Fewer side effects, improved chances of healing: the goal of precision medicine is to provide patients with the most individualized treatment possible. This requires a precise understanding of what is ...

The landscape of cancer treatment changed forever in 1998, when U.S. authorities approved the first genetically tailored precision cancer therapy. The drug, Herceptin, zeroes in on the activity of ...

From small ions to large molecules, cellular gates control what can pass in and out of cells. But how one such gate, called ...

AI is remaking health care – and that includes gene-based precision medicine, among other types of rapid advances in treatment. The growing field of GenAI, or genetic AI, uses advanced algorithms ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The precise delivery of cancer drugs to tumors has remained one of medicine's most difficult challenges. Traditional chemotherapy affects the entire body indiscriminately, while ...

The human brain is one of the most intricate organs, with billions of neurons arranged in highly specialized regions. Treating neurological disorders is challenging because many conditions arise from ...

Two cancer drugs — currently approved for the treatment of melanoma — were able to treat a rare type of brain cancer called PCP, or papillary craniopharyngioma, researchers reported in a study ...

Scientists in Switzerland have created a robot the size of a grain of sand that is controlled by magnets and can deliver drugs to a precise location in the human body, a breakthrough aimed at reducing ...