific component of ‘NMDA’ receptors normalizes protein synthesis, neural activity and seizure susceptibility in the hippocampus of fragile X lab mice.